Why are old, grey men not capable of staying away from the rights of women?
The world is changing into a hostile place. Hostile for everyone? No. Despite all the old, grey men who whine about the ‘cancel culture’ that prevents them from saying the things they have said for 70 years, its still old, grey men who decide in this world. I am not always in favor of cancelling opinions, however, the world has always changed. Luckily - we can imagine the conversation in the Middle Ages where someone would discover the toilet and the sewage system, and would find opposition from others about this ridiculous new idea. That counts for ideas too. 70 years ago, in The Netherlands women could not go shopping without a signature of their father or husband. Only 150 years ago, black people were considered slaves. Things have changed and a lot of these changes were, luckily, in favor of the people who needed these changes most. But in this time, it seems as if old people want to grab the power back. The Netherlands have a conservative government, more worried about ‘the right to barbecue’ than climate change, the UK chose Boris Johnson as its Prime Minister, Hungary elected a party that fights lgbti-rights and the US did a pretty serious experiment with a leader who was conservative, right-wing and crazy.
The cartoon above, made in Egypt (https://cartoonmovement.typepad.com/.a/6a014e5f5d3c7c970c01b8d2a5d648970c-750wi) makes absolutely clear that the things that men take for granted, like showing of their body everywhere, can lead to danger for women. The same situation in which a man is oerfectly safe, will make a woman be very much unsafe.
Despite all the political realities, in fact most people are pretty progressive when it comes to things as women rights. Most people want to fight climate change. A lot of people are in favor of helping migrants, of giving lgbti people more rights and safety. And, a lot of people want to give more rights to women as well. And this remains very much needed.
But democracy is still dictated by the few. Even if the majority of the Americans is in favor of the right of abortion, the Supreme Court might make an end to this. The way in which American conservatives deal with abortion is frankly disgusting. These rules are not meant to safe lives. If that was the case, it would be a better option to forbid weapons. Also, in my opinion, a life is not just a heartbeat. A life is a chance to make something of it. A woman who was been raped, or gets pregnant by an accident or is pregnant of a kid that will never have a good life due to a handicap, will not be able to give her kid a real life. Especially victims of rape are suffering a mayor blow. Of course, this happens by the same people who also think that if they dress sexy, they are almost guilty of their own rape. It’s enraging, this logic. The rules that are being made in this world, make it impossible for women to be who they want to be, without fearing for men to rape them and take their right of abortion away from them.
I don’t want to go into why I think that abortion should be a right. Others can explain that much better than I can. But I do need to express my absolute anger about the way that women rights are treated around the world.
In this graph, we clearly see the support for abortion. Only 32% of the Americans (according to this poll, so of course we have to take it with a grain of salt) want to further limit the right to abortion. And we need to understand, that this right is already under conquest. The case of Texas makes this absolutely clear. A minority rules the majority, because of their way of thinking, because of rules that were made to favor them.
But also in The Netherlands, abortion is always a difficult subject. Some parties, that are needed in coalitions, are against it. In the Dutch law, you still commit an abortion. Of course, there is a right to it, but its still punishable by law. It would not take much to change that back. Not that a majority wants that, but a majority in parliament is not the same as a majority in the country. Lobbies of old, grey man are often stronger than the majority. And that is disgusting.
Roe v Wade, and the possible overturning of it by the Supreme Court, is example number so-many of men worldwide trying to gain back the control that they always had and never lost, but sometimes seem to have to give away a bit to young people, with new fresh ideas, and even worse, women and minorities. Taking away rights of people has nothing to do with democracy. Its disgusting.
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