Forum: Why do some men still think they can decide for women?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

By Phyllis McCorkle / Herald Forum

Many of you may not know who Gisele Pelicot is. Fifty men in France are on trial for raping her. Her husband of many years drugged her and had men come to their home and rape her.

Her husband admitted his crimes, but the 50 men did not think it was rape.

I started with this information because for the life of me I cannot understand why men think they have control over women. There is an 81-year old woman in Georgia who recently voted for the first time. Her husband would not let her vote before. He died early this year.

No man should make the rules or laws for women. If a woman wants to give me her opinion on birth control, abortion, day care, IVF, what kind of school she sends her child to or what she wants to cook for dinner, where she wants to go to college and lastly why she may choose not to have a child, she has that right because she is a woman with the same body parts as me.

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[ancianita]

1. Why? The depraved will to power, the will to be "better than."

This political context... that Trump creates the permission structure for depravity and pronounces it "good."

[valleyrogue]

2. Carole Pateman's "The Sexual Contract" and

Andrea Dworkin's Right Wing Women, both published in the 1980s, explain the mindset of males and "conservative" women.

They are both pertinent today.

[Skittles]

3. BECAUSE THEY CAN?

REPUKES MAKE SURE OF THAT

[travelingthrulife]

4. religion mostly

Millenia of tradition?