used women before. Many of these women are strong and educated, but they were still physically and mentally abused. Sometimes these men with their ill minds have gotten away with it. Why do some women let men get away with this kind of behavior? When women allow men to rape our minds of our thoughts and rob our rights, we are telling them we are insignificant compared to them. What makes men (and women) so special that they get away with injustice towards the opposite sex? Both men and women have to learn that they do not possess the right to mistreat the opposite sex.
             Most women understand what women before them had to go through when they were degraded and treated as second-class citizens, but are women abusing their rights that many strong women have fought for? Many women who wanted to end discrimination at home and at work in the late 1960's and early 1970's started the Women's Rights Movement. These women took part in marches and spoke out for the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). They fought for property rights, the right to vote, equal oppo
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