History of Feminism

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So I can't make comments on much of the content of the OP, but will speak generally here.

Having worked in the same places where there were prostitutes, working with the men who used them, made me both angry and depressed.

Knowing women who were in it and more than one who was kidnapped by gangs and having been threatened by one myself, and hyper aware...

And in one case, a girl I met was dragged cross country, raped for profit, not hers, of course, but finally dropped off when she was looking older, the abusive nature of some who used this trade is not surprising.

I am just one person, not a paid professional, and I came across too many women affected by this, and also men's violent fantasies, so I don't think by any stretch of the imagination that such views are unusual.

They are the underbelly of the continuum of male and female (and other pairings) that is universal, except we in the USA do examine this more than nations who consider this state of affairs normal and not a controversy or cause of outrage.

I've known more than one woman whose spouse frequented prostitutes, and not because they were not willing to have sex with them, and it really hurt the women and children to see that side of the man, as it didn't stop at the door of the home.

It's like an angry, snarling beast just beneath the surface, and is why for so many women, life in general and relationships, are minefields. You never know when it is going to explode and blow up all of one's preconceived notions of intimacy, family and society.

I've been fortunate that my experience has been more that of an observer. IDK why some women have revealed to me as much as they have, sometimes out of the blue and tell me their stories, not at meetings or social gatherings.

They just started talking and felt I was the one to whom it was safe to impart their life stories in public, no less. I don't go out of my way to advertise my views in public. But I have said before, that I feel as if part of my life on this planet is simply as a recorder of horrors and betrayals.

I empathize with people who are being treated as things, as it strips away so much of them and reduces their humanity.

IDK if this thread will get trolled or not, but can hear the complaints in my head from memory of those who feel it is their right to use people as things as their freedom. It's just there, words and sights in the back of my mind, so that I am constantly second guessing what another is going to find fault with, just as many of us have experienced.

That's my opinion, and there has been a lot in my life that made me furious and I don't deny that. And I see that someone took my words out of context and got a post hidden, obviously I was not posting with those voices to warn me to take all their things into account and avoid their wrath.

Keep working at it, HOF.