Quote: (08-22-2012 12:33 AM)Greek kamaki Wrote:
The communist version of feminism which was more real as the women were considered equally capable of doing hard manual work at fields,factories,army,truck driving led to a rapid deterioration of the status of women(they were viewed as dispensable parts of the system) in eastern Europe and to a distrust towards feminism.The women had to do all the hard work in factory and then come home and cook,take care of the children etc.All men received equal low pay and there was no opportunity to milk them dry.And even if you did there was nothing to buy.No wonder why eastern European women were at that point ready to suck every foreign cock arriving regardless of how the rest of body looked like.
We have to pay a tribute to Stalin for creating this heaven(just kidding).Anyway the Anglosaxon version of communism does not appeal to other societies there is resistance.Why should a Mediteranean woman accept equality when she is put by the pedestral by Italian men paying her at every step and opportunity to have the chance to touch her hand?Rights of women conquered in the duration of hundreds of years would have been demolished in one night if feminism were to be introduced in full force.No wonder why Mediteranean societies resist to feminist influence as well.Germans refuse as well but mostly for practical reasons and deep ingrained suspicion towards trends from Anglosaxon word.The Germans also like the idea of hierarchy where the one part has the upper hand and German women always try to dominate(they have natural inclination towards that).An artificially imported feminism would oblige them to stop.
From my experience growing in communist Czechoslovakia this does ring true. Communists really pushed for equality to the max - hard work for women, uniform, plain clothes for everybody, the same looking, small, shitty apartment in projects for every family. It indeed wasn't very good for women's status and well-being as they were still expected to work at home as well. This situation was worse the more east you went. There was a saying in Soviet Union, it went something like "women are to work, and men are to drink, fuck, fight (in a war) and die".
Skrillex in Czech Republic - I don't think this is really a symptom of rapidly increasing feminism. CR always had a lot of "alternative" people, hipsters, etc Much more than other countries in Eastern Europe and probably exceeding many Western countries. Huge arts scene in Prague. Smoking pot is tolerated and very widespread; one of the top European countries per capita. Hipsterism and feminism does indeed go hand-in-hand, but I cannot shake the feeling does the breed of feminism there (and in continental Europe in general) is simply not as bad as the one we find in the Anglosphere. Maybe it is the obesity in women and the resulting fattitude?