Why do feminists rewrite history?

Question

Why do feminists rewrite history?

You gotta love this feminist propaganda that tells us that only women have been oppressed when it was men who had to work at back breaking manual labor to provide for their women and children. In fact there was no meaningful work for women to do until only the last few decades where we have reached the point in this man-made world that we have all the creature comforts that we have today. This allowed women to enter the workforce with all the newly created cushy working conditions.

Another is the 'right to vote' which is incorrectly portrayed that ALL men had the right to vote when it was clearly the elite class landowners who had that right. The common man and common women received the vote got the vote at the same time in most Western nations, in the US it was a few years difference.

I touched a nerve with a thin skinned person here who reported me not because I violated the rules of the board, but because the above stated facts were too much for that person to deal with.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AvsTlvCdLYHevmFRHH30ifPSDH1G;_ylv=3?qid=20130123080558AAdlk7w

Lets deal with this now. What do you all think.

Answer 1

Don't ask a feminist about this, especially here. They are so well-indoctrinated and delusional that you'll never get a subjective answer. They also have 0 understanding of men's rights because they will never believe women are anything other than victims.



"Sommers argues that the feminist movement, especially in the field of education, has moved away from the original goals of "eq­uity" feminism (with which Sommers identifies) toward what she calls "gender feminism."



"Gender feminists in academia are rewriting history through their own ideological lens, failing to expose their stu­dents to the great literature and art of the Western tradition, and often encouraging a mushy, therapeutic atmosphere rather than teaching students how to write and think analytically."

-Christina Hoff Sommers

http://www.newoxfordreview.org/briefly.jsp?did=0994-briefly



Feminists in acedemia write their own pretend version of history so they can indoctrinate students.

Answer 2

Feminism has never claimed that only women were oppressed...which explains why N.O.W. is a vocal supporter of gay rights too.



Sort of makes your whole argument go right down the toilet.



Edit:

Women weren't kept away from low paying "woman's work" jobs that did not make a livable wage, they were kept from getting jobs that men wanted and that made livable wages. Without a livable wage, women were pretty much stuck having to depend on males to support them.



Edit:

As soon as women were allowed to work factory jobs, they did...and they did it with gusto. There are so few women who were allowed to make an impact in the working world that you're having to delve into BC dates in order to find enough to make a paragraph out of. Nice!



I'm sorry but a bird in a fancy cage is still a caged bird. Protection against a person's will is not protection, it's coercion and abuse of power. However, you are very mistaken if you think women didn't toil just as hard as men did. If you've never hand washed a whole family's laundry by hand, then you have no idea what you're talking about. That is just as much "back breaking" as any other job you mentioned.



@Invisible Man

Here is what FAIR, the media watchdog, has to say about Christina Hoff Sommers and her work against feminism:

http://fair.org/extra-online-articles/the-stolen-feminism-hoax/

Answer 3

Women had to work in the fields throughout history, especially lower class women. They had children and continued to work.



women also went into service - in fact their FAMILIES often put them into house hold service. As maids and as nannies- as yes they were paid less then their male colleagues and had to leave once they gave birth to children. The males were not expected to leave. But they found jobs else where- and many choose not to marry for fear of losing their jobs.



they worked and were paid less than their make counterparts. Women worked in Cotton Mills and before legalisation stopped them working down coal mines.



women in poorer families married later in life so they could help with family businesses and provide an extra wage for the family.



upper class women did not work as it was seen as a peasant women's job to be toiling away.



there were very few female doctors around - the ones you mention are the exception rather than the rule.



and women were seen on the same level as slaves. In fact one medieval writer( his name is last to history) said that even cows were more valuable than women.



on the other hand women could not inherit properties ( only in extreme circumstances) and she could not claim custody of her children - the father always gained that favour. Pay was also less, and they were not allowed to take certain jobs like doctors ( the examples you give are very rare exceptions) Politicians and a lot of universities would not accept women .



I have come across more men than women who claim the women stayed at home and claims that men were the only grafters, and have tried to make women look inferior.



you might want to read more historical texts and take a look at some more recent historic works.

Answer 4

That question is rewriting history, actually. It's incorrect. But moving on.



"it was men who had to work at back breaking manual labor to provide for their women and children"



--Women did back breaking manual labor too. If you think all women were sitting in a Jane Austen novel, you are mistaken.



"In fact there was no meaningful work for women to do until only the last few decades"



--Nonsense. Farming isn't meaningful? Nursing isn't? Teaching isn't? Making and cleaning clothes, preparing and storing food, gathering wood and lugging water, rearing children, leading, fighting, making pots and pans ... One could go on and on and on.



The answer is, you rewrite history. Actually, you probably just have very limited knowledge of it. Too limited to even qualify as rewriting, since that implies having knowledge of what actually happened.



Some feminists certainly rewrite history. There are millions of feminists. They do it probably because, like you, they are ignorant.



ADD: No, women were not allowed to be doctors. It was quite a fight.