Are you a feminist?

Question

Why or why not?

Answer 1

i am a feminist because i will not accept anything less than equal treatment for women.

BillD: I not only have a bf but he loves that about me. Men like you get intimidated by feminists because ot throws you off the "head of the household/protector/knight in shinning armour role". Frankly if i were a guy, i would want someone who would love me for who i am ie my passions, my beliefs, my heart; not for what i can do for them ie provide, protect. Live and let live

To dawnb: sounds like you are projecting dissatisfaction in your live on all females. My future husband will have to do an equal share of child raising and domestic duties or its not gonna happen. Your arguement sounds like this: because feminism hasn't reached its goal it should not have been started in the first place. I could say the same for slavery, racism and civil rights. Do you now see how ridiculous that assertion is

DoraL: equality is when neither of the sexes feel their options narrow down or dissappear after they have kids. It is women not having to define themselves by the baby hanging off their nipples. I personally believe every adult is responsible for their keep ie no grown adult who is capable of work should mooch off others. If you agreed with your husband that you take up all domestic duties and he works, good if that works for you. Personally, i have numerous goals and aspirations, child birth being one of them but just like men, not even having kids will limit my life or define me. I will take care of my kids but i will demand that my spouse who is equal parent has to put in equal time. Maybe he can't breastfeed but there's alot more to raising a kid than breastfeeding plus you only breastfeed a kid for less than one year out of their 18 years of life. I choose not to give up my life for the identity of mother. Mother will be just one aspect of the whole lot of wonderful accomplishments that make up who i am

Answer 2

I have read so many responses say things that don't make much sense. Several people claim that they are not feminists because they feel the female role in their relationship is in the home. Well, just because you want to work in your home and be with your children doesn't mean that you can't be a feminist. Being a feminist means that you respect the need for the freedom to do what anyone can do. Now if you feel that a woman shouldn't have the freedom to have a job our work outside the home, than that would mean you weren't a feminist. There is an ugly stereotype of the word "feminist". A stigma that keeps lines drawn in the sand between people who don't see themselves as these stereotypical feminists, and real feminists who can't understand why people don't understand them.

I also see messages claim that it is something akin to genetic. The man has a penis and thus is the hunter, and the woman is the caregiver. One hundred years ago, this is what many people believed. It wasn't until World War I that people realized that genetics was no basis to bind an entire sex to a lifestyle. Prior to WWI there was a dangerous affliction going around affecting women only. It was called hysteria and essentially was a complete mental breakdown. The majority of these women were documented as having diaries and literature and had made themselves somewhat vocal about their station in life. So, the psychoanalysits of the time believed that it was this desire to leave their "God given" station that caused them to breakdown. So the cure was stricter restrictions on what they were allowed to do. If any of you have read "The Yellow Wallpaper" than you are familiar with the type of "treatment" I am refering to. For many decades this was thought to be correct. But as I said earlier, World War I came around and changed all of that. For the first time ever, there were male patients admitted to sanitariums with hysteria. All of the patients had what is better known as "shell shock". Apparently having to force yourself into a role that you don't want to be in, and everything in your body tells you that you shouldn't be there you will slowly mentally degrade. So it is this freedom that is what is need for the physical body itself, not the other way around. Women obviously are not genetically predispositioned to be in the home. How can they be if their bodies are telling them different?

I also see that a few people claim that feminism has accomplished nothing. That is ridiculous. Feminism was at one time a powerful part of the civil rights movement. Feminism has produced some of the best literature since it can truly be said to arrive on the field in the mid to late 1800's. Feminism has given all women in this country the freedom to act on their rights as human beings. Without the contributions made by feminists the world would be a much different place. And it is for this reason that I am proud to say that I am a feminist.

Answer 3

Nah, but I'm a female chauvinist, i.e. women are superior to men. Frankly, I think I'm not a feminist because that's not encouraged, especially in my "culture." I think most black women really are more traditional and like for "the man to be the man," not that I agree with this, obviously, if I'm a female chauvinist. Also, along those lines, I just think the world would be better off if women were treated better than men and given more, if not all, the power. There wouldn't currently be a war for absolutely no reason, man-produced poverty, subjugations of entire races into slavery and other forms of inequality, and all this raping, killing and other crimes. So, no, I don't believe in sex equality.

Answer 4

Yes, I am a feminist. I believe that men and women are created equal. They may be different from each other, but nevertheless, none is superior to the other, and because they are different, they should complement each other.

Answer 5

no

because feminism usually backfires on women-feminists.
i mean men and women created equally, but some feminist go to extreme .
women want to be equal with men, its okay, but common ladies if your men drink like alcoholic, do you want to drink like alcoholic as well ? :)

women are mirrors of their men...no offense to ladies feminists. :)

Answer 6

in a quiet, gentle way, yes i am.

i think men and women should be equals, and work together. yin and yang, ya know...not one have power over the other.

Answer 7

Yes, because I believe in equal respect for the genders.

Answer 8

To some extent...but I'm not some psycho over it.

P.S. Tweeter probably takes it in the as$

Answer 9

Absolutely not. Whatever it was they thought they were trying to do backfired. What little changes were made were for all the wrong things leaving women trying to be superwomen but feeling nothing but frustration. They found out they really couldn't do it all and still weren't being paid the same.

Answer 10

If you say yes to this question, please be prepared for many boyfriends, unhappy marriages, and loads of curiousoity as to way you can never find the "right person of the opposite gender" Nothing says "Unattractive" more loudly than a NOW t-shirt or coercing guys to succumb to your opinion.