Why does the world have a vendetta against Women?

Question

Main Entry: ven·det·ta
Pronunciation: ven-'de-t&
Function: noun
Etymology: Italian, literally, revenge, from Latin vindicta -- more at VINDICTIVE
1 : BLOOD FEUD
2 : an often prolonged series of retaliatory, vengeful, or hostile acts or exchange of such acts

To know the definition of the word VENDETTA may be helpful in answering this question. Simply put, in the west the voting rights of women were not inacted until 1965. In third world countries, only recently have women been allowed to vote. Women have their rights violated everyday.
Rape has been used as a weapon of war fairly recently in Rwanda and Sierra Leone to name a few. In many countries women are beaten senselessly (Russia, Pakistan and South Africa) and the government refuses to intervene.Women are being trafficked in Nigeria and Thailand as sex slaves and forced into prostitution, and the traffickers go unpunished!

In mexico women have their right to work taken from them on the basis of their reproductive capabilities! This is a global problem not just relegated to the Middle East and the United States is guilty too. Here women do not recieve equal pay. In some companies maternity leave is non-existent. Women are systematically beaten and killed. They are disappearing every day. Women are constantly being fed lies that we are too fat (or too skinny). That we aren't smart enough (HARVARD ring a bell?). Women are coerced into beleiving that showing skin equals control...consider the bevy of bimbos in rap videos or the pop princesses in minis and midriff shirts, boppn their heads to and fro like retarded automatons. This is the society we live in. In Mexico rape victims are denied a legal abortion. I could go on for HOURS. And that is why I posed this question, because this problem exists.

Answer 1

Please!!!! Grow up!!!!

Answer 2

Well, I agree that women in the Third World are being brutalized in many cases. Genital mutilation, breast ironing, and other horrors- sex slaves are real and are being taken daily - this is worldwide.
I really don't know what to say- but I observe that most of the MEN who have answered so far have been very defensive, told you to shut up, said you don't have an argument, bla bla bla bla blaaaaaa.
This is one man who says you DO have a point, though I think that in the West women have come a long way. It's better here than in the Third World. So go out and help those women.
One note: As a musician and a man, I can tell you that there are equal numbers of male bimbos strutting their stuff, showing their abs, and acting like complete idiots for the allmighty dollar.
I hope that's not equal rights.

Answer 3

Clearly people responding don’t agree with your basic premise. In most Western industrialized cultures, women have full rights and opportunity. In fact the pressures and incentives to find competent people for any job and position are so high that narrowing available, compete people by any definition (such as sex, religion, race, etc.) is simply not practical, because competent people are too difficult to find.

What is driving your questions is unknown, but it is certainly not the reality of the West.
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1893 New Zealand
1902 Australia
1906 Finland
1911 Iceland
1913 Norway
1915 Denmark
1917 Russia, Canada
1918 Austria, United Kingdom (restricted)
1919 Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Czechoslovakia
1920 Belgium (local), USA
1928 United Kingdom
1932 Spain
1934 Brazil, Turkey
1937 Bulgaria

Answer 4

Wow - all those men who answered are obviously oblivious to the daily reality of women's lives. They are ignorant of the fact that in most cultures men have subjugated women since the dawn of time. Part of the answer is the tyranny of sexual dimorphism - that our natural size difference means that the larger asserts its dominance over the physically smaller and weaker. Of course this speaks poorly of humanity and its rule by brutality. Men also seem to believe that male is normal and female is not normal.

Another answer is in the idea of reproductive control and biology being destiny. Because women give birth, men try to control the reproductive process and therefore, the women.

Another culprit is the Industrial Revolution. Hundreds of years ago when everyone worked at home, there wasn't such a vendetta against women. As labor opportunities shifted to factories and cities, the erroneous idea developed that men should go to work and women should stay home. Men on all continents are threatened by women, especially smart women, whom they see as trying to take "our jobs."

Answer 5

Men have tried to exercise their so-called "supremacy" over women for thousands of years. Eventually, everyone got used to this. That is, until a few centuries ago. Now, in modern countries, women are considered equal to men. However, some male sexists have been unable to accept this. Thus, vendetta.

Answer 6

The world does not have a vendetta against women, its some retarded men, but not all men. Some believe that the man rules all women. If you talk to my wife she will tell you how I feel, by my actions towards her.

Answer 7

Society has always kept their foot on the weak. In most parts of the world that happens to be women. But not in the USA.

Answer 8

It goes back to the Genesis 3. The vendetta is Satan's and the sinfulness of man.

Answer 9

Because we have the power to rule with our sacred whole and have been using that to our advantage since the beginning of time...you ever heard the term ...p***y whipped, do you beleive that behind every great man there is a great woman? ...well than you know it's our punishment to pay the piper.

Answer 10

The world doesn't have a vendetta against women, just certain arab groups who believe that no one should see their faces for some weird *** reason.

Answer 11

What the hell are you talking about, in many western societies women are revered and romanticized.

In eastern ones women are considered lesser, but nobody is thinking of "punishing" women. That's just the way it is.