Do feminist mothers bring up better men?

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Answer 1

A well rounded and loving mother and father is the best solution. Anything else is a poor second.

Answer 2

There are a lot of weird ideas here of what a feminist is. As usual people are confusing feminism with man-hating and lesbianism.

A feminist simply doesn't believe that women should be treated as second class citizens and that they have equal rights with men.

Mothers with more rounded views like these will bring up better children - boys and girls.

Answer 3

The problem with these feminists is that they're not teaching men how to approach modern, how to attract women. So, their sons grow up with a profound respect for women. But, they are also completely ignorant about how to pursue sexual interests with women. After all, sex can only be initiated and pursued by women, right? Otherwise, it's rape according to these feminists, isn't it?

BOYS NEED GUIDANCE, not brainwashing. If a boy needs to know what to do in a certain situation... like trying to kiss a girl, a parent should guide him... not castrate him for having that desire.

Answer 4

opportunitiesere actually knew what feminist means, 'a person who believes women should have equal rights and opportunities to men',

Then surely they would want their sons to grow up a respect women and not think they are stupider or not as important as them simply because they have a vagina.

I am a feminist and I will bring my children up to believe in equality. Believing women are equal does not make the sons weak or have low self esteem. That's just ridiculous to link the two!

I wish people would stop thinking feminists have extreme negative attitudes towards men. I have a long term boyfriend who I love, my dad is a fantastic man and so are my brothers. I have lots of male friends and any feminist who hates men is not a feminist. Because feminist means equality not supremacy.

It is easy to look at these fake feminists and tarnish every real one with the same brush but it is not right or fair.

Answer 5

It depends on what kind of feminist they are. I am heavily involved in youth soccer. I see children and parents all the time. I know one soccer mom who has two daughters and a son. She is a vocal feminist. She will denigrate men even her husband with her son standing right there. She always makes the boy take the back seat and second place to his sisters. As a result, he resents his sisters very much. I don't think he's going to be good husband material when he grows up.

Answer 6

If you mean bringing up a male by herself, they experience much the same problems as any child brought up by a single parent. A child raised without both parents experience a 400% higher rate of involvement in crime, drugs, and early sexual activity. Being a feminist doesn't change this part. The problem with being a feminist is the development of an extreme attitude toward anything male. Also, that though women are equal in doing jobs, they are no equal in being responsible for doing jobs, and other related factors. You don't see feminist pushing women to enter fields that normally get men killed 700 times more often, but yet demand the same levels of pay.

How do you teach a boy that it is his responsibility to take a job that has a 700 times greater chance of getting killed on the job, but cannot earn more than safe jobs mostly done by women? How do you tell a boy that he has to pay child support, or spousal maintenance, but women shouldn't, even if he was a young boy when he got an adult woman pregnant? How do you tell a boy that a woman can abort a child, to avoid the responsibility for caring for a child, but the man cannot abort his responsibility for a child? How do you tell a boy that high schools teach females about breast cancer, though it is not an immediate problem for them, yet not teach the boys about testicle cancer, though it is the #1 cancer for male age 15-35?

Finally, how do you teach a boy that though there are over 200, fully funded federal commissions to study women's health issues, but there is not one funded federal commission on men's health, though men die of several times more often of suicide, die earlier from heart disease, and whose death rates from prostate cancer is greater than the rates from Breast caner?

I left one out. How do you tell a boy that though his wife can go to a shelter for battered women, if he is beating her, there are no places for him and his children to go if she is abusing them. Further, if he defends himself, or the children, he can be arrested for abuse and he cannot have custody of the children under the Federal Violence Against Women Act.

Answer 7

Don't confuse 'anti men' with 'feminist'.
I'm a feminist, I don't believe I am a second class citizen because of my sex. I have raised a decent assertive young man who has self respect and respect for others. He has his own opinions and attitudes. He's not a mummies boy, or dependant. He has friends of both sexes.
You've fallen for every stereotype in the media. Thats your problem.

Answer 8

i doubt it, if your a decent parent you bring up your child the best you can, obviously the home they come from has a great in pact on who they are but as they grow they develop their own ways in life, some do it the same as their parents some do it different,

Answer 9

i don't know whether im feminist or not cos im marreid second time and i have 3 boys and they don't see their father very often and my second husband isn't obliged to spend his time on them. i spend a lot of time with them - i go to gym with the elder one, i enrolled them into carate school and music school to develope all sides in them - physical and intellectual and i told the elder ones about girls and how they should behave with them. im not soft with them - i make them fix whatever problems they have themselves. i don't mother them very much. so i say it doesn't matetr whether a woman is a feminist or not as long as she knows how to upbring her children to make them perfect persons

Answer 10

I happen to think that they do bring up better men....They give them a seance that a woman is equal, and therefore treated equally. My husbands mother is a feminist and i married him for his thoughts on woman and how he made me feel on the issues of woman's rights