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Educating women is the most effective way of equipping them to protect their own interests.

To enlighten yourself, consider reading Federici's "Revolution at Point Zero" and Freire's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed."

I wrote that women’s education is necessary, but not sufficient. All the women in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan can have PhDs, but it is not going to do them much good if the men collectively decide to oppress them.

Au contraire, the men can collectively decide to oppress them, but it is not going to do them much good if all the women in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan have PhDs.

What is it, I ask you, that makes a population difficult to oppress?

I tried to slap my wife, but my hand was repelled by her PhD force field

First of all, it's gross to use depictions of violence in a conversation in order to cow your counterpart.

Second, a woman with a PhD would have more opportunities to avoid marrying you.

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