I don't know about you, but I am constantly bombarded with anti-feminist opinions that I can only consider hateful propaganda. I seem to be always reading (or hearing on radio talk shows)that feminists are out of hand and are tearing apart the fabric of society. These opinions make it sound like there is no need for feminism, which they tend to describe as being perpetrated by a bunch of ugly women who hate men yet wish they were men themselves.

All you have to do is look at how women have historically been mistreated not only by men but by society to realize that the roots of feminism go beyond a dislike of men. Indeed, you don't even need to go back in history, or even have to look at third world countries. Throughout all of industrialized and so-called "civilized" nations, there are laws and protocol being followed that institutionalize the mistreatment of women, to this day. Take the following two European laws that were only changed a couple months ago:

Until July 23, 2008, men in Italy could evidently rape women with impunity as long as the women could be proven to have been wearing tight pants. The reasoning being that nobody but the woman wearing the tight pants could get them off her, so therefore she must have wanted it and that meant it was legally impossible to rape her. Coincidentally, that changed the law in England on 7/22/08 making a man who kills his wife just as culpable as a man who kills a woman who isn't his wife. See News of the Weird for week of Sept 14, 2008, linked below:

http://www.newsoftheweird.com/archive/index.html

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