For 99% of the history of western civilization, this was 100% true. See: Every western religion ever. Just because things have been relatively okay for women during your short, irrelevant life (unless you happen to be poor, an immigrant, or a member of any other at-risk population outside of white suburbia,) doesn't mean that:
a) things will continue along that trend if people don't continue to demand change
b) that trends won't reverse if people don't continue to promote awareness
You're committing a serious case of historical fallacy, where you fail to realize that the only reason things are moderately okay for women today is because of the success of movements based in the feminist tradition. That's not to say that most young women today who call themselves feminists aren't retarded, because everyone in that generation is entitled and stupid, and none of them have probably even bothered to educate themselves about the historical context of the feminist struggle, read any of the major feminist literary works, and so on. Generation Y lives in a fucking bubble where they believe that history is irrelevant because their lives have been completely devoid of any real struggle.
What's your point? Yes, being a woman sucked in a lot of ways up until the last century or so (although being almost
anyonesucked up until the last century or so), nobody is denying that, but it's no longer the case and as such not particularly relevant, on relative terms, to the contradictory and destructive mess that is 21st century modern feminism, except in that it's arguably used to justify absurd demands as some kind of of historical payback against men for having once had all those advantages in different fields.
And there are a whole shitload of ways that life sucked (and still sucks) for men that don't apply to women. I'm sure women weren't complaining too hard about how oppressed they were when they were back in their village while their husband was being conscripted and marched off to get slaughtered in battle, and strangely enough I don't see a whole lot of modern feminists fighting to be included in the draft today. Do you think those women who were sitting on the lifeboats in the Atlantic while the men froze to death in the water when the Titanic sunk passed the time complaining about how sexist it was that they were given first place? Nor, when they fight so hard for "equal representation" in various careers, do they include those dangerous jobs which lead to men accounting for 98% of work place fatalities.
a) things will continue along that trend if people don't continue to demand change
b) that trends won't reverse if people don't continue to promote awareness
Cool, demand change in areas that genuinely still suck, I'm all for that, but a lot of the causes and theories promoted by modern feminism are, at best, pure intellectual garbage and, at worst, quite harmful. My personal favorite is Patriarchy Theory, which is pretty much tinfoil conspiracy territory with 'men' in place of 'jews' or 'secret societies.'
That's not to say that most young women today who call themselves feminists aren't retarded, because everyone in that generation is entitled and stupid, and none of them have probably even bothered to educate themselves about the historical context of the feminist struggle, read any of the major feminist literary works, and so on.
So we.... pretty much agree?
Oh and just for the record, the pay gap is a load of shit. Women are getting equal pay as long as you compare them to men who live similar lifestyles and work in similar positions, the gap comes from the larger number of men willing to sacrifice family/social life for climbing the career ladder. You can't just graph literally every member of each gender in any one career and compare them without taking into account any other factors.
