Setting The Women's Liberation Issue Straight

	posted by Adam on Thursday October 25, @11:00AM from the Men's-Inequality dept.
	I recently found this article written by Murray Rothbard, while it was written in 1970 it's just as true today (maybe even more so) and it's quite a read. In the article he makes the case that men are the real slaves, and implies this is due to women having a matriarchy over men. He makes such a good case it's just plain scary (is it the truth facing us?) It might be heretical but it's worth hearing him out. Oddly enough, the woman he talks to says she'd rather see a man than be one; is this proof that she knows men have it worse or was she just being polite? I don't know about you, but words fail me.

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Then & Now by Hawth on Thursday October 25, @03:04PM EST (#1) (User #197 Info) What's eerie is that, save for the use of a few outdated terms, this article could easily have been written yesterday. I think it dispels the notion that such arguments about men being, in certain ways, more "oppressed" is a claim that could only have been credible in the past 10 years or so, but certainly not credible in 1970. The basic conclusion I draw from this piece is that feminism was (and is) a largely superfluous religion conceived by opportunistic fanatics who hijacked a social revolution that would probably have occurred with or without their influence (albeit less dramatically). I prefer to steer clear of the question as to which sex has it "harder", since I think it's entirely a matter of personal opinion as to what constitutes as a preferable lifestyle. Is it better to be public property, or private property (if one must be property at all)? Is it better to devote your life to taking care of only your own home and family, or make a more public contribution which benefits many people's homes and families? Is it better to aggress, or to submit? Ultimately, these are all questions which each of us can only answer for ourselves, and we should avoid projecting our own values and opinions onto subsets of the population with whom we share common genetic traits. (And this concludes today's sermon!) ;-)

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