Ok I see this a lot and, quite frankly, it's wrong. (A THREAD)

Feminism in the US began in the 1840s. Women wanted basic equal rights to the voting booth. The role women played in WWl showed they deserved equal representation and paved the way from the 19th amendment. https://twitter.com/samanthamarika1/status/1272646152907677696

But it was widely left there for nearly 10 years. Small numbers of women fought to enter the workforce, but it wasn't until the Great Depression that our sex as whole was pushed into the workforce out of sheer need to make a living. During WW2, women took on jobs that had

Solely been for men because the men were off fighting. It wasn't until sodliers came home and displaced women in these fields that women began to push back. In the 1950s society greatly pushed for traditional gender roles in the home. It was packaged as the American dream and

All forms of media and entertainment enforced it. But women were restless and became more restless by the increased apathy of men who did not appreciate the work women did in the home. Society tried to remedy this with suburbanization. The mass production of cars allowed

Young couples to go out for entertainment but also provided more privacy for promiscuity, which greatly contributed to the rise in premarital sex and high birth rates, which further challenged societies view on sex and family.

In the late 1950s, in the midst of the cold war, society placed more pressure on women to return to the home and stay out of the workforce by selling the idea that women were largely to blame for the cold war due to their abandonment of strong American values and the

Traditional family unit. During the 1960s the Civil Rights and Anti wars movements brought about a young generation that challenged the authority of the state and the ideals of past generations. One of those ideals was that women did not have the same sexual desires and needs

That men do. This was something society widely disagreed with and pushed back against. Women were looked down on for embracing their own sexual desires the way men had for centuries. They were attacked as being the downfall of American society. Enter the invention of

Birth control, otherwise known back then simply as "the pill" and our still relatively socially conservative society was horrified by it. Up to this point, our culture had been able to scare women away from promiscuity with the threat of shame and abuse they would suffer should

They end up pregnant outside of marriage. The pill threatened that control. Women could now embrace sexuality the way men did without the same level fear for procreation society had threatened them with for so long. But even with this loss of control, society, which was still

Largely headed by men, refused to buckle under the pressure to adapt and change to include women in equal opportunities. This eventually led us to abortion activism, normalization and 1973 Roe Vs. Wade. While riddled with scandal, the court case was heavily backed by

Women's rights activists who were tired of pleading with a male led society to adapt to give them equal opportunity and had decided to take matters into their own hands. If society would not adapt to women's biological ability to get pregnant even when unintended, they would

Take the steps to eliminate that barrier themselves. We can argue the barbarity of abortion. We can argue that no career is worth the price of a child. I agree with both those statements. But pinning the blame of the downfall of society purely on women rights movements is both

Ignorant and false. The reality is men were already engaging in acts that should have broken down the family unit. But they're inability to get pregnant and suffer the consequences of their actions as well as society's expectations for women to look the other way, forgive and

Forget, kept the family unit in tact. It was at the sacrifice of women family units hadn't broken down much sooner and it was them finally getting sick and tired of being doormats and mens refusal to change when women demanded it that led us to where our society is today.