Feminism: What do people think of Feminism!????

Question

What are your thoughts and opinions on it???
And how necessary do you think it is???
Also, are any of you Feminists?? Or are you Pro-Feminism/Feminists or Anti-Feminism/Feminists etc??

Answer 1

Although feminism gets a bad rap, the intention is good. Its just that as in any movement, there are going to be those individuals that go too far. Women dont always get a fair shake but things are better than the used to be.

I dont believe, however that women should be in EVERY occupation. Women on the whole are not as physically strong as men.I dont think standards should be lowered to allow women in an occupation where strength can save lives and lack of it can put lives in jeprody. Example: Firefighting.

Answer 2

I think that modern feminism has hurt the American family. Women are clearly capable of doing anything they want to do but we are now dependent upon 2 incomes so that even if a woman (or man for that matter) wants to stay home and raise his or her own children, it is difficult to afford to. I think that suffragettes from the late 1800's and early 1900's were heroines who got women the right to vote and be treated as equals. But most radical feminists these days seem to hate men while acting just like what they claim to hate. So, I guess I'm not a feminist.

Answer 3

David Gelernter, Drawing Life, Surviving the Unabomber, Free Press, 1997, p. 95

Housewives, not men, were the prey in feminism's sights when Kate Millett decreed in 1969 that the family must go. Feminists do not speak for traditional women. Men cannot know this, however, unless we tell them how we feel about them, our children, and our role in the home. Men must understand that our feelings towards them and our children are derided by feminists and have earned us their enmity. Whether or not this understanding garners men's support, traditional women must defend ourselves because the feminist offensive is, most essentially, a breach of solidarity with us, a disavowel of the obligation to honor the Women's Pact [that religious celibates, professional women, and homemakers respect each other] that women in the movement owed to us

Answer 4

I am a male but let me share my insights. Women have been treated badly in many cultures and it is time that they are treated like humans. I live in the Orient and have seen many minor slights that would anger a western woman...but it is the culture.As to capability and skills, women are equal to or even superior to men and even the military would confess that women crewpersons would be better in space shuttles or submarines than men. I think that society would be better if all people were treated as equals, not by sex. Unfortunately, people are animals in the sense that after so many generations of evolving into the people we are, men still have a vestige of dominance and the desire for control, either over other men or if not, then the women folk and women are more submissive. Males do not have the position in the home they had before as the bread-winners, often women bring home the bigger paycheck as times are changing. I do not advocate a hostile feminist group demanding equality but I do advocate a passive resistance so the path can lead to real partnerships between the sexes.

Answer 5

When you speak of "feminism" are you referring to the equal rights for females or are you referring to the female characteristics developing in some males?

Equality for women is an established thing and should no longer be a critical factor to be considered in government. Women have every right to be anything they wish to be in our government.

Unfortunately, like the race-issue, it sometimes is used to explain why a person was not ( or is not) successful in some endeavor.

In today's society very few women can honestly claim that the reason they did not achieve some position or were not promoted, was "because they are women." In most cases, when they failed, it was because of some shortcoming in their abilities.

Answer 6

It's a shame that feminism has made women into inferior men. Women are great the way they are naturally: They don't need a group of dykes telling them that the only way they can be worth anything is to emulate men.

Answer 7

The Women's rights movement started and all hell broke loose.

This reason is because the women's place was to bear children be a good Mother cook dinner for the husband and have sex when he wanted too and never talk back to your husband. They were not allowed to congregate in 1800's It was taboo.
That is why women snarled in the corner of their eyes and not try to be conspicuous with their thoughts as they became more and more angry at men.
When the Women's movement started...that all changed.
Women today are no longer called Whorres. They are liberated to a higher echelon.
Women entrepreneurs have put Man to the test in business and we are losing that war!!

Answer 8

Look at our country today. That is what militant feminism causes.

Women should be allowed to do whatever they want, but feminists in the '70s convinced them that traditional roles were traitorous to all women and should be shunned. How's that workin' for us?

Answer 9

No, they choose feminism because of the fact devoid of it, they might not be waiting to make their own alternatives or maybe have of undertaking at getting an training. attempt traveling a rustic the place females are seen as components and could't carry a activity or get an training and tell me how "reliable" those females are.

Answer 10

i think it sucks hard...i want my daughter to be what ever she can be. i don't want her stuck in a kitchen with a man that may not be able to give her the life she wants and their family deserves. what if one day he says ...well i want a divorce...she going to have to depend on him to take care of her. what if hes called to war or die...no education , work skills, what will she do,,,get welfare. Well the day when men see that if there very educated wives have to quit their jobs and stand over the stove while the foreclosure letters and the over due bills start piling up on the tables...and that fancy car, and the big house that they have both worked so hard to get....is being pulled away....he'll be outside on the side of the street holding one of those women's right signs.there is very little a person can do these days to have the best of the best....or even just enough....it takes two.....