What is your view on Feminism? Is it still relevant in our 'equal rights' society?

Answer 1

My wife says she does not want to be my equal as she does not want to come down to my level.

Answer 2

We are still not equal to men but in some ways it is women's fault, for an example women still earn on average 70% of men's income, this is to do with the field of work women go into. Men tend to go into building and construction which pays well and engineering.
Then there is the double standards where a man who has a child in his 60s get a slap on the back and congratulated, whereas if a woman has a child in her 60s the longer lived sex, she gets called selfish, and yet my argument is that women will never be equal with men until the abolition of the menopause happens, because women only have to about 52 years of age,at most to have a child, it puts women at a great disadvantage in life as women have to choose between career and being a mother, and trying to find the very difficult thing to find Mr Right in such a short time.

Also we live in a society where women are still valued for their youth, for an example the soon as a male gets into his 20s he wants to be called a man, whereas for females they like to be called girls even if they are in their 30s which is quite ridiculous, they are women. The reason for this is because in the past women didn't have a status, so a man's worth was his power and a woman was loved for the lack of it. Also we have a Miss world but no Master world, so basically women are still looked upon as sexual objects, and men are still loved for their position even though things are changing, and with books like "The boy" by Germaine Greer, which is looking at how beautiful the boy is, compared with the girl, and she says in the past it was always the boy that was painted rather than the girl, because it was the boy who was considered beautiful, so maybe us females should take a leaf from this book and demand a Master World, for boys aged between 16-22, this would enable women to feel comfortable with younger men, and get rid of the stigma of women marrying younger men.
So yes feminism is still relevant in society today because we are still not equal to men, and we have a long way to go.

Answer 3

I have always had utter contempt for it. It has contibuted more to the breaking down and moral decline in society than anything else I can think of. Women and Men have always been equal, but they are not the same. We should be complimenting each other not competing with each other. Every area of life has been feminised, there are no male bastions to retreat and escape to.

Feminist agendas, have ruined the traditional family and encouraged single parenthood, undermined boys in the education system, undermined males in the workplace, made the family courts unfair to males, created outrageous rape laws, encouraged abortion as morally OK. Helped to create a touchy feely, nannying society. It is interesting to note, that, with the increasing influence of feminism over the years, there seems to have developed an equal and opposite correlation with immorality and breakdown in society generally.

I am prepared for all the thumbs down and other comments. But I am still right.

One final point, women will always have more personal power through their sexuality. This is something that todays metrosexual males keep overlooking.

Answer 4

Like any ideology, I think it gets ridiculous and filled with double-standards when it's taken to an extreme. For example, if you actually do the research, instead of going along with whatever regurgitated phrase you hear without questioning it, you'll find that a number of feminists' claims are simply false: the rape statistics are not "1 in 3", there is no huge rise in domestic violence during Superbowl half-time, and gender is not a 100% social construct. I know some people don't want to hear that, but the facts speak for themselves.

To ask whether feminism is relevant today begs the question of what "feminism" really is. I most certainly believe in equal rights for women, but I do not identify as a feminist. Please re-read that last sentence. I don't see women using "feminism" as a call for equal rights for women in cases where things are biased towards men. Instead, I see middle to upper-class white women using it as a way to claim "victim" status.

Answer 5

Interestingly enough, we seem to be in a post-feminist society. The movement began, was successful, fought off a backlash, split in two, and petered out.
Since that time, women now have a true choice whether they want to work in the home or work outside of the home. During the movement, at least until the mid-80s, any woman who stayed in the home was making a statement about her views of the feminist movement. Staying home was not really an option for political reasons.
Now, in the post-feminist time period, women have achieved true choice. They can work in or out of the home without anyone questioning their choices, or assuming an political importance in the decision.

Just like the above example, time will work on the side of women having just as many options as men. What was once revolutionary becomes commonplace, and women move inexorably toward full social, political, and even economic equality (a much better record of equality than on the racial front, I might add)

Answer 6

Its relevant to the massive breakdown in society, its relevant because prior to the feminist movement children grew up in a stable family unit that ensured that there was a balanced understanding of both male and female attributes which I might add were at that time well defined through the natural differences inherent in all of us which mean we grow differently and so are better suited to different tasks. Man is instinctively more aggressive and can sustain and recover quicker from periods of sustained endurance. We have harder bones and skin and it is in our nature to protect those who we let close to us and so we hunt or work to provide those close to us with an environment that is a close as possible optimised to allow the female to perform the things instinctive to her nature both are required and both are of equal importance we are made to be equal and opposite so that we compliment each other in every way .Adam is in search of his missing rib from which god created eve the saying"you complete me" is as powerful to us both because it is that union we crave and that is why a marriage should take place it's a celebration being whole again and joined like the ring forever. That is what the feminist movement has destroyed I wouldn't mind but you'd think that women may want to use this equality to break away not spend all their lives trying to become the same as men you must really feel inferior and in that respect you will always be and so we have the single parent phenomena which is unbalanced and leads to a frustrating lack of understanding between the sexes and then their are the men who are developing an id crisis because they need to adopt some female attributes and don't know where to stop and of course violent crime as the aggression rises inside the man who's now unable to provide the things his instinct tells him is his job because to afford to live now requires both incomes to pay the bills and so more family's fall apart whilst all the time your kids are being deluged with conflicting information from the Internet and cable and are unable to decide whats right because they never see there parents and rely on Pier groups to guide them, I think you get my drift.

Answer 7

Most women that I have been with don't want to be my equal. They want to be my master. This equal rights and feminism has not changed my life as I was raised by a very assertive women (my mother) and every women I have met have turned out to be this model of every other women i came in contact with.
While I was dating several women (not all at once) I could see only about two women that I think would have been submissive types and I was too stupid at the time to see that they were my dream mate but I just took them for granted. I guess I thought that the grass was always greener. Or I was not mature to handle a real women as know I know after three marriages that a man is not mature enought for marriage. Amen.!ps. and this last marriage has been 21 years now but I married a women of another cuture (Filipina) and our life is not perfect but I can live under her rule! lol

Answer 8

Feminism, as a social movement, will continue until women have the same opportunities as men and are represented in a more proportional way.

As others' have said women are not equal in pay, status, class or proportionally represented in lifes' problems eg poverty, discrimination.

Also in terms of politics, higher education, careers etc women are given less opportunities, it is seen as less acceptable for women here than men.

Overall, My opinion is that the opinions and views of society need to be altered so that women have equal opportunities in life - this does not mean that they actually need to be the same though.

Answer 9

The problem is, we DON'T live in an equal society yet, hence there still being a need for equality laws etc (surely if women were deemed equal by society, we would not need court cases to prove this fact?)

Similarly, on a global scale, feminism has a lot still to do. Women are still forced into arranged marriages, are still victims of honour killings and still suffer economically (a recent reseach paper re:AIDS pointed out that for many women in 3rd world countries, prostitution is the only economically viable choice they have).

And, quite rightly, when we debated this in a recent class, one girl pointed out that whilst rape still exists, feminism still has a role.... when a guy pointed out that men get raped too, she rightly pointed out "by other men!".

Until women are treated AUTOMATICALLY as equals then feminism still has work to do.

Answer 10

Feminism is approximately equality. it relatively is it. that's no longer approximately dragging adult men down and putting women persons first, that's approximately boosting the two genders to equality. With that for the duration of strategies, i in my opinion do no longer understand the way human beings can elect to no longer be feminist. how are you able to be anti-equality. it relatively is a rant, sorry. in any case, women and adult men persons are somewhat different, i will grant that. even though, the two make contributions to society. the two are mandatory. Now on the subject of the pay element. women persons DO gets a commission decrease than adult men ON commonplace. the US Census Bureau has the info, in case you have an activity. i do no longer think of that's everywhere close to fifteen%, yet there is an incredibly great gender hollow. it relatively is my enter. :-)

Answer 11

I agree with Debbie D. Unfortunately, there are still too many shortcomings in "your" struggle for equal rights, such as in the business world. Feminism is no threat to me. I have enough security within myself as a masculine male to handle it, whether it is an attitude or a position in today's society. Women also deserve more credit for duel roles many perform day-in and day-out as a mother, homemaker, and at the workplace. Go tell your husbands/boyfriends/and bosses you want a raise!