Would the women that consider themselves feminists mind a challenge?

Question

There's been a lot of talk about what feminism is & what feminism isn't lately.

Some people insist feminism is about equality.

Some people insist it isn't anymore.



I have an article written by a woman from the iwf (Independent Women's Forum) that challenges the conventional beliefs in the mainstream feminism.

If you're curios to see why people have objections to feminism, this explains it QUITE well:

http://www.iwf.org/news/show/19778.html

Did any of that seem reasonable?

I meant "curious" instead of "curios"

Answer 1

HAHA no, sorry, but Right Wing anti-feminist organizations just don't have a good grasp on the ideology of feminism. They don't explain any principles of humanism "quite well." Nice appeal to authority though (it was written by a woman? You don't say, well then it MUST be true).

You folks are so funny when you try to be sneaky.

Answer 2

I don't know if my two cents will be of any value to you, as I cannot speak from a feminist viewpoint. I grew up in the 60's and 70's and was there observing the whole thing through a young girls mind, but because I also had a different set of values based on God's view of marriage and husband and wife roles in the family unit, I was always somewhat turned off by the "feminist" agenda. Because I don't happen to believe that women ARE equal to men, and I don't mean they are any less worthy of respect or dignity by any account. So, I have never supported that way of thinking as a woman. I feel as though it has undermined the family, men's masculinity, and even God's own design of us as to our genders. Ironically, not long ago, I saw a video (I know for sure it was Aaron Russo, and I'm pretty sure it was the Freedom to Fascism one) but in it, he brought up a conversation he had with Nick Rockefeller saying that it was the CIA that actually funded and helped promote feminism back in the day to help Gloria Steinem with her campaign for "feminism". Apparently GS admits this information in a book she has written in the last few years. Either way, our own Government AND big-mouth women like her who helped change the structure of our society (in a negative way) were at the forefront. That's my take on the whole subject.

Answer 3

Well, I'm also one of those feminists from way back when, and I found things in this article that I agreed with and others that I did not.

When the day comes that I feel that I am viewed as an equal human and not as a person of lesser value because of my sex, then that is the day that I will agree that the Feminist Movement is no longer needed.
Perhaps for you younger people this is already happening, and you don't feel that way, but I still hear things like "Oh, she can't do that, she's a girl". To me, a person should be judged on their abilities alone and not judged on what their gender is first. When that discrimination disappears, this forum will no longer be needed.

Answer 4

GMA Joan you are wrong- I have been around a long time- got an education and the power jobs and still had a marriage and children.

Maybe those that didn't want those things THEN had the freedom to pursue only the career. I can understand not wanting to do what everyoen else does.

Answer 5

Yes, what she wrote was reasonable. I agree on a number of points, but I disagree on some points, too.

That's the problem with these "movements" - it's difficult to agree 100% with anyone, yet when you admit to agreeing on the majority of concepts, you get labelled and the opposing movement will subsequently judge everything you say based on your affiliation with a label you did not even select for yourself.

Growth comes to the open-minded. How does a closed mind learn?

Answer 6

I am a woman who went through the time of the "burn your bra" "I am Woman Hear me Roar" and the feminist marches. From personal experience, I am telling you feminists definitely are not feminine! I saw women who got power jobs and took power lunches and then somehow were left out in the cold when the age of 40 approached and she was left either single and/or divorced and childless and bitter when she found the sweet things in life had passed her by. (I said my piece and if you want to give me a thumbs down, go ahead, they don't bother me a bit.)

Answer 7

In America, it is true that women can achieve anything they have the capability to do. In other countries, we still need to assert women's right to equality.

Answer 8

Most of it is quite reasonable, but she was incorrect about married women being happier and healthier than single women, and she conveniently neglected to mention that the women who DO use day care are overwhelmingly satisfied with it.

Answer 9

Great article. We need more intelligent women like her putting the feminist in their place.