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In reply to the discussion: White males make up only 30% of the US population. [View all]mucholderthandirt
(1,638 posts)I grew up in the 60s to 70s. Every face I saw, someone in an important position, was a white male for a goodly part of those decades.
1. They were.
2. They did lack experience in many areas.
3. Women would be hysterical in a crises, they can't lead.
Those were different times. Women didn't get the vote at all until a century ago, after black men. Women were restricted from many colleges and universities. They were restricted from many careers. They were basically the property of their father, and then their husband. For a long time women couldn't own property, or travel on their own.
It's easy today, when progress has been made, to forget that these were long, hard battles that sometimes took lives before changes came. Like slavery, women's rights were not easy wins. We're still in the fight for acceptance. It didn't end, it's morphed, in some ways we've gone backwards (Roe, for one).
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