Anna Quindlen:
It's important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders. It's the expectations that parents have for their daughters, and their sons, too. It's the way we talk about and treat one another. It's who makes the money and who makes the compromises and who makes the dinner. It's a state of mind. It's the way we live now.
2007-09-27 20:47:50 · 6 answers · asked by edith clarke 7 in Social Science ➔ Gender Studies
I agree with it completely. Even the detractors to the feminist movement have to grudgingly agree that the egalitarian views contained therein have benefited everyone to some extent.
For example, you could walk up to the most conservative, gun-totin', Bible-thumping, backwater hick in the whole damned country and threaten to take away her right to vote and she'd be at your throat. She may not align herself with the movement, but it has shaped her worldview more than she probably realizes.
2007-09-27 21:00:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Women have come a long way from the early 1900"s, that's for sure. But we still don't have equal pay for equal work. We still face discrimination in other areas. Women in other cultures and other nations face horrible discrimination. They should be helped.
Feminists shouldn't quit before they win all.
2007-09-29 14:16:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
In modern Western liberal democracies, it makes sense to think of feminism in those terms to some extent, not that the word hasn't other equally legitimate uses.
For much of the world, no.
2007-09-28 04:17:27 · answer #3 · answered by Gnu Diddy! 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
it makes a lot of noise and says very little. (feminism never was a 'group of organisations'. the trades unions council is a group of organisations. feminism was, and is, an ideology).
it will appeal to people with strong opinions (particularly strong opinions in agreement) who are none to fond of thinking things through.
it should do well here.
2007-09-28 06:52:23 · answer #4 · answered by synopsis 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's also the way we belittle our sons at school, just as much as it's the way our legal system coddles certain offenders, and who the police automatically arrest when they respond to a heated domestic argument.
2007-09-28 10:24:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
I don't know about that I had never heard of it until I came on here.
2007-09-28 04:03:29 · answer #6 · answered by Johno 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋