Quote #206881
Women’s liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.
Golda Meir
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Interpretation
The remark is a characteristically sardonic inversion: instead of treating women as the disadvantaged sex, it points to a biological asymmetry—pregnancy and childbirth—that men cannot share. Read this way, it functions less as a policy argument than as a rhetorical jab at simplistic “oppressor/oppressed” framings, suggesting that some inequalities are rooted in nature rather than law. At the same time, the line can be taken as dismissive of organized feminism, implying that “liberation” talk overlooks women’s distinctive power and social centrality as mothers. Its bite comes from treating an unchangeable fact as the ultimate “discrimination,” exposing how elastic the term can become.




