r/feminisms

I’m always disturbed by the fact that when feminists from more progressive countries criticize deeply patriarchal societies, the discussion often ends up focusing on the most comparatively trivial aspects instead of the actual legal oppression women face there.

For example: women being forbidden from leaving the house without a male guardian, daughters inheriting less than sons, unequal divorce laws where a man can divorce on request while a woman must prove abuse or otherwise cannot leave the marriage, or the fact that a woman’s testimony can legally count less than a man’s in court. In some places, if a woman is murdered for supposedly being “indecent,” the punishment is treated like a physical assault rather than murder etc etc.

People also tend to forget how rare actual legal equality between men and women still is worldwide. It’s sometimes acknowledged in vague terms like " woman dont have all their rights everywhere in the world" , but rarely with specifics about how extreme, absurd, and unjust these laws can be.

That’s also why a lot of manosphere rhetoric feels especially disconnected from reality in a world where women are still legally oppressed on such a massive scale. And yes, even in some legally patriarchal countries, you can still find “men’s rights” style movements online , social media influence is powerful like that( they watched too much americain mysoginist guys )

This post is mainly to remind people of the legal oppression women still face worldwide, and maybe to ask that feminist discourse center these realities more often especially when responding to masculinists.

THIS SHOULD BE A GLOBAL ISSUE NOT JUST A FEMINIST ISSUE.

AND “nuclear family” as a term made for you to have more babies and keep the american birth rate system up. it's easy to romanticize when you want to be in love or when you just want to think about liking someone else. america tried to make a profit off of that, especially after WWll. sociologists and historians note that the modern institution of marriage and the societal pressure to find a "soulmate" evolved alongside economic structures designed to incentivize nuclear families which historically supported the labor force and birth rates.

Honestly, it’s a puppy mill.

“soulmate” and “nuclear family” acting as a puppy mill term to normalize the exploitation of women and children directly relating to an active agenda to keep the birth rate up through “subtle” birth rate enhancing terms such as “soulmate” and “Valentine’s Day” yes capitalism is always involved but I’m focusing on the EXPLOITIVE AGENDA that should quite frankly be illegal