Well written @natureofbeing. I appreciate your thoughts on this matter. It's a tough, very confusing topic. As another woman, around your age, I can relate to how your younger- self felt about feminists. For the longest time I thought that feminists were a group of mean women that didn't let anyone ( I didn't make any connection to them being selective ) speak louder than them. It wasn't until I was much older that I realized there were and are some very good reasons why some women are so angrily passionate about what they think.
thanks @rebeccaryan, glad we've both "woken-up" although I wish it weren't necessary and that our world was as @macksby said - free, valued, and respected from our first breaths until death.
Exactly. I agree.
I do think there is a piece to it that we may not be able to fully change and that is the "pecking order" of our species. I think this hinges on intellectual evolution. Perhaps in another 500 years+ it will be different for everyone on our planet.