Who has feminism benefited more, men or women?

Question

Today, with so many single mothers, (of all ages) and so many biological fathers living like single men, I wonder where feminism has taken us. Now women still carry and raise the children, but have to work outside the home as well, while men's duties have only decreased. It's as if men have manipulated feminism into giving them what they want. Did we really 'take it to the man', or merely play into his game? Do you agree?

Answer 1

I agree 100%, I am a single mom, that works outside of the home and fanatasize about being a house wife. My life sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!! I feel men have it easy they have there cake and eat it too and still make more money than us and hired more than women are. And my daughter's father has to complain about the 200 he gets garnished every month. He wonders why I even need his money. Do you call that fair? I clothe, feed, transport back and forth to school, do homework, clean, cook, pay all the bills and he's complaining. Don't get me wrong I love being a woman, I love being a mother but those mom's in the 50's sure had it made. The feminist movement made it harder for women.

Answer 2

First of all, feminism is based on being EQUAL to everyone. Being able to have a job, getting paid the same amount as a man, etc. They do not focus on hating or bashing men. That is the main point of feminism. Feminism also believes in civil rights for minorities as well. Either way, even if feminism did not exist, single mothers still had to get a job. Poor women were always able to hold a job, it was the women who were born into money who wanted the rights before feminism was founded.

Answer 3

Feminism has been misunderstood. Feminisms real goal was to teach women to "take a stand" for herself. If men maniplate women in to "sleeping with them" if they're feminists, then feminism has failed those particular women. "Taking control of your own life" doesn't mean you have spread'em for every guy who points at you.

It should mean, "you have enough self-respect" not to get drawn in by men who make empty promises. You should have a working, healthy, educated, well-rounded mind to know your own self-worth. Your self-worth shouldn't be measured by how many men you can sleep with, but rather that you know your body is a temple and should be treated as such.

A woman, regardless of whether she's a feminist or not, knows which men to stay away from. Far away! If he's a manipulative type, don't go near him with a ten-foot pole. He may try to charm your pants off, because that's what he's good at, then you know he is not the one. Sure, he may say, "Well then, i'll just find another woman." Let him. He's not worth your time.

There are also many men who support feminism, and they know how to treat a woman with respect. He also stays away from women who obviously have no respect for themselves.

Do not blame feminism on "easy women" or "manipulative men". It has nothing to do with that at all. They are on complete opposites of the spectrum.

Women who have any self-respect will know better than to be manipulated by anyone, because she has a strong mind, she's independent, and usually self-sufficient.

Answer 4

i think to some extent, both men and women have benefited and been hurt by feminism. When taken too far, its a bad thing for everyone, but when looked at rationally and realistically and just in the sense that men and women are equal as humans and deserve to be treated as so, we all benefit. I dont really agree that men's duties have decreased, its simply that women have stepped up in their role as people that need to take an active role in society and not be the meak and helpless little mice that they were in the past.

Answer 5

Women are now able to do things, that back then, they could only dream of. Society has come very far from the stay-at-home, Barie-look-alike wife. (Far, but with some more to go.) I think that because we have more freedom, we take it for granted and forget the times where we had to always be beneath the man. Think about it; yeah, we have to do what we did before (with an extra added load) but we have an option to. Back then, all we could do was take care of the house and now, we can say 'I'm the man of the house dang it!' It may seem like we got the worst end of the bargain, but in reality, we got our independence, we got an oppurtunity to get educated, vote and do what only men could do before. We should try, not just to focus on 'the load' but on the important thing; what we gained. I should add, that I'm saying this as a child raised in a single mother home, where the father left before I was born. I know what it feels like to see mother under that stress, but I also know that I like the fact that I can say, "I can do anything you can buddy". I was the only girl on my schools wrestling team and trust me, I put up with some crap, but I didn't think of it that way. I more thought about the fact that I had the right to be in that room and nobody could take that away from me. Trust me, none of my coaches thought I would last so it suprised them all, when I, not only lasted until the end, but won third place at league. Yeah, I got my *** kicked many times but I kept going for us girls. Having the ability to say, "we are equal" means more to me than all the crap in the world.

Answer 6

While women have worked very hard to gain their rightful place in the working world, they have been quite slow in releasing control inside the home. I'm not sure if it's the belief that women can 'do it all', or some sense that they're weak if they can't juggle home life and work, or if they feel that their husbands are incapable of caring for the kids or home.
I don't think that it's a matter of men not stepping up to play a larger role in the home, I think that women aren't LETTING their husbands play a larger role. You can't, criticize a man for not caring for the family and home while at the same time criticizing his different approaches.

So yes, women do have to work outside the home, if they choose. They also have the choice to let their partners play a larger role in the home life.

Answer 7

Feminism has given us the right to vote, to speak our minds, and generally to be equals- not just pretty furniture. Do you really want to go back to what it was before, where we were expected to be submissive and without equal rights?

And women don't have to do any of those thing above mentioned. We have choices now. And stay at home Dad's. We are evolving culturally, so there are going to be adjustments.

WE NEED FEMINISM. People, open your eyes. Women, do you relly feel like men and women should be treated differently. We are all people. This is not about bashing men, because that is counter productive. It's about EQUALITY.

Answer 8

First, women chose that they wanted to get laid all the time without getting married first, so that is the main reason behind children born out of wedlock. Women also hold all the choices when they get pregnant, the man in the relationship basically has to go along with whatever she decides (adoption, abortion, or forcing him to make child support payments for a kid he didn't even want). Women have been hurt in some areas and helped in some areas by feminism. But men are screwed over the most. Women at least have choices when it comes to reproduction.

Answer 9

There are two sides to femmenism .
The right to vote , to get good jobs that stuff is cool.

What disappoints men is the evil side of femmenism .many of you women will have children some of them are going to be boys. When these boys grow up there gonna be facing a lot of the dilemmas that men of today face.So when a guy says , "hey look this is my perspective" listen to him just as he listens to you.

To earn our trust women need to police there ranks , just like men police our ranks .There are a few women who police there ranks but sadly they are too few and get shouted down at every turn .

Remember two decades time and your sons are gonna go thru what we do .

Answer 10

Feminism has certainly benefited women but the struggle is far from complete. There are many females who are still working in sweatshops and living in deplorable conditions. We as a society need to help our sisters who are still in bondage. Wages are getting better but in this time the United States government is attempting to take back the reproductive rights of women. It is imperative that women take a stand against these biased principles or our daughter will be existing in the same servitude as our ancestors.