Are you sick of some women not knowing about feminism?

Question

I'm so sick of girls saying they are "sick of feminists." Feminism is belief that all genders are equal. This does not mean that chivilary or relationships need to change, that just means in every day life, women and men in gender roles should be equal.

On top of that, so many women don't even know about their own birth preventatives! There have been questions about the morning after pill and whether or not it's harmful. It just seems to me that, naturally, women would read up upon and be interested in their own gender. Why is equality in life and reproductive organs to much to learn about for some gals?

To the person angry about the jump, OBVIOUSLY I don't see women as baby making machines, but I see it as the same basic principle. Many people refuse to learn about many things that pertain to them directly. As people were saying the 'Ugly feminist' gives feminism a bad name, but if people researched feminism, they'd learn that gender equality is the basic principles of feminism. I call myself a feminist, and I refuse to yell about the male gender f-cking me over, or that men are out to get us, because I honestly feel an equal portion of men AND women stand back at the equality dream. That's not, as one person meantioned, seeing eye to eye. That's government and society seeing as both genders as equals, and giving equal rights to both genders.

Now with the birth control, as it is in the same misguided underresearched portion, many women seem to feel the morning after pill is an aborticide. There was a question on would it hurt a person (the answer is NO) and many women were saying..

(addition to last post) many women were saying it was an aborticide and it will kill a fetus. This is a woman's body, shouldn't that be well researched? Especially when giving advice, but regardless, you should know about your reproductive organs if you are going to use them! Women's education is so important, and yet, it seems to be completely overlooked.

And to the post about the woman going to college, even though feminism started a long time ago: Me too. Neither of my parents went to college, my dads a carpenter, and since I was a baby he wanted me to be an electrical engineer. He just wanted me to do something well in my life, and he didn't care about gender roles or barriers in my way. I was raised as a child in my household, not a girl. I had GI joes and played with makeup. I thank them for my radical liberalism, hah

How could relationships and chilivery be the same? Because if you want to be the weaker sex, I think that's your given right. If you want your husband to make the decisions, so be it. BUT government institutions, wages, life styles should not be affected by gender. I could never live with someone who saw me as less than equal, but if my best friend wanted that, I wouldn't stop her. Because that'd be just as unfair as the former.
and I disagree that chivilary is necessarily someone seeing another as a weaker sex. A guy opening a door for me or pulling out my chair DOESN'T HAVE to be him seeing me as weak and unable to do it myself. It can easily be him wanted to do something nice. Why can't you have one without the other?

Answer 1

Irritates the hell out of me.

The fewer the women that know about feminism, the fewer the women who are likely to give me good cause to slap the sh*t out of them.

That is the decline of my fun.

HAHAHAHAHAHA !!!!!!!!

Answer 2

What angers me about this is that there were a lot of sacrifices made so that these girls could do anything they wanted to. I am about 10-15 years younger than the FEMINISTS (Gloria Steinam etc) But I was the first "girl" in my family to work full time while going to school. Ironically my dad totally supported it, while my Mom wanted to know what I needed to go to school for, when I'll just be a waitress or a secretary. Which is NOT to denegrate either occupation AT ALL, that's what I did to get through college and I fall back on waitressing everytime my layoff depresses me so much I can't move, well I know I can always waitress or bus tables! It seems to me (and I bet every generation of every socio-eco-race class can say the same thing) That we all just seem to recreate the folly's of our fathers!

Answer 3

To be honest, there will never be equality between the two genders, because men and women do not see eye to eye on everything, and until that period occurs, it will always be an imperfect situation.

I would love for men and women to be equal, and yes I think it is a bit ridiculous that more women are not eager to join the cause and actually help spread equality, as well as men.

The problem is that the media, which portrays all men as being crude and only out for sex and portrays women as being mindless followers or bitchy catty type of people, continues to get away with what it is doing. The bitchy women are made to look bad, and the mindless follower type of women are made to look good, such as in rap videos and so on, when in fact, it is good for a woman to actually speak out and say when she believes things are wrong and when they're right, but it is rarely portrayed in that particular way.

Many younger women and men as well, need to be educated about feminism and maybe it will bring change, but until then, if people rely on the media and such to teach them, it will result in the type of thing you are angry about.

Answer 4

how could chivalry & relationships remain the *same* as they are if gender roles were equal? i have studied feminism, taken courses, read books, and yet i wonder if certain feminists have a concrete idea of what they want, as exemplified by the oxymoronic statement i believe you have made here. by definition, most modern day relationships and chivalry are founded on the premise that the female sex is the weaker sex and needs to be treated differently. in my non-media-influenced, common-sense opinion, there *is* an inherent difference between men and women. we are different, not better or worse, just different. please understand i am not arguing that women deserve to be treated as less equal - i simply don't think that there is clear logic in the argument that you make about chivalry remaining intact but gender roles becoming equal.. and i absolutely agree that women need to educate themselves about their reproductive health, choices, etc.

** In response to the submitter's reply to my post: I was saying that YOU said YOU did not want chivalry or relationships to change, and I was simply asking how you suggested that took place, since BY DEFINITION (check a dictionary) "chivalry" originated in the days of knighthood where men fought for women, etc. If you want "kindness" and "courtesy" (aka opening doors, etc.) you should not have even said the word chivalry... It should go without saying that people should be nice. But I still feel you are unclear about what you want.. Men opening doors for women implies one is more fit to do so than the other, whether you want to admit it or not. Are you also saying women should hold the doors for men? And if you are not saying that, why not? I thought you wanted equality? I am simply playing devil's advocate here and asking you to be more clear with exactly how things would work in your ideal world.

Answer 5

There are MANY women who don't believe men and women should be equal. My own mother is very sexist against women and I know several other women that lift their sons on pedestals while tearing down their daughters "to stay in your place." So, some of the people who are telling you they are "sick of feminists" are truly standing against what feminism is about.

Relative to the pregnancy and related questions, it's very sad that people are not willing to research and learn on their own especially when it comes to their own bodies. I cringe every time I read a response where someone says "just trust your doctor." Why in the world would a doctor or anyone else be more interested in your well-being than you would be? It's baffling.

Answer 6

I think feminism is going to far. They don't just what to be equal to men, they want to be men, to do everything man can do and to be as good at it. I'm all for equality, but men and women are different and have always had different roles in society.
There are, for instance, very practical reasons why women shouldn't fight on the front line, but to them it's still discrimination and thus evil male chauvinism.
In my opinion, you do have, for the most part, equality these days, but you're going much further:
I also think it's beginning to border onto ideas of female superiority as well. The same women who claim that all men are sexist pigs are in return far more sexist toward men.
They even get irritated about things like proper English grammar; ie they're trying to change it to accommodate gender-neutral pronouns. The idea that masculine pronouns can refer to someone of unspecified sex is apparently disgusting. English grammar has been around for thousand of years and no-one should try to change it on a whim.
Also men behaving chivalrous, maybe giving up a seat for a woman in a train, are often denounced as male chauvinists who want to keep women in their place.

Feminism has gone absolutely potty.

Answer 7

In 1982 I was at a womens rally (I had a feminist girlfried) in Providence Rhode Island. The rabid crowd chanted "I'm tired of f__kers f__king over me!" I think that kind of ugly extremist presentation of "equality" doomed the general popularity of feminism - the kind that means all genders are equal. And you gotta admit - some feminist writers were pretty loopy. I remember one book in a gender blah blah class in college that posited that male erections were unnatural and caused by some sick desire to oppress. So just as the republicans and democrats have to reign in their whack-jobs...so the feminists...

Answer 8

I have a problem with the question. Feminism is not that simple. The feminist agenda is not monolithic and why reduce being "interested in [your] own gender" to "birth control"??? Are women just baby-making machines?

Answer 9

Sadly, women think this way because the media (which is owned by men) sterotype feminists as CRAZY and man hating. Which is not true. :( As a result, feminists look bad.

Answer 10

Nope.

I'm sick of people pushing agendas.

Don't much care what the agendas are, it's the pushing that pisses me off, really.