History of Feminism

I've never had the advantage of your longer viewpoint. Yet I am stull aware (for the most part, I have a lot to learn) of sexism and discrimination. In place of your longer viewpoint, I was lucky enough to grow up around many strong women. Almost all of the most important adults I knew in childhood were women who understood these issues as well.

That said, I have quite a few friendsmy age who didn't have that upbringing, who dealt with situations almost opposite of mine (and to clarify, I am referring to mostly straight white males here), and yet they have an awareness of these issues too. Anybody who truly cares, who wants to learn, can. It's up to the individual. To us, it's astounding that more people don't have that awareness, because as you look around at the tea party rhetoric, the supreme court's recent decisions, media coverage, treatment of female politicians, etc., the sexism in our everday life is painfully obvious. As far as I'm concerned, anybody who doesn't see it at this point is one of two things: incredibly sheltered and improbably clueless, or purposefully ignorant.