It drives me nuts how people just completely discount, ignore, or dismiss all the gains that one-half of the population (women) experienced in the Eastern Bloc. Kristin Ghodsee's book Why Women Had Better Sex Under Socialism highlights this. I really don't even think her book is about sex per se. The point is, when women feel empowered, secure, and equals to men... they feel better about themselves. And no different from men, happy confident people make for better romantic partners. For a moment socialism was able to provide this, until it was snuffed out. You can read all about how women in these places, as socialism was dismantled, saw their lives get worse in relation to their status to men.
I just think this is all a helpful antidote to the bs I see on social media from evangelicals (as an ex-evangelical I have an unhealthy obsession with evangelical social media) who think "feminism" is ruining relationships and society. The opposite is true.
It drives me nuts how people just completely discount, ignore, or dismiss all the gains that one-half of the population (women) experienced in the Eastern Bloc. Kristin Ghodsee's book Why Women Had Better Sex Under Socialism highlights this. I really don't even think her book is about sex per se. The point is, when women feel empowered, secure, and equals to men... they feel better about themselves. And no different from men, happy confident people make for better romantic partners. For a moment socialism was able to provide this, until it was snuffed out. You can read all about how women in these places, as socialism was dismantled, saw their lives get worse in relation to their status to men.
I just think this is all a helpful antidote to the bs I see on social media from evangelicals (as an ex-evangelical I have an unhealthy obsession with evangelical social media) who think "feminism" is ruining relationships and society. The opposite is true.