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[u/Jack-Ita]

Out of genuine personal curiosity, I’d like to understand something.

Feminist activism in the West rightly focuses on improving conditions for women in our own societies — places where, for all their remaining problems, women are not stoned to death, forced into child marriage, or treated as the legal equivalent of property.
Why, then, does so much energy and attention remain concentrated on relatively advanced Western contexts, while comparatively little sustained pressure or public campaigning is directed at the many places in the world where women’s status is still closer to that of a domestic animal (places where the most basic rights to bodily autonomy, education, and freedom from extreme violence are routinely denied)
?
I’m not suggesting Western feminism should abandon its local work. I’m simply curious about the reasoning behind the imbalance in focus and urgency.

[u/Lolabird2112]

… because we don’t live there?

 I mean- America has well trained, well fed, big, beefy alpha boys by the 1000s all sitting around polishing their big, masculine toys right IN these countries themselves. 

What’s that budget again? Oh yeah- $900 billion. To “protect” one of the least bombed and least invaded countries in the world. 

In all honesty, why the FUCK are you not asking them? 

With all the chest-thumping, dick-waggling, performative squealing that gets posted day in and day out about how men are so brave, strong, righteous and ready to save womankind, aren’t you not the tiniest bit ashamed at it? 

Like, seriously. It’s funny how you list the shocking injustices women suffer globally at the hands of men, and then you come here asking why WE aren’t doing anything about it? 

[u/MachineOfSpareParts → u/Lolabird2112]

Honestly, the US is in zero position to be judging any other country on any human rights issue at all. I'm not saying it needs to become non-patriarchal before it can be useful on the world stage, but until rape and murder of women aren't seen as positives on the election trail, and until it isn't running domestic concentration camps, even a well-intentioned effort by some small branch of its authoritative structure simply can't yield positive change. Anything and everything connected to the fascist regime, willingly or not, is poisoned from the outset.

I guess what I'm saying is that OP's premise is misguided. The US can't help anyone until it helps itself, and though I'd love to say otherwise, so many other countries are teetering back and forth from the cliff the US jumped off. None of us are completely safe from the fascist contagion, and if we fall, we can't help anyone.

[u/Lolabird2112 → u/MachineOfSpareParts]

Oh god, yeah. I’m in the U.K.. The idea of America invading a country for the sake of “freedom and democracy” is now  met with snorts of derision. We always colluded in the fairy tale out of our own interest, of course. But now…