MonkeyCatcher
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Homosexual women are no way near as discriminated against as homosexual men. People generally accept homosexual women a lot more readily than they will ever accept homosexual men (lesbians are "hot", gays are just "gross and unnatural", ask any guy and most will give you this answerJennifer said:If homosexual men are discriminated against, the same goes for women.
And I, also being a woman (glad we cleared that one upJust because it happens to women, doesn't mean it's right for it to happen to men. Your defence seemed to imply "well, it happens to everyone, deal with it, women!" In no instance is discrimination right. But again, the issue is discrimination against women, and I'm a woman, so I put it that way round.
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I obviously don't know much about the tabloids and such in the UK, but I know that here we have had two female prime-ministers in a row. Gender has never been an issue while our current prime-minister has been in charge (I was too young when the other one was to remember..). Most people agree that she has done a great job for our country, and I'm pretty sure that she is up in the polls at the moment (elections here are going to be within the next two months). This just may be another difference between my country and yours to add to the growing pile.And I would dispute your statement that it happens just as much to men. When Tony Blair became Prime Minister, no newspaper ran stories about his ability to cope, because he was male. Whereas every time Margaret Thatcher did something wrong (frequently, but that's beside the point) her gender became an issue.
I don't find, as a woman, that this happens to me /at all/. I can't ever have pinpointed a time where I was told or someone implied that I was worth less than men (not counting jokes, of course). The only times are when we have different standards (with females' lower) to get the same mark in PE, but I don't think that's unjust at all. We are both the same age, so our experiences shouldn't really be that different, so again, I believe it may just be a difference between our two countries.Obviously there are many instances, and your example of homosexuality is a good one, but for women, it's routine. Being male, you may not understand this, but it is an everyday occurrence for most women that they will be told, or it will be implied, that they are worth less than men.
I don't think that people believe it to be a problem /too/ difficult to change, but it will be a tough one. You first must change the way that people think, which I'm not sure about you, but sounds like a tough job to me. I suppose that they could begin teaching children at a young age that we are equal, it they are not doing that already, but that will do nothing for the old traditionalists who pass their "knowledge" down the family line.It will end when people stop saying that it's a problem too difficult to change. The same goes for other discrimination issues. I agree, as I said above, that there are probably more important things (the rabid feminist in me shrieks "no, nothing is more important!!"), but if people keep shifting the focus like this and saying "there are worse issues, deal with it" then nothing will ever get solved.
The fact is that there /are/ a lot more important issues to deal with. Helping the third-world countries, working towards world peace (and good ol' Geogre W. has really pushed our progression in this one back a few steps. Probably the only thing that he has, and will ever acheive), and of course discrimination upon other groups which /should/ take priority over that of women. As I have already stated, bias related to religon, race and sexuality is much more occurant than that of women. Women are not assualted purely for being women, which is sadly not the case for the groups that I listed above.
That's a /tad/ easier said than done. That is obviously the only way in which to slove the issue, but the problem is what steps do we take to get there?It's simple. Every single person in the world needs to realise that their gender, race, religion and age do not make them better than any other person. I may be young, foolish and idealistic, but that's what I want to see.
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