Are you questioning the motivation of those who push for equality of women or are you arguing that things are so messed up in the west that us westerners should concentrate on our own problems before trying to solve the inequalities of others?
I don't really get your point. I agree that the media focuses on issues that are highlighted by political agendas and that there is plenty that needs fixing in our own societies but surely we should all push for, and support basic human rights.
Are you saying that the lives of women in the west are often plagued with low self esteem and that they should concentrate on their own issues and forget the plight of others?
Surely, women have the right to make their own mistakes, enjoy their own successes and develop their own insecurities and their own achievements. Basic human rights is everyone's business. We are all memebers of the human race.
England in the 1830s was a deeply divided and unjust nation, with a stiffling class sysytem and only limited suffrage based on class, sex and education. However, William Wilberforce concentrated his considerable skills not on the social injustices of his own country but on the horrendous slave trade. He was eventually successful and within a generation slavery was banned in America. According to your argument, he sdould not have bothered. The subjagation of women in many parts of the world is just as big a problem as slavery was then and in just as much need of correction.
Are you questioning the motivation of those who push for equality of women or are you arguing that things are so messed up in the west that us westerners should concentrate on our own problems before trying to solve the inequalities of others?
I don't really get your point. I agree that the media focuses on issues that are highlighted by political agendas and that there is plenty that needs fixing in our own societies but surely we should all push for, and support basic human rights.
Are you saying that the lives of women in the west are often plagued with low self esteem and that they should concentrate on their own issues and forget the plight of others?
Surely, women have the right to make their own mistakes, enjoy their own successes and develop their own insecurities and their own achievements. Basic human rights is everyone's business. We are all memebers of the human race.
England in the 1830s was a deeply divided and unjust nation, with a stiffling class sysytem and only limited suffrage based on class, sex and education. However, William Wilberforce concentrated his considerable skills not on the social injustices of his own country but on the horrendous slave trade. He was eventually successful and within a generation slavery was banned in America. According to your argument, he sdould not have bothered. The subjagation of women in many parts of the world is just as big a problem as slavery was then and in just as much need of correction.