Someone I know just randomly threw that out there when I was talking about Cuba's revolutionary gay marriage bill.

  • AHopeOnceMore [he/him]B
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    2 years ago

    Real countries are arguably bad on a number od things. The perspective that something is bad is sometimes implicitly relative to your own personal standards and morality rather than relative to other countries, for example. By my own standard, every country is bad on womrn's issues. None have abolished gender roles, for example.

    That isn't a reason to crap on one particular country, of course. And when it comes to imperialized nations punching far above their weight (like Cuba), we should at minimum provide critical support, and mostly just the support when conversing with Western chauvinists.

    When looking at Cuba, compare to Haiti or the Dominican Republic. Look at how they fare when it comes to pregnancy stats and the health of the parent, which disproportionately impacts women. Look at how they fare when it comes to gender equity in employment and political representation. In educational attainment. And hell, compare the same to the far wealthier US, which has worse stats on all or nearly all of these things.

    Anyways, Cuba is a real country with real people and real misogyny. It hasn't abolished it (neither has any country). So whether it's bad is really a question of what point is getting made.

    Anyways I'm being too generous because the most likely answer is that they are saying that Cuba is worse than average or worse than reasonably comparable countries, which is just not true.