Do not take that title as a joke! I've once done a paper on the feminist movement in Las Vegas during the 1950s-80s. To research for the paper I read a book called "Storming Caesar's Palace", which I highly recommend. During the time in the book millions of people, black and white, rich and poor, young and old, moved to Las Vegas to take part in the expanding metropolis. The city's geography was set up so that the poor, black immigrants to the city were essentially cut off from the downtown upper class area. But more to the point the government's welfare system was purposefully set up to keep them tied down to the system.
The response? A full out publicity war on Las Vegas luxurious casino's. The women, fed up with the system the state government forced them into, walked calmly into the casino Caesar's Palace, and sat down, they did this several times and to different casinos. It shut down the casino floors and ended up costing the owners millions of dollars in gambling and a slump in tourism. This forced the casino owners, wanting to make money again, to pry Navada's governments hands to change the welfare system to be more accommodating. It lead to a reformed welfare system, improved utilities and schools in their area, and a growth in the single mothers' ability to control their lives.
What happened after? The women wanted complete control of the development of their part of the city. They knew what the area needed and how to go about it the best way. So instead of allowing the state and city government to just make the changes and going back to ignoring them, them took control of the situation and forced them to listen up.
That's why you should not mess with a feminist. They do not take crap from no one, and nor should they.
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