Here is the point where I get irritated.
Every.
Single.
Time.
I can hardly believe how much its description fits in today's reality.
A western 'oh so post post modern' world, where I still hear a member of the European Parliement shouting that women are smaller and less intelligent than men, so they obviously have to be paid less, where in my country, in many cities, a woman cannot exercise her legal right to interrupt pregnancy, because all gynecologists are "conscentious objectors", where a woman still has to think twice before she wears whatever she wants, so she's not "asking for it", where a creepy man who happens to have become President of the United States...ok, I'll spare you this one.
Worldwide issues get other proportions: denied access to education, human right gap, infibulation, children brides, just to mention some aspects of this complex matter.
The question is still open, even though, as Mme de Beauvoir points out, enough ink has been spilled and the voluminous nonsense, that has been produced, does not illuminate the problem.
What I wish is that the general view on this subject turns to be more similar to below statement.
I wish to open "The Second Sex" one day and smile, relieved, realizing we are finally past 1949.
"I cannot be fair about books that treat women as women. My idea is that all of us, men as well as women, whoever we are, should be considered as human beings."
Dorothy Parker
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