Look not to Feminism but to Science



Addressing one of the comments in this video. If I say that science has done more for women then feminism has or ever will. This is not stating that Feminism has done nothing for women.

I really believe that the moral zeitgeist will enable a social movement to happen, whilst the actions of that movement will largely be to push a pendulum that was moving anyway. They push the pendulum of equal rights with all their force so that the pendulum swings to the other side and the oppressed become the oppressors.

The enabler of women’s liberty is science. Science has enabled.

  1. The automation to a large extent of domestic duties.
  2. Healthier lives (less children are needed to ensure that some make it to adulthood).
  3. Making childbirth safer.
  4. A safer more prosperous society and workplace for women to work in. We have jobs now that never would have made it in the past.
  5. The pill, giving women control over their reproductive lives.
  6. Abortions (a medical field), giving women complete control over their reproductive lived (a right that men have yet to gain).
Posted under: Gender Issues, My Youtube Videos, Feminism
Posted on: Saturday, May 10, 2008 11:52 PM
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  1. Posted by: luckyvet on 5/11/2008 1:40 AM
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    Awesome work Argus, keep up the good work spreading the truth.
  2. Posted by: iwentdowntotheriver on 5/11/2008 1:40 AM
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    That science has enabled great things for men and women is not in doubt. Yet, you cannot equate men= science and women = feminism as you seem to have done. You seem to confuse the means to do something with the ends. The ends of female liberation are a truly egalitarian society, the means include politics, technological development and education. By your argument you could say that increased industrialization is the sole reason that workers were given more rights by the ruling classes. This is not true, the two are correlated, not causal.
  3. Posted by: Kailey on 2/16/2010 6:02 PM
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    The enabler of women’s liberty is science. Science has enabled:

    1. The automation to a large extent of domestic duties. (Yes, but the majority of the time, women are still expected to do them- how many men do you see using electrolux products in commercials? ironing? doing the dishes? talking about cleaning products? and if they ARE- they are shown to be doing it wrong (not that this is okay- but suggests that it is a woman's job to do it).
    2. Healthier lives (less children are needed to ensure that some make it to adulthood).- But you are still seen as weird or unfeminine if you don't want to get married or have children. Childless and unmarried women are often stereotyped- and questioned as to how they could be happy without a husband and child(ren)
    3. Making childbirth safer.- A lot of women still die- yes it is safer- but all medical practices are a lot safer due to sanitation. Even amputations and the like.
    4. A safer more prosperous society and workplace for women to work in. We have jobs now that never would have made it in the past.- Full of offices ripe with sexual harassment? Gee thanks! Women (despite having more degrees) are still lagging in certain fields- a lot of this having to do with the expected home lives of women- some of this is a woman's personal choice- they don't want high stress, long hour jobs so they can be better parents, but some is social stigma. Both men and women have benefited from technology, but again, feminism is not to be excluded from its role- as without women saying hey- we can do this too- there wouldn't be women in the workplace (apart from WW-II where women were seen as patriotic for having jobs).

    5. The pill, giving women control over their reproductive lives. The pill was not given to all women until 15 years after it was approved by the FDA- and was only available to women in marriages. It was through the efforts of feminists and women (and men) who believed in reproductive, social and educational rights, that it was eventually made available to all women.
    6. Abortions (a medical field), giving women complete control over their reproductive lived (a right that men have yet to gain). Men have the right to not have sex with a woman they don't want to have a child with, they also have the right to wear a condom. It is ALSO true that men tamper with birth control to trap women in pregnancy. While I don't agree with women having abortions without the consent of the father (or the father withdrawing his right to have an opinion), or mothers keeping their children from a father (unless there is a valid reason- endangerment to the child), men have all the reproductive control THEY choose to have.

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