Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man?

Question

Do you agree with this quote by Margaret Mead?

Answer 1

I read Mead's quote for the first time in GWS months ago as part of a similar question and to me it seemed so clear cut that I couldn't believe anyone could object to it. I still think that. It's dead obvious that personal freedom is very much a function of others being free too.

The men who find this concept so objectionable are not thinking of freedom they are thinking of privilege from relative advantage and power. They are so hung up on this that they don't get it that they are not free themselves.

Answer 2

Studies show that in developing countries education programs that target only male children do little good on the whole. Only programs that educate both boys and girls succeed in that average income goes up, quality of living goes up and in some cases crime rates go down.

So yes I agree with the statement.

I agree with the above poster also. Women do want tough guys. Women's roles have become more neutral but men's haven't changed that much.

Answer 3

A woman does not need feminism to be independent in thought or deed; never let a word take on a personality.  All you have to do is just speak up; you know let them know how you feel; most men they need us women to speak up; otherwise how are they going to know.  A woman does not need to be a feminist to do that.  I'm a woman and an anti-feminists; I speak up all the time; it frees the chains of misunderstanding, keeping back; holding in so on and so forth; a woman need not be a feminist to do that.

Answer 4

i'm not sure, in a way yes, because when a woman is liberated she is admitting that men have kept her down and had power over her and that could be liberating.

Answer 5

She's right.

Higher maternal education does wonderful things for her children, both male and female.  Thanks to a liberated mum, the sons and daughters are more likely to get an education themselves, and far less likely to die young.

Answer 6

I agree. Similarily, every time we constrain a woman into doing something, we constrain a man into doing the opposite.

Answer 7

Nope

EDIT:  "liberating" women mainly/mostly benefits women, and doesn't benefits or  "liberated" men in anyway.  

Common sense.

In fact, women in modern society have rights and benefits that men don't even have and less responsibility in some area.

Answer 8

It depends on what you mean by "liberate."  I'm lefthanded, artistic and hypersensitive.  Women still want tough, insensitive men (trust me on this.)

While American women are "liberated" and their roles change, men are still stuck in highly designated roles.

Answer 9

I totally agree.  

No one is free when others are oppressed.

Answer 10

Yes because in the same way that some women wouldn't be happy i their sterotype, neither would the men.

Answer 11

YES!!.  How could the average western family make it without two incomes?  In a household with men making less than six figures on one job that man would be required to work two jobs in order to keep up with inflation. I don't know how people can ignore how much feminism has done already to liberate us men-folk.

Answer 12

YES I DO.  

Very perceptive.

She was one smart cookie whose work was groundbreaking.