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    Great show with Gloria Steinem kick-ass women's advocate is on HBO2 right now! It's fucking horrifying to see how women used to have to live in this country just 1 or 2 generations ago. Here's a link to info on it. http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/glo.../synopsis.html
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    ^^^ What will things be like 50 years from now? Women are on the way up and most males are on the way down.

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    My mom told me about how things were so much harder for women in the 60's than we would imagine. For instance, back then if a woman wanted to have kids it was expected she would give up her career to stay at home. Not just that but married women had little rights and even had to get permission to get credit cards.

    I hope this ends up online or on DVD.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SweetNaughty View Post
    ^^^ What will things be like 50 years from now? Women are on the way up and most males are on the way down.
    I hope they're not on the way down. Why do you say they are on the way down?

    I was shocked as shit when she said she went to get her first apartment in NYC and they wouldn't rent to her. The landlords said that women really can't handle paying bills and if she does make enough for rent, she must be a whore! Unbelievable!
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    Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman to serve in Congress, said she faced greater challanges because of her sex..... then because of her skin color...... She was first to try many things...... Cool lady.


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Chisholm




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    ^^^That she even attempted to run was admirable much less winning!
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    Did you know that it was completely legal to rape one's wife until 1975!?!
    It wasn't even considered rape, because as his wife, she was considered his property and therefore he could have his way with her whenever he wanted. She had no right to refuse.
    This was the mentality just a few years before I was born. That still just blows my mind. This is just an example of the dramatic shift from my mother's generation to mine in the way women were viewed and treated by both society and the law.

    Among other brave and intelligent women, we have Gloria to thank for the fact that this is no longer the case.
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