¶ … guarantee of stability in the country and in society? Of course they are rights, freedoms and liberties which are common for every democratic society where justice is guaranteed to everyone not looking on his heritage, gender and social status. It was stated in the constitution; it was stated in the declaration of independence and in other documents which are considered to execute nearly the same role for modern society as Ten Commandments told by Moses to Hebrew people. But in reality is it so perfect as it's written and as it seems to be? Or as we want it to be? The answer of course is no. Different kinds of discrimination exist in nowadays society, in one of the most democratic and liberal in free world. It refers to any issue, which distinguishes a person from the rest of the crowd by his qualities that do not have any reference to his personal and professional abilities and traits and that do not influence on the particular case he is judged about. It may be heritage, race, gender or age.
In particular case I would like to touch the gender question. Even though that modern American society had made a long way of social values evolution starting from the first colonists and ending with modern American nation, which sets and dictates most of popular culture attributes to the rest of the world, it still has a lot of people who are slaves. The concept of slavery is quite different from the usual understanding of lack of freedom or physical slavery. This particular sort of slavery is mental. People remain to be the slaves of their prejudices, their stereotypes and their beliefs often not willing to change anything in their system of values. This mostly refers to gender issues, as woman are still perceived as a "weak gender" as some one who has less privileges and rights than men do. It refers to the majority of modern cultures not taking into consideration conservative societies. Even though that now majority of women rights issues have been solved, still the prejudices remain. The nature of the relations of women and men is excellently described in French's book The women's room, which describes the progress and changes in woman's consciousness that occurred in the second half of the twentieth century: a period of women rights activism countrywide.
Today lots of representatives of modern generation would be puzzled by the book if they have never thought about this problem before. Probably they won't understand feminism of the writer, her man-hatred position and shallow description of men characters. For some of these readers there would exist a question what motivated writer to such kind of an attitude? On the hand with egislature, attitude and simply stereotype of modern woman had changed recently, let's refer to the issues that existed in society which paved the way to such changes.
The struggle for the nineteenth amendment of constitution is already a forgotten event from the past. In many respects formal equality and the right to vote didn't give women anything, but only a satisfaction from their struggle. Their position remained nearly the same. College student young lady was a rare case in educational practice of Southern states educational institutions, working lady who was working not in the family business was perceived as deviant behavior. It's just social side of the problem, just a one face of the medal. In private aspect, 19th amendment didn't give anything to a woman. Equality in family relations didn't exist at all, as none could correctly define it. In many cases woman was submitted to her husband and was submitted to his authoritarism.
In The women's room Marilyn French writes the following lines: "My feelings about men are the result of my experience. I have little sympathy for them. Like a Jew just released from Dachau, I watch the handsome young Nazi soldier fall writhing to...
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