Modern feminism

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I tend to distrust shrill people by instinct.

I got into a discussion with a lady named Sarah Braasch on an atheist blog, taking issue with her using the term "gender genocide" to describe sexism in America. I have the same sort of issue with the idea of "rape culture", insofar as it hyperbolizes an issue to the point of caricature, thus devaluing it of any usefulness. Too many feminists are too quick to excoriate those who don't agree 100% with them. Too many feminists don't want a dialogue; they want a harangue.

The idea that America is some hyper-sexist place compared to the rest of the world is completely ignorant of the conditions that women live in in most of the world, as well as being ignorant of the extreme sexism that exists in many European countries as well. Not that things are perfect here, but the reported rapes in the U.S. is lower lower than countries like Belgium and Sweden. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_statis...s_2012.png Also ask any woman who has lived in a Mediterranean country whether the U.S. is more sexist. That's to make no mention of Latin America, China or the Middle East.

Like I said before, it's not like the U.S. is perfect or anything but to use it as an example for a sexist county is extremely ignorant of the world. So many people who bash America are the same people who have never left America.