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humanodon  ·  3860 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Speaking up every. Fucking. Time

    She's just shipped herself off to Vietnam to teach English a couple weeks ago

Hate to say it, but as a former English teacher who lived there, it's not a great country for feminism. I mean, I had girls say to me something along the lines of "I will be a good wife if you buy a nice house".





bioemerl  ·  3860 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That is a great country for feminism, whereas countries that have lots of womens rights are not.

humanodon  ·  3859 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It may be, but the internet is also a great place to comment on things or places one might have no experience with.

bioemerl  ·  3859 days ago  ·  link  ·  

How are those two related at all?

am_Unition  ·  3860 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Hate to say it, but as a former English teacher who lived there, it's not a great country for feminism.

Oh our whole family would agree with that statement, and my sister has a pretty good idea of what she's getting herself into. She's got a thing for overcoming adversity, and she's pretty good at it. I'm proud to be her kin.

If anyone's interested, she's blogging about it.

b_b  ·  3859 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Does that say more about the state of women's rights in Vietnam, or the more general state of economics there?

humanodon  ·  3859 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well, marriage is still very much an economic arrangement. Also, wives generally control the money in the household. We must remember that isms may manifest in many different ways.