Do you find that as our rights increase, respect declines?

Question

Please don't go off on me for this, I'm just throwing it out there. now, I cherish my right to vote and everything, but it seems like as our rights as women increase the respect men have for us decreases. Women in America were never treated as bad as women in the middle east. We couldn't vote and stuff, but men held a high respect for women. Sexual harassment was much less prevalent then. Do you find this to be true?

Here's an example of what I'm talking about. i was at a party last year and some guy threw money at me and told me to dance for him. I kicked his butt and put him to shame, lol. but I found it very rude and degrading. If you look back 200 years ago, something like that wouldn't have happened. It was socially unacceptable.

No need to get so uptight Object of its ire. you can settle down. It was simple question. People like you are the reason feminists are viewed as radical nutcases.

Answer 1

No, I don't agree that respect declines with better rights, if anything it increases.

It's certainly true that women are not babied, patronised, treated as bargaining chips in marriage, but is any of that stuff really respect? It seems more like objectification to me.

Women in the workplace are treated more like men - in other words coworkers and competitors. That doesn't always mean they are treated nicely (like the typing/marriage pool girls of the 1950's). Once again, not a matter of respect but objectification.

By the way, regarding your comments on how the Middle Eastern countries treat women, it varies greatly between different nations, and in fact the deaths caused by domestic violence in Europe and the US are comparable (in some cases worse) on a case by case basis.

As for sexual harassment being better/worse - before the 1960s sexual harassment wasn't even a concept -in that those words hadn't even been used together in any meaningful way. It was absolutely socially appropriate in the 1950s for men to behave in ways which would now end them up at an employment tribunal, so that has changed substantially for the better.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

"Sexual harassment was much less prevalent then. Do you find this to be true?"

Uhhhhh...noooooo...are you JOKING???
Were you born yesterday?

On every count, the REVERSE of what you suggest is actually true. How did you come to these inane assumptions in the first place???

Here's an example of what I'm talking about. i was working at a job in the late 1980's (a restaurant/bar) and whenever the waitresses would go to the bar to get their orders the bartender would grope their breasts while they bent over to take the drink and plant it on their serving tray. The man's boss and proprietor of the established was standing right next to him, and did nothing. I later learned that the proprietor also groped the waitresses at every available opportunity.

Umm...I found it very rude and degrading. It was a human and civil rights violation.

If you look back 200 years ago, or even 15 years, something like that would have happened. It was socially acceptable.

Do yourself a favour and educate yourself.

Answer 4

To begin with, I don't agree that sexual harrassment was 'less prevalent then' ... in fact I cannot think of a time during my nearly forty years in the workforce when sexual harrassment wasn't prevalent, including today.

What has changed is that the people who are harrassed now have means of officially complaining and having their complaints taken seriously.

Apart from that, overall, I have to say 'no'. I feel that respect for women has increased throughout my lifetime.

When I first became interested in politics, it was unthought of that a woman could be the leader of a successful country. Since then, we have had women leaders in many nations.

Women were once not considered to be suitable for executive positions within most business organisations, unless they were related to the company owners. Now it is not usnusual to find women at every senior, even board level, in many companies.

Issues such as child care receive much more attention from the media and politicians than they did when I was a young woman, at which time it was assumed that all women with children would simply fade out from public life and stay home with the kids, regardless of their own choice.

The fact that women choose to work outside the home, or inside it, to marry or not, to be financially independent or not, has permeated the consciousness of our society to a great extent.

IMO, there are some ways to go, but I would say overall the level of respect has increased enormously. I doubt anyone who lived before this era would recognise the lives of women now.

Cheers :-)

Answer 5

Don't confuse respect with patronization in the good 'ol days. Women were treated as less important (other than in the kitchen). Many men still refer to adult females as "girl" as a way to devalue them.

Sexual harassment, child abuse, rape and so on occurred before the 1970s. It just wasn't reported very often.

If a woman in 1907 had said she wanted to be President of the USA, she would have been laughed and booed off the stage. (Heck, she couldn't even vote or own her own property.) Today, the leading contender for the Democratic nomination for President is a woman. And, many of those who will vote for her are men.

Answer 6

You have a good point, it does feel like men just let the door go on you at the store, instead of holding like they used to.

They are not as respectful in many ways, BUT, prior to 1985 phoning the police for help from a husband's abuse was totally ignored, he owed his wife.

I don't know if I'd want to trade what we have now for what we used to have.

Too bad it couldn't be a little of both..lol It was nice to be treated with respect, but I do believe women have changed greatly too, lots don't deserve any respect the way they act.

sexual harassment should never exist..

Answer 7

Yes

The hardest thing women had to contend with was marriage which was expected. Marriage is still just as hard as it used to.

I think the histeria, just like today, that the few women suffering, must make everyone suffer to try and stop the few suffering. By using unjust laws and putting all men in the same bucket as the abusers.

We reap what we sow. Its only going to get worse before it gets better with women now having what they need yet feel the need to keep fighting, lieing and making up untruths to get special treatment. Not to mention all the special treatment that is in place and that will not be taken out of service until men are more oppressed than women were.

Answer 8

I agree with you, in fact a perfect example is that movie, Anchorman, just look at the way she is treated because she is the successful woman, due to the fact that she, as well as all women gained rights. Granted, the movie is set in the 70s, the same kind of behaviour can be seen today.

Answer 9

Holding doors open for women is not respect. That is courtesy. But, fighting to protect women's right to equal pay, for example, that is true respect. You should become better informed about what it was really like for women before we had rights. What you see in the movies is not reality. Sexual harassment was the least of women's worries then.

Answer 10

No. As our rights as women increase, the respect men have for us increases.