The right to have rights

Being a woman has been accepted much longer than being a different race or a different sexuality. Women have been openly around for much longer than homosexuals and people of other races. It was not even until 1492 until we knew Native Americans even existed. Women got the right to vote before African Americans and in Europe women had the right to vote as well as many more rights, before people of color and American women. Therefore women have been at least tolerated in western society for much longer than other minorities in our culture.

This is the reason I believe that women in general and feminists appear to think that they have more of a right to rights than other minorities. Women have been a group for much longer and have been putting up with being the underdogs longer and more openly than any other group and appear to have finally become fed up. In regards to the openly being submissive you may say, well we had slaves for hundreds of years. In response to this, yes however in the western world who was the first to be dominated? The wives. Until very recent history women were considered property and had no rights regardless of the treatment of them by their husbands and fathers. Not to mention, in many niches of our culture homosexuality as well as not being a white Anglo-Saxon is not completely accepted by men or women. Therefore women who do not accept these minorities will automatically see themselves as better than people who are and think they have more of a right to rights.