"One needs only to analyze the origins of male supremacy to expose that position for what it is a distortion of reality and false. The inferior role of women in society does not date back to the beginning of time. In fact, before the Europeans came to this part of the world women enjoyed a high position of equality with men. The submission of women, along with institutions such as the church and the patriarchy, was imported by the European colonizers, and remains to this day part of Anglo society. Machismo-which, as it is commonly used, translates in English into male chauvinism-is the one thing, if which should be labeled an "Anglo thing." When Chicano men oppose the efforts of women to move against their oppression, they are actually opposing the struggle of every woman in this country aimed at changing a society in which Chicanos themselves are oppressed. They are saying to 51 percent of this country's population that we have no right to fight for our liberation."
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Mirta Vidal
Mirta Vidal (died January 3, 2004) was a writer who was involved in the Chicano Movement.
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