we need to stop looking for male allies.
we can't change men. they cannot help us tldr in the bottom
The situation that women in the middle east are experiencing today is worse than it was for women in ancient Greece and Mesopotamia, roughly 3000 years ago
women today even marry earlier than their ancient predecessors there are more child brides, more human trafficking, and even less protective rights for women. and these persecutions are legitimized by the world's largest religion today, which only keeps growing in population, power, and legal jurisdiction. the desire for human rights has only gotten larger among women in every culture. The fight for freedom has been a constant and unwavering battle for women. feminism has continued to bloom exponentially, yet our status didn't really change, every improvement is from advanced technology and the struggle of women before us we don't give the women before us enough credit. every luxury we experience today is because they died for us. but I think the reason we're stagnant is because our socialization. women are taught to cater to men, so even our feminists want to direct our feminism towards our oppressors, "convincing them" to not be sexist. fighting to change their minds in hopes that it will make our situation better. that's the problem. those men aren't just sexist because they're delightfully ignorant, they're sexist because the world caters to them. like our feminists that work to forgive them and change minds. women have been preaching feminism to men since feminism existed. they were the first people women preached it to. There is a vastly unintuitive irony in the feminism that continuously revolves around changing minds when men shouldn't have had a different opinion in the first place. men aren't victims here. if they could undo their socilization they would. But they won't because that would require being treated equally, and they're not. they could never fathom being in a woman's shoes, so they will never completely empathize it hurts to know that the men you are taught to trust want to defend the patriarchy in an act of self-preservation, but they do. that's why even nice men seem eerily out of character when you bring up feminism. that's why we need to cut them out. never talk to them again in situations outside of work or survival. the oppression of women is unlike any other. a woman is oppressed in every man's life so long as he was born. He saw firsthand the oppression for 10,000 years and didn't do anything about it. men make up 80% of the government on average. every single liberation for women came from 20% of women. it came from women threatening men, it came from women demanding for a crumb of liberation instead of asking nicely. It came from solidarity and working together, strikes, campaigns and being unrelenting. those who think men can change their minds don't understand how deeply ingrained sexism is everywhere. in every culture, in every point in history, in every corner of society, by every race, nationality, ethnicity, family, friend women were considered oppressed. this is 50% of the human race that makes up less than 1% of written history.
if men could be allies, they would've done so already STOP TRYING TO CHANGE MEN. WE CAN ONLY CHANGE OURSELVES. WE CAN ONLY SEPARATE
GO 4B. FOCUS ON OTHER WOMEN
tldr: women's liberation has only gotten worse for women in the middle east, Even though the feminist movement has only gotten bigger. If feminists cannot change their husbands, fathers or sons minds, then we cannot expect to them to undo their socialization even in theory. Women are socialized to cater to men, and even our feminism is directed towards trying to change men. But if men wanted to, then they would've already
