Thanks for taking the time, I appreciate the thought-out response. I completely see where you're coming from, and I hope I didn't sound too critical of you personally.
I do just want to comment on one tangent:
> However there was no one cultural atrocity which affected all women.
I don't think this is as big a difference as you do. There is no Holocaust, no singular event of great subjugation, in the history of African Americans.
The Atlantic slave trade and the ensuing institution of racial slavery wasn't an event. It happened day by day, one ship, one beating, one auction, one rape, one lynching at a time, generation by generation, for hundreds of years, well into the last century.
It is the same situation with women. No, no one ever decided to round up all the females and shoot them; but day by day, one gospel, one edict, one rape, one revisionist history at a time, backed up by very real violence, women have had their natural rights to life and liberty and property and justice neatly excised and kept in a box for safekeeping. In nearly every civilization for ten thousand years of recorded history.
If we don't call that an atrocity, it is only because the word is not large enough to contain such atrociousness.
I do just want to comment on one tangent:
> However there was no one cultural atrocity which affected all women.
I don't think this is as big a difference as you do. There is no Holocaust, no singular event of great subjugation, in the history of African Americans.
The Atlantic slave trade and the ensuing institution of racial slavery wasn't an event. It happened day by day, one ship, one beating, one auction, one rape, one lynching at a time, generation by generation, for hundreds of years, well into the last century.
It is the same situation with women. No, no one ever decided to round up all the females and shoot them; but day by day, one gospel, one edict, one rape, one revisionist history at a time, backed up by very real violence, women have had their natural rights to life and liberty and property and justice neatly excised and kept in a box for safekeeping. In nearly every civilization for ten thousand years of recorded history.
If we don't call that an atrocity, it is only because the word is not large enough to contain such atrociousness.