Do the women of today find feminists relevant?

Question

Seriously...they had their place and purpose, but do they really have a cause in America in 2007?

...obviously men and women can answer, but I'm really trying to hear from as many women as possible

Answer 1

no, i believe that women are no better than men and men are no better than women. Everyone should be treated the same regardless of gender. Feminists don't even give men a chance most of the time, and I'll tell you what, it's mostly cause some guy in middle or high school burned them and they are bitter.

There are good men out there ladies!!! no need to turn into raving lesbians!!!

and for gods sake, put on a bra

Answer 2

Yes. In the work force women are still battling with pay equity. Many employers do not consider that a woman may be the breadwinner for her family and they pay women less than men. Statistically women earn about 76% of what men make working in the same field.

Answer 3

Third-wave feminism seeks to challenge or avoid what it deems the second wave's "essentialist" definitions of femininity, which (according to the third wave) often assumed a universal female identity and over-emphasized the experiences of upper middle class white women. A post-structuralist interpretation of gender and sexuality is also central to much of the third wave and helps to account for its heightened emphasis on the discursive power and fundamental ambiguity inherent in all gender terms and categories. Third wave theory usually encompasses queer theory, women-of-color consciousness, post-colonial theory, critical theory, transnationalism, ecofeminism, and new feminist theory.

Third wave feminists often focus on "micropolitics," writing about forms of gender expression and representation that are less explicitly political than their predecessors. They also challenged the second wave's paradigm as to what is, or is not, good for females.

Answer 4

Until we have a female president, and at least 50% of the US Senators and Representatives are women, and either 4 or 5 of the Supreme Court justices are women, and at least 50% of CEOs of Fortune 500 companies are women, and they all get paid as much as the men who do those same jobs..... YES.

Answer 5

I think feminism has a crucial place. Feminism and Humanism are beginning to merge. Its not just about women's liberation it is about human liberation, from gender itself. Gender is social expectation, it is segregated social expectation. Gender itself perpetuates human inequality and the newest wave of Human-Feminism is taking on masculinity and femininty both and debasing them at every angle.

For a report on some gendered inequalities still present today (and really great examples of it) please follow the first link below. Two other links are to cutting edge human-feminism gender and sex education communities.

Answer 6

Nope.

And Baba Yaga, if women today find feminism revelan, then how come all of the above women said no? Aren't you generalizing anyway, which you said was bad?

Answer 7

Yes.

Answer 8

My dream is to open a feminist bookstore called "Sappho's Closet" Of course the humor section will be real small.

Answer 9

Feminism has pretty much always been irrelevant.

They were good for countering the so-called "Enlightenment" that said that women were not much more than ornaments...other than that it's not really needed.

Answer 10

Ok take this example... are dogs barking relevant? and... do that barking mean something? Probably, but maybe only them can understand it.