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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
Pop psychology aside, one of the undercurrents as to why developing countries have a host of problems with regard to food security, monetary resources, education, health & safety, etc., are related to the various rights and privileges denied to women and girls.
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Certainly. My extremely limited understanding of the history of western civilization seems to show that civil rights develop in time periods where there aren't more pressing matters (famine, plague, the Vandals) and when the form of government is both conducive and accepting to the related unrest.
I read somewhere recently that the best form of birth control for women in Afghanistan is to make it to the 8th grade. Good stuff.
Using modern third world countries as an example of today's civil rights struggle is completely rational... but it is my feeling that their situation only rides in the time machine of yesteryear that we (the US) just emerged from ourselves in the last century. I see a pattern.
It's easy for everybody to talk about how much progress we've made... but one need only look at the US Supreme Court load from the 1960s (Loving v. Virginia, Griswold v. Connecticut) to see how fucked up we were and for how long... and how we still have so much more to fix (Prop 8).
Civil rights may be in the problem space of a country's issues... they rarely seem to be in the solution space.