The wording suggested to me that the writer thinks most of the "worse things [that] happen to women every day" in other, more thirdworldy countries (where "much of the struggle for women's rights today is taking place"). But maybe that's just my reading.
It also seems to me to suggest that the relatively less severe indiginities suffered in the described tweets are being touted as the primary reasons that feminism is necessary in the West, rather than secondary and tertiary reasons to the more severe problems women face thanks to discrimination (poverty, rape, domestic violence, and homicide). I think in this sense I prefer the approach of microaggressions.com regarding the small forms of discrimination that women and minorities face every day -- not as "Someone said something mean to me in the 80s, so feminism is necessary" but rather "these are small parts of larger problems."
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Date: 2012-03-15 08:28 am (UTC)It also seems to me to suggest that the relatively less severe indiginities suffered in the described tweets are being touted as the primary reasons that feminism is necessary in the West, rather than secondary and tertiary reasons to the more severe problems women face thanks to discrimination (poverty, rape, domestic violence, and homicide). I think in this sense I prefer the approach of microaggressions.com regarding the small forms of discrimination that women and minorities face every day -- not as "Someone said something mean to me in the 80s, so feminism is necessary" but rather "these are small parts of larger problems."