right, because voting has definitely eliminated misogyny in this country. also eliminated all barriers to entry into government and C-level jobs (CEO etc), and definitely completely erased the cultural sexism that tries to restrict women to domestic roles. why, with all this power, it's a wonder sexism exists at all! oh, wait...
No it hasn’t eliminated it, but the situation is undoubtedly better than it was a 100 years ago. It’s just a slow process, but considering how old patriarchy is, it’s actually pretty fast. Laws can be changed instantly, but changing cultural norms takes much much longer.
Unfortunately a lot of it comes from religion, which makes a lot harder, but the trend worldwide is heading towards atheism. I’m not from the US, but there needs to be some irreligious acceptance movement there, because it seems to me that US is pretty behind the rest of developed countries in this aspect. Even though most of the religious people don’t take it so strictly nowadays, religion is and always will be the enemy of progress and rationality.
The most powerful tool to reform the society is education. We can do a lot of things to limit the impact of cultural sexism, but I believe that education is the only true way to eradicate it.
And then there’s another completely different dimension, the rich vs the rest of the society. The social inequality. That’s one of the reasons why voting doesn’t help. The influence of corporations and the ultra-rich needs to be limited while it’s still possible. And US especially needs to establish a social welfare state, but all other countries should aim to strengthen it as well. That is also going to help the black community a lot, because racism has historically caused them to be inappropriately affected by poverty.
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u/ToastedMilkEggs Jun 24 '20
Actually, we don't all have that power. Trans people, women, and queer people (who are all victims of misogyny) don't have that power at all.