Why is femanism such a bad word today?

Answer 1

The Encarta Dictionary defines a ‘feminist’ as “….somebody who believes in the need to secure rights and opportunities for women equal to those of men...”. If that be so, then I am a ‘feminist’.
But a solemn reading of the feminist literature leaves one with a desire to redefine a ‘feminist’ as “….somebody who believes that the entire world is there to oppress women and a feminist protects her by viewing every person, action, legislation that affects women, with undiluted hostility and suspicion…”.

The feminist literature gives them a bad word, now-a-days.

Answer 2

It is unfortunate that most people associate the word feminist with b*tch or lesbian. A feminist is merely someone who believes in the rights of women. A feminist can be a male or female. It is a person who believes that women should get paid equal pay for equal work. Obviously if a man could do a better job, he should get that job and get paid better than someone who does not do as well, but for years and sometimes even today, women are treated as second class citizens. People need to get some wisdom and be more mature about things.

Answer 3

Feminism is a "bad" word because the feminists took the sex part out of the equation, and intellectually emasculated men. Why would I support a "feminist" if it means I don't get laid? Men are primarily motivated by sex, and with the barrage of anti-sex rhetoric that has occured in the last 30 years has made the term "feminist" as anti-sex as any fundamentalist could wish for. You want equal treatment? Fine. But when we give it to you, no fair whining about how we aren't being fair. You cannot argue for "equality" on the one hand and then insist on special treatment because of your gender on the other. Feminist rarely get laid, and when they do it's usually by a wimp-boy.

Answer 4

Because feminists have robbed women of their rightful roles and their rightful place in the home, the comfort of having a husband who will care for and support them, the satisfaction of nurturing and caring for their own husband and children and home. Most women today have to work outside the home. Most men expect their wives to work outside the home. The economy of today dictates that many women leave their children with strangers to bring home a second paycheck. Feminists have caused that. Women who bought into feminism have raised a generation of men who don't know how to be men. I could go on and on. That's only a few of the reasons feminism is a bad word.

Answer 5

Because feminists of the 1920s and 1960s accomplished the realistic goals their movement set out to achieve. The feminist ideal is a dead issue, it's laughable to still see women picketing and lobbying for stranger and more obsessive laws. Feminism is irrelevant today, as dead as the abolition movement to end slavery.

Today the feminist movement is only around to give people like Gloria Steinem a soapbox to preach their agenda and a way for them to get rich without contributing anything important. It's just a vehicle to get into political power.

Answer 6

It's because of the image they project. To be a feminist you have to not like men. I don't subscribe to that school of thought myself. I can be comfortable with myself as a woman and not have to put men down. I can do things for myself and not actually need a man, but having my husband around is much more fun than being a male basher and griping with my women friends.

Answer 7

All I have to say is, you should be what God (Jesus Christ) made you. If your a woman than act and behave like it;If your a man, then again act and behave like. And remember in the Bible in Genesis, the woman was made for the man, not the man for woman.

1 Corinthians 11:3-Now I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

1 Corinthians 11:7-A man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man.

1 Corinthians 11:8-For man did not come from woman, but woman from man;

1 Corinthians 11:9-neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.

Answer 8

I don't think it is a bad word necessarily. If you want equal rights (workign, voting, etc) thats cool. But I think some women get carried away, and we focus on those women. Some of us still thing women should be pregnant and at home. I want to work, and I have the right. Yay for me. But if a woman wants to have kids, and stay at home with them, yay for her. My rightful role is where I want it to be. I don't want to rule my household (when I get one that's not my mother's) I want to be an equal part of it. :)

Answer 9

Because it is a word usually associated with women who behave in a way that would be considered obnoxious regardless of their gender. No one likes a raging fundamentalist of any cause.

Answer 10

What does femanism mean?