Do you think feminism is legitimate or is it bullshit? Why?

@SW-User Well, I did once see a segment about how "feminists scored a major victory for equal rights" by getting some town in NorCal to make female walk signs on traffic lights. Like, instead of the stick person being drawn as a guy, it was drawn as a woman.

Being from a place where females are basically considered property, that REALLY pissed me off. Anyone who thinks a fucking traffic light being shaped differently is a "victory for feminism" should try flying to Sana'a where I was born and see how well that works. The shit we did back there was REAL feminism. We were shot at, tear gassed, beaten, stabbed, some people even were captured and tortured.

@BlueMetalChick I agree. That's pretty stupid.

@SW-User Fun fact, the majority of oppression in my home country is the work of Wahhabi Muslims. In their specific denomination of Islam, it's believed that if a man is killed by another man, he may still go to heaven if he was pious during his life. But if a man is killed by a woman, it is so disgraceful and so dishonorable and reflects so poorly upon his character and status as a man that he has no chance to go to heaven and is sent straight to hell. So when shit got violent, a lot of these guys would actually run away from us. None of them wanted to get killed by a female because they believed that it would spell eternal damnation for them in the afterlife. It turned a sickly malnourished chronically sunburned street urchin like myself into someone big and scary who could frighten off adult men.

@BlueMetalChick That blows my mind!!! How old were you when you left?

@SW-User Well I left for the first time at age 9 but I went back to find my mother and then left for the second time when I was 12.

@BlueMetalChick I am so glad you were able to leave. What did you think of of things when you were first adjusting to America?

@SW-User Well I ended up in Australia first. It was...difficult. I had to learn how to do basic things like cross the street, ride the bus or train, order food in a restaurant, things like that. I'd never done any of those things before because I had been used to living in a war torn pile of cholera infested rubble and the few times I was in a functioning city, I was treated like a stray animal. But I can also say, it was kind of fun. It was all so much to take in at one time, I was impressed and excited by everything because it was a new experience. Some of the navy men who were part of the effort took my sister and I to a bar with them and I'd never been in such a place. I was so awed by the indoor plumbing.

@BlueMetalChick You are so brave and a very strong woman! Good for you sister!

@SW-User Take everything away from a person and they have nothing in the world to lose, and therefore nothing in the world to fear.

@BlueMetalChick Very, very wise words.