I do think you misunderstood what I was saying. I was trying to offer comfort and practical guidance for what to do.. I was never telling women to do nothing, and when I said we as individuals cannot influence these trends -- in the US, there has been many types of backward advancement or problems over the past 50 years - because people have had to struggle so hard just to survive. There were massive protests in the US, from the "Occupy Wall Street" protests to #NoDAPL (Dakota Access Pipeline) and protests over police killings (Black Lives Matter). People took over the city of Portland, OR for a government-free zone over police killings. There has been only negative change resulting from them. The governments in EU are somewhat less evil, Emmanuel - the problem here isn't that people don't care and don't protest, it is that the elected officials nearly everywhere are the worst, as I stated in my article. What I said was to recommend to people to help themselves and others around them as they are able, encouraging them to take care of each other. Not act individually or selfishly as you believe.

Over 1 million have died of COVID here in the US, and death rates are way above EU - for many different reasons. The US isn't the same kind of country as EU nations, on that, you are right. You will see lunatics commenting here - please do not try to tell me there are no crazy people in France, we see the news about them - we may have people like Trump: France has the LePens.

"Individualism" does hurt the US - but that's not what I was recommending. I was recommending people do what they can. People protesting won't change this, it is truly past the point of protest - something more drastic is likely needed. I'm sorry to say that, but in the meantime. people need to help themselves and each other as they can.

Merci, Emmanuel - et paix