Have you tried not making broad assumptions about people’s factual knowledge because they disagree with you?
I could have asked about the desirability of any other society with horrible oppression against women, like the Taliban regime, Saudi Arabia, Imperial China, or the U.S. in the 1950s, and the question would still be relevant: Would you enjoy living in a society where gender is a basis for differences of power?
Really, that’s your idea of “horrible oppression against women”? Yes, the 1950s were in many ways better then today, technology based on atoms was still progressing for one thing, and the system was a lot less dysfunctional in all kinds of ways.
technology based on atoms was still progressing for one thing
Sure, I suppose today’s particle accelerators count for nothing. But technological progress is a matter that may merit its own discussion in another thread. It’s the situation of women we’re discussing here.
And yes, the 1950s were terrible. A society before the pill meets every definition of “it sucks to be a woman.” Moreover, a society before legal abortion, before the recognition of marital rape, before massive access of women to universities and positions of power, before equal pay, before no-fault divorce, before sexual harassment was identified as such, and before widespread coeducation, is a society that oppresses women. Heck, I’m a man, and I’d have hated to live under those conditions.
Is The Handmaid’s Tale seriously a desirable world for you?
Have you tried reading history so you’re not constantly generalizing from fictional evidence?
Have you tried not making broad assumptions about people’s factual knowledge because they disagree with you?
I could have asked about the desirability of any other society with horrible oppression against women, like the Taliban regime, Saudi Arabia, Imperial China, or the U.S. in the 1950s, and the question would still be relevant: Would you enjoy living in a society where gender is a basis for differences of power?
Really, that’s your idea of “horrible oppression against women”? Yes, the 1950s were in many ways better then today, technology based on atoms was still progressing for one thing, and the system was a lot less dysfunctional in all kinds of ways.
Sure, I suppose today’s particle accelerators count for nothing. But technological progress is a matter that may merit its own discussion in another thread. It’s the situation of women we’re discussing here.
And yes, the 1950s were terrible. A society before the pill meets every definition of “it sucks to be a woman.” Moreover, a society before legal abortion, before the recognition of marital rape, before massive access of women to universities and positions of power, before equal pay, before no-fault divorce, before sexual harassment was identified as such, and before widespread coeducation, is a society that oppresses women. Heck, I’m a man, and I’d have hated to live under those conditions.