It’ll only take women three more centuries to gain equality, because conservatives in the U.S., Iran and Afghanistan and elsewhere don’t want equality at all.
women for “adultery,” which is often defined to include women who are raped. Maternal mortality and infant mortality rates are ticking up, in part because it’s awfully hard to go to the doctor if you can’t leave your house, and it’s awfully hard for female doctors to exist if women can’t go to university. It is hard to overstate just how unlivable Afghanistan has become for women—and how swiftly the world, and the U.S. in particular, has turned its back andIn the U.S.
Abortion is now criminalized or soon-to-be-criminalized in most Republican-led states. Outlawing abortion has been a human rights disaster: Women have. It’s entirely possible that some women have died because they couldn’t get the abortions they needed, and we simply don’t know about it.
I could go on . Anti-feminist leaders are in power in dozens of nations; anti-feminist movements have taken hold in dozens more, and are often tied to anti-LGBT rights movements. There is often an assumption that progress happens by sheer force of, well, progress—that people see their lives bettered and want to keep it that way; that once the ball gets rolling, it only picks up speed.
But that’s not really how it works. Every inch women have gained has been hard-won. Every extra year we’ve lived because we’ve fought for the rights to our own bodies, every bit of joy we’ve gotten from wanted children and love-based marriages, every minute we live free from abusive partners and are able to sustain our own lives, pay our own way, and choose our own course—every single crumb of that was a fight.
And at every moment, there were others fighting against women’s rights and feminist progress just as hard. Many of them are now sitting in elected office. Many of them are working overtime to cement their power, even against the broader will of the public.So yes, a lot is terrible. But no, despair is not an option—unless you want to lose. And I refuse to do that.
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