That sort of thing - hestoric event come course of events - happens everywhere. I live in Sunny SA, and I'm sure you're well informed on our historic events. So my reply is based on what happened on our side of the world:
Women played a huge part in our 'revolution'. They fought for freedom alongside men, who at the time found comfort knowing their women stood by them, and basically understood what the whole struggle was about. By all this I'm refering to the Black community. It was hard enough being opressed, segregating their own would've been suicide.
What I find ironic is that for the white community, it was the exact opposite. The men would make all military and political decisions while their wives would stay at home and make muffins!
So, I think (my opinion), that its all about what one to lose, and gain. The black community, was fighting for freedom, so everyone had so much to gain, because then eventually everyone would be free. The women and men of this community were aware that they weren't being treated farely.Whereas the white community, was so enthralled with power, that their women didn't care, they had nothing to to lose. They didn't see why they had to do anything, or make any decisions. It isn't because its in the nature of women not to rationalise as men would, or they were somehow fragile or weren't stern. They were desensitised because they chose to be.

" It isn't because its in the nature of women not to rationalise as men would, or they were somehow fragile or weren't stern. They were desensitised because they chose to be.''

Uhm.. so you are trying to say that they had to feel superior to the men back then.. Which yeah it's quite true. Oh you were saying something about desensitised because they chose to be, well I think it was optional well sort of because they lacked that knowledge, what men did of being apart in politics and wars and stuff so because it was the mens job to go out and support his family, there is a high chance that the men would even discuss things like this to the woman, that's probably another reason women weren't apart of this as well.

Race seperation was crutial then as well... but as always woman now and days are trying to strive to the top.. who knows maybe later we won't feel like a minority in this world.

Thanks, this topic was just on my mind after school ended so, I just needed to say something to discuss with others and their opinions especially in this website because it's an international website.

Men Don't have a saying on this and why? lol.. Funny because only women are responding to this topic...

<!--coloro:#6600CC-->[color=#6600CC]<!--/coloro-->Hi girls,

A very good discussion is here.

I agree with Pimf about the traditional functions of two different genders and there were very strict rules (varied by culture) in the past. I think this is because males and females have different body structures and functions. Men have much stronger muscles than women and naturally have strength in fighting (not only in combat but also in business), so they tend to be more aggressive than women and it’s their nature. Therefore, a man’s roll in the ancient world (perhaps still today?) was mainly protecting his family from outside enemies (war) and bring food to family by hunting (business). Behaviors such as “arm wrestling” are the outcome of men wanting to show their abilities and strength for fighting. On the other hand, women have the ability to reproduce the next generation and it’s a very important roll to survive from human extinction. So, women are naturally more protective and concerned with security than men are. I think women and men are equally compensating for each other’s lacking points. I don’t agree with Sigmund Freud’s theory that women suffer from “penis envy” (it could be expressing Freud’s complex or his own envy over a woman’s ability of reproduction).

I couldn’t find good reason why women should have been discriminated in the past in most of countries. Even in the Art World of the past, most of the old masters were male artists. Why? It doesn’t mean that women didn’t have talent in art back then; just it wasn’t a woman’s area. Now, we are in a postmodern (could be post-postmodern?) art world and I feel lucky to be a woman artist working at this time because of the acceptance of women artists in the art world is equal to male artists. A trend since postmodernism started. Modernism was still kind of a masculine world that women artists were not equally accepted into. I’m glad to see the fact that many competitive female artists are active and successful in today’s art world.<!--colorc-->[/color]<!--/colorc-->