Does anyone find it strange that while class segregation, racial segregation, and now orientation segregation is considered shocking and horrible, sex segregation is still fashionable?
Class segregation is, by and large, not often considered today. Selecting persons based on their bank balance is simply unheard of, and one would never think to separate the rich from the poor.
The movement for class equality came, and it left, ensuring equality for men.
Racial segregation is not common today, but is still quite looked down upon. An example of this would be the judge in Louisiana who ruled that couples of different ethnicities should be separated and not married. These types of events draw outrage for their immorality, and laughter for their idiocy.
The movement for racial equality came, and it is leaving, ensuring equality for men.
Orientation segregation is still a monster being fought against. Unlike class segregation, which isn't considered so much, or racial segregation, which is laughed at, orientation segregation both happens frequently, and is dealt with seriously, as it is a common occurrence. These happenings merit a quick, strong, and vicious outlash, as those supporters of equal rights stand up for the victims.
The movement for orientation equality has come, and it stays, to ensure equality for men.
While the movement for equality for the lower classes affected a good portion of the population, racial segregation affected less (in 2008, 34% of the population) and orientation segregation affected even less (2-13% of the population).
Why is a segregation affecting 34% of the population more important than a segregation affecting 50% of the population? Why is a segregation affecting as little as 2% and as great as 13% of the population more important than 50% of the population?
Establishing a school where only the very rich would be allowed to attend would be stared at, and quickly destroyed, yet schools which allow only males or only females still do not encounter more than an inaudible whisper of passive opposition.
A restroom segregating persons of different races would be denounced in shock, but a restroom segregating persons of different sexes has never garnered any outrage beyond a passing thought.
A clothing store directing gay members to one area and straight ones to another would be picketed, boycotted, and attacked, but those which segregate women to one area and men to another have never found anything but glad and happy acceptance.
And why? Why the difference? Why so much acceptance of a huge evil, and an attack on a smaller one?
Worker's rights movements have been around hundreds of years, and they have succeeded. Racial rights movements have been around for about 70 years, and they have near complete success. Orientation rights movements have been around for about 30 years, and they are fighting a winning battle.
The women's rights movement has been around for more than 130 years, and there still is blatant segregation.
Why is sex segregation so popular? Why has the women's rights movement failed?
