Well, sure. But then there are costs to women in speaking/acting out against the existing system too: women have been imprisoned and killed for claiming their rights -- continue to be killed explicitly for that in many places, and I think much domestic violence is implicitly to keep individual women in their place.
So yes, changing the system is dangerous, but it's dangerous for everyone; and once the system is changed the benefits will accrue to everyone too. So I still think the fact that women have been more likely to risk that danger is because the long-term benefits to women are more obvious to women than the long-term benefits to men are obvious to men.
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Date: 2010-04-11 08:09 am (UTC)So yes, changing the system is dangerous, but it's dangerous for everyone; and once the system is changed the benefits will accrue to everyone too. So I still think the fact that women have been more likely to risk that danger is because the long-term benefits to women are more obvious to women than the long-term benefits to men are obvious to men.