Feminists: What traditional roles do you still believe in?

Answer 1

Ultimately, I think that each couple should work out their own gender roles themselves. I don't think it's safe anymore to make sweeping generalizations and expect them to be in any way binding, when each couple and each individual is different.

One thing which I do believe can apply in most cases, though, is that women should be the ones who make the decisions in regards to the children. We are naturally better at this, just as men are naturally better at some other things.

Answer 2

Feminism is an all you can eat restaurant, which any body makes his/ her food with the recipe that likes it more. There is no defined menu; no particular food, but important is while you are there try to eat as much as you can. The bills will be send to judges, and then they will put men in jail for not being able to pay for it. They don’t have any social, political, ideological specifications which can be defined as the “feminism” lines. In each event, any fraction has her own reactions, based on almost nothing reasonable. Feminism is a combination and not a result of different type of view points. It is the mixture and portions of various old and new ideologies. which mainly are anarchist, opportunists, revisionist, individualism. That is why for many of us is hard to categorize them. To understand what the S…they are talking about. Even if all different part of it comes from different ideologies, but in her total is nothing than a garbage salad. Being a combination makes it subject of being extreme of any or all of these mixture at each moment while in next event can be completely reverse. There is no believes or ideology behind it, it is made instantly regarding the individual and circumstances, and what that feminist feels. Tradition means, believing in some thing, other than your self. There are some principals to follow which can not be change each moment because of “I FEEL SO”. There are hard situations which obligate you to leave lots of your wells and your personal enjoyments. This is not made for feminism. BUT I AM A FEMINIST.

Answer 3

I see heavy lifting as men's work...I am happy to clean inside (including toilets) while my husband owns the responsibilities outside...including the taking out of the garbage.

I was raised by a sahm, and she did all the cooking. So I do it too...as well as all the dishes. I am proud of my kitchen and my home, and don't see it as degrading, demeaning, sexist or unfair for me to work in it. I am better at laundry, and have the time to do it...so I do.

As for career choices - I think they are dependent upon the individual. There are men and women highly qualified for ALL levels of the corporate world...and I think the best suited for the job should have it, be they man or woman.

Answer 4

It's hard for me to say role, because when I think of a 'role' I see it as something that should apply to all people. Which goes against everything that I believe about individual uniqueness.

So for me, the 'role' that I play out myself is cooking and cleaning. I love to cook, passed down from my beloved grandmother who was about as traditional as it gets, and cleaning? lol I fully admit to being an anal-retentive neat freak. Honestly I don't trust anyone else to clean 'right' LOL I have my system :-P.

And of course I'm addicted to shoes, perfume, beauty regimens, and cry like a baby during just about every 'chick flick' out there.

Answer 5

I agree with Jurydoc - anything that is truly a choice. I am extremely stereotypically feminine when it comes to clothes and my passion for shoes and I am also somewhat high maintenance, but at least I'm smart enough to recognize where that comes from, and why I'm doing it.

A lot of people have this weird misconception about feminism that if a woman admits weakness in a stereotypically male area, she is no longer a feminist, and that she wants equality only when it suits her.... and this is what I mean: One of the French doors to our living room came off one of its hinges and yesterday, I got out the twisty screw thingy and tried to fix it, but the holes were too big and I couldn't. After about half an hour, I wanted to rip my hair out and I just gave up. When my boyfriend got home from work, I told him I tried to fix it but couldn't, and he very casually says, "I know - we either need plugs or bigger nails. We'll have to go to Home Depot and buy some."

Tell me I need to hand in my feminist card if you want, but there are just some "manly" things I am not good at.

Answer 6

That the woman carries a child to term and gives birth to it.

Answer 7

Any that are the result of the true CHOICE of the role-taker.

Answer 8

Nurturer..I don't see anything wrong with wanting to be one. :)

I think that a wife or mother is not a "traditional role" it is a simple fact (if you are a wife or mother) and you can be either or both and more.

Answer 9

I think women should still (on the most part, there are exceptions) take the role of lead parent. On the most part women have thousands of years of parenting that has become natural instinct.

NOTE: I do not consider my self a feminist.

Answer 10

I think the only thing we can actively base on gender is the childbirth OPTION. And I do mean option.