I'M NOT SORRY. SUE ME.

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The video leverages a provocative hook and presents historical facts in a digestible, narrative format, appealing to a sense of historical awareness and challenging common misconceptions about feminism's impact.

Summary

The video argues that many young women today take feminist achievements for granted, highlighting historical examples of gender inequality in areas like employment, credit, education, jury duty, and marital rape laws. It emphasizes that these rights were hard-won by previous generations of feminists.

Structure

1Introduction: "I'm not a feminist. Sue me."
2Historical examples of inequality (flight attendants, credit, education)
3Legal changes and their dates (marital rape, VAWA)
4Conclusion: Young women benefit from past feminist struggles

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I'M NOT SORRY. SUE ME. What has feminism accomplished? Height: 5'2"- 5'9" Weight: Proportionate to height but no more than 135 Ibs. United Airlines Stewardess Qualifications (1968) Females only Age: 21-27 When Could Women Get Credit Cards? Designed for pregnancy. In the 1960s, only 44% of women worked while pregnant; companies routinely and openly required women to quit when they were expecting. The Supreme Court held III. THEN COMES BABY IN A BABY CARRIAGE If women did not leave employment upon marriage, they left upon pregnancy. Some left voluntarily, while others left because they knew they would be discharged once the pregnancy was revealed. Many em- ployers required women to leave upon learning of the pregnancy, and would not rehire them for a year or two following the birth, if at all. "Most women were fired outright, and others were relegated to lower ranking jobs." However, the absence of maternity leave policies usually forced women to quit work without any other options. Eventually, Princeton and Yale began admitting women in 1969, with Brown University following in 1971 and Dartmouth in 1972. The lone Ivy holdout, Columbia University, did not admit women until 1983. By contrast, Cornell So, in order to remain attractive to prospective college men, some elite colleges started to admit women. Yale began in 1968, Princeton in 1969, and Dartmouth narrowly missed out on the 60s, finally admitting women in 1972. In the 1960s, Malkiel says, "the high school students [elite colleges] lovingly refer to as 'the best boys' are beginning to show in their application patterns and decisions ... that they don't want to go to school with all males anymore. They want to go to school with girls. That is what makes [the elite colleges] act." Women Serving on Juries Controversies regarding the composition of juries did not focus solely on race. Beginning in 1961, the issue of women being considered for jury duty became contested legal ground. In justifying the exclusion of their female citizens, several states cited women as the "center of home and family life" who should be relieved of this burden. However, in Taylor v. Louisiana, 419 U.S. 522 (1975), the court ruled that systematic exclusion of female jurors failed to meet the "fair cross section" guaranteed by constitutional amendments. Taylor did not Marital Rape and Abuse As of July 5, 1993, marital rape is considered a crime in all fifty states. Yet, there are still loopholes or exemptions in states when rape happens. Even today, some states still exempt spousal rape from criminal prosecution, making it a lesser crime than non-spousal rape. Charles Burt represented the husband, John Rideout, while the prosecution was represented by Marion County District Attorney Gary Gortmaker. Burt is quoted saying, "A woman who's still in a marriage is presumably consenting to sex...Maybe this is the risk of being married, you know?...If this law's interpretation isn't corrected it will bring a flock of rape cases under very bad circumstances... The remedy is to get out of the marital situation." [6] He was found not guilty by a unanimous jury composed of eight women and four men on December 27, 1978. [7] Violence Against Women Act Share

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“I’m not a feminist I just like to benefit from the work of feminists before me” #feminist #feminism #women #History #sexism

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I'm not a feminist. I'm not sorry. Sue me. What has feminism accomplished? Sometimes I think that feminists have made such insane waves in advocating for and achieving gender equality and anti-gender discrimination that it's easy for people like this girl to think that feminism is obsolete and that you don't need to be a feminist. Like it's so easy to forget or maybe to not know that until 1964, flight attendants were fired for going over strict weight requirements. And they were forced to quit if they got pregnant. It's blissful to have no idea that until 1974, banks required men and women to be paid equally when doing the same work. It wasn't until the Equal Credit Opportunity Act was passed in 1974 that women could get their own credit cards in their own name. The ECOA was originally written by Emily Card, a legislative fellow to Senator Bill Brock (R-TN) who was a member of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, and sponsored the bill. The ECOA was signed into law by President Gerald Ford on October 28, 1974. It's easy to forget that companies designed for pregnancy. In the 1960s, only 44% of women worked while pregnant; companies routinely and openly required women to quit when they were expecting. The Supreme Court held that women were fired outright, and others were relegated to lower ranking jobs. However, the absence of maternity leave policies usually forced women to quit work without any other options. It's blissful to have no idea that Ivy Leagues didn't accept women until the 60s and 70s because they believed that educating women would lower their academic standards. So, in order to remain attractive to prospective college men, some elite colleges started to admit women. Yale began in 1968, Princeton in 1969, and Dartmouth narrowly missed out on the 60s, finally admitting women in 1972. The boys wanted them there. The men were going to co-ed schools. So the Ivies were like, we can't lose our best boys, we have to start accepting the lesser sex. Women weren't allowed to be called for jury duty until 1975 because women were believed to be too emotional and too fragile. It was not until 1993 that it became illegal in all fifty states for a man to rape his wife. But that didn't even mean anything because the first piece of legislation to acknowledge that domestic violence was a federal crime was the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) in 1994. That was 32 years ago. So many young girls and young women have the luxury of growing up in an era where women's liberation has fought hard for all of their rights. And so they think that it's unnecessary to keep pushing for gender equality because they benefit from all of the work that happened before they were born. Learn your history and thank the feminists that fought for your right to be on a podcast.