I want to discuss a topic that I feel all libertarians should be supporters of – Feminism! Let’s face it, libertarians need to stop being so freaking anti- feminist, once and for all; though I think most libertarians are pro-feminist deep down inside. Feminism in its original meaning is 100% a libertarian/capitalist movement. First off, let’s just say why feminists – in the original sense – should hate government.
Governments used to not allow women to own property or businesses of any kind. Literally setting it up so that (in many states) if a woman was married to a man, and didn’t have a male son when the man died, she would likely be forced to give the business to the closest male relative, likely without any compensation for it. For many years, women were not legally allowed to vote in America. Women were denied access to schools for most of history. Many governments would even be able to shut down a business just for hiring and using women workers, if complained about.
Occupational licensing was made difficult to obtain, and women were denied the right to become things such as lawyers, doctors and more. Women were put in many situations where their property and rights weren’t respected. Up until the 1950’s, many states didn’t even care if a man casually beat his wife as long as no serious damage was caused.
There was a discriminatory agent around and, holy sh*t, it was the government. The government, being a male created tool which blocked women’s rights (they did not have voting rights), created a male only majority that damaged the rights of women. They did this with Jim Crow; they did this to the Native American community; they did it to women; from this, it’s easy to say women were treated poorly by society and viewed as tools in male oppression.
We can’t just say “Oh, that was the past, today is what counts”; It’s called all f*cking history, compared to the last 50 damn years! For most of American history, women had very few rights compared to men. We did live in an anti-female society. In world history, for 99% of the time, women didn’t have an equal say. We are living in the [maybe] .3% that they do. This is something I see libertarians pretend isn’t the case and that is morally and historically just a total wasteland of wrong. What caused this to end? Well, like most problems, it was the market.
Let me list what the market did to help women’s rights.
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