I lived in the States for 11 years (dual South African/German, currently living in Ireland).

i cannot stand feminism. I loathe the term partriarchy. I didn't like American men either. Those I met treated me as if I was there for their sexual pleasure. I couldn't understand why they kept asking me whether I was a first night or a third night girl. I had to ask.

They wanted to know whether I slept with a guy on the first date or the third date.

I used to watch American women around men. It boggled my mind. On the one hand, they simper and flirt as if the guy is their god. On the other hand, they trash men as if men are the most terrible people in the universe.

I have no time for feminism. As a woman born in 1951, I have nothing to complain about. My late mother born in 1925 went on to race cars, fish, breed animals, run several businesses, travel the world, be a political activist (on the right side of history), and more. Nothing could stop her.

I met many women like that. Neither men nor circumstances stopped them.

We walk out of marriages when we don't like them. We support ourselves financially, even when we have children. We don't moan when life kicks us in the guts. We get up and we get going.

My own personal analysis is that America is a society where, if you're not at the top of the pecking order, people look down on you. You're constantly been told that you have to get to the top. People suffer from a deep down sense of inadequacy, and they have to have someone to blame.

So everybody in America is blaming everybody else, except the American culture, which is the root of all problems.

That's about it.