Bruh, you made one critical error, they are not our women. They have made that plainly clear, they belong to themselves and that's it. Too many of these modern women want it both ways. They want to old standards of chivalry and being protected (kept women), but what to hoe it out and do whatever they want without consequence. It can't be both ways. Its really that simple. If you want to be a strong independent woman who is equal to a man, don't cry when you get treated equally.
Also, for me, there is very little that would cause me to get in a physcial fight with someone. I got way to much to lose and nothing to gain. But I also don't keep friends who are wild in the streets. All of us got too much to lose to be stupid. I won't ever fault a man for walking away. Who cares of some random people who you will most likely never see again think you are a punk for backing down. What do you have to gain by trying to impress them?
This is a complicated situation. Women did fight for liberation, emancipation and this made them autonomous. They have done so because at the root in the first and perhaps second wave they were right.
It went to extremes, and the generations after suffer from the choices made by those who came before them. All this was orchestrated by a few with dramatic effects. We to understand that external factors have played part in this, as an agenda.
In my estimation it started in the early 60s after the GI Bill debacle.
The GI Bill and the Racial Wealth Gap
“The original GI Bill ended in July 1956. By that time, nearly 8 million World War II veterans had
receivededucation or training, and 4.3 million home loans worth $33 billion had been handed out. But most Black veterans had been left behind. As employment, college attendance and wealth surged for whites, disparities with their Black counterparts not only continued but widened. There was,
writesKatznelson, “no greater instrument for widening an already huge racial gap in postwar America than the GI Bill.”
The sweeping bill following World War II promised prosperity to veterans. So why didn’t Black Americans benefit?
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"Lesbian mothers helped create a foundation of single parent families which challenged the gendered stereotypes of motherhood and hood. They helped single mothers liberate themselves from the constrictions of the traditional nuclear family with its built-in heteronormativity. […] In Separate Roads to Feminism: Black, Chicana and White Feminist Movements in America’s Second Wave, Benita Roth explains how the history of racism in the U.S. played an important part in creating this divide. Instead of arguing about a woman’s right NOT to bear a child, these minority women focused on how to combine motherhood with feminism and equality. They wanted to change the assumption that single motherhood was a pathology and/or a punishment. Single mothers of all ethnicities could relate to this conversation. […]."
(Elizabeth Ryan, "Transforming Motherhood: Single Parents' Liberation,Transforming Motherhood: Single Parents' Liberation In The 1970s, (2015). Wayne State University Dissertations.1409).
“Second. The time may have come when the is sue of race could benefit from a period of " benign neglect. 11 The subject has been too much talked about. The forum has been too much taken over to hysterics, paranoids, and boodlers on all sides. We may need a period in which Negro progress continues and racial rhetoric fades. The administration can help bring this about by paying close attention to such progress - - as we are doing - - while seeking to avoid situations in which extremists of either race are given opportunities for martyrdom, heroics, histrionics or whatever. Greater attention to Indians, Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans would be useful. A tendency to ignore provocations from groups such as the Black Panthers might also be useful.”
US Pres counselor Dr D P Moynihan cites 1839 Brit rept on Canada, which described country as having grown more competent and capable of self‐govt through many yrs of ‘benign neglect’ by GB, as source of phrase ‘benign neglect,’ used in memo to Pres Nixon on US Negroes, int
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(Daniel P. Moynihan to President Nixon, January 16, 1970)
“At the height of the civil rights movement in 1965, when a quarter of black families with children were headed by women, Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote in a report to President Johnson that this growing matriarchy was an important cause of poverty among black Americans. Mr. Moynihan, then a White House aide, created a furor, accused by many of blaming the victims for their distress.
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Today, 18 years later, virtually half of black families are headed by single women, and 55 percent of black babies are born to unmarried mothers.”
A historian annotates "The Negro Family: The Case for National Action" on its 50th anniversary.
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(The Atlantic, The Moynihan Report
Daniel Geary, September 15, 2015)
"Federally Mandated Destruction of the Black Family: The Adoption and Safe Families, by Christina White, 2006"
By Christina White, Published on 01/01/06
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“The Racist Roots of Welfare Reform American welfare policy historically targeted poor black families”
American welfare policy historically targeted poor black families.
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(The New Republic, 2016)
“BREAKUP OF BLACK FAMILY IMPERILS GAINS OF DECADES”
· Page 20 nov. 1983 — Some people believe that the man-in-the-house rule has contributed to family breakup by forcing fathers to leave the home. Others disagree.
"For many years, the nation's primary welfare program, Aid to Families with Dependent Children, denied benefits to families if an adult male was in the house. That bar was stricken in 1968, and states were permitted, but not required, to cover two-parent families in which the would-be breadwinner was unemployed or underemployed. Some people believe that the man-in-the-house rule has contributed to family breakup by forcing fathers to leave the home. Others disagree."
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(Nov. 20, 1983 The New York Times Archives)
"Public rhetoric often decries a societal retreat from marriage – that it is an increasingly obsolete institution…”
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“The 1950s have been described as the “golden age” of marriage in the United States and marriage has declined since the 1960s (c00ntz 2000/1992; Cherlin 2009/2004). In this paper, we take a longer view of the history of marriage by sex and race, describing trends among those never married at age 35 and age 45 and older, and historical median ages at first marriage using Decennial Census data. We find that the 1950s and 1960s were an anomaly for men and women given the high proportions married at young ages. Race differences are particularly interesting, as black women were more often married than white women prior to World War II, yet since the 1980s, have been increasingly less likely to be married."
This paper views the history of marriage by sex and race, describing trends among those never married at age 35 and age 45 and older.
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(Cencus Gov).