If you look at my Evoke page, you will see that I'm not a female. Unfortunately, I can't really put my two cents in without the possibility of what I say being misinterpreted. Certainly, there are advantages in the Western world for being born a female, but I speak for myself when I say that I'd die to be born a male in developing countries. Women appear to be deemed inferior because of tradition, their physical size, etc.
My focus here is not to regard the problem, what I have to do here is to focus on the future for women everywhere. Now, everything I write here is idealistic; there's no way we can really reach this perfect world everyone aspires for; there will still be wife-beating, rapes, and violence against women more or less around the world.
My vision for women everywhere:
- Completely without fear of violence, discrimination, social rejection, or otherwise in a humiliating position;
- The right to education, regardless of intelligence;
- The right to choose who she will marry.
- The right to choose what to do with her own body (under normal circ**stances)
- The right to a career, a family, a husband.
- The right to property, an estate, etc.
I'm sure there's more things like this I could come up with, but I'll stick with this for now. Here's a story of a girl who was liberated by the past's oppression:
Rachel has always lived in Afghanistan. She was born in 2001, unfortunately for her, as a woman. She couldn't help notice that her friends that were boys got to go to school, but her and her girl friends couldn't. She also noticed different things that made boys different from girls. She just accepted it and thought it was the way things were. Then, in 2011, outsiders came to that country and had a very large conference, something that she had never heard of. Then, a few days later, her mom woke her up and sent her off to school. From that point, things that she thought was normal ceased and was replaced with something else, completely changing her perspective and her paradigm on reality. She attended school and now, at 19, she's an undergraduate, well on her way to becoming a lawyer.
I have an interesting question: What if you were charged with a crime you didn't do, and the lawyer that saves her hide is a woman liberated by oppression, just like Rachel mentioned above? There's an interesting spin on perspective.
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