What do you think of Feminism?

Question

I’m curious to know what people think of feminism….has it changed meaning for you….do you consider yourself one? (yes guys can be feminist too)

Answer 1

I think feminism is great. However, people must remember that biggest obstacles in feminism is NOT MEN, but actually women. It is a woman's movement for rights and it is up to them to break social tradition and gain rights. I know this may give me a lot of thumbs down, but it is true. It is up to women, not men, to make their their voices are being heard and goals being met.

Answer 2

Other than certain things like equal pay for equal work and women having more opportunities in their careers, I think the feminist movement has been one for the worst things that has happened in this country. I am a woman, too. It has caused the destruction of the family unit. Kids now are raising themselves because both parents (if they even have 2 parents) are working. My personal opinion is the woman should stay home with the kids and the man should be the one working to support them. Note: I didn't say she should HAVE to, but I think she should. I just think this country was in better shape when women stayed home....like in the 50's and 60's. Men were more chivalrous then, too. They treated women like ladies and not as "one of the guys."

Answer 3

I do. In an age where we prize "diversity" women are too often lost in the shuffle. We rail at corporations who don't have black executives and ignore the fact that one v.p. out of 8 is a woman. Blacks make up around 10% of the U.S., women...over 50%.

When "isms" become the center of one's belief system, however, I lose interest.

Reading some of the great literature about being a woman is instructive for guys. Above all others, read DeBeauvior and Doris Lessing.

Answer 4

Feminism is a movement that confront the issues/ideas of women in this post-modern era and beyond the present, how women struggles, survives and progress. I am guy and a feminist in some way, women for me I think began to fight the world that prearranged them as an object.

Answer 5

Feminism, if it champions the equality of Women and Men while acknowleging there are differences, is a great idea.Any idea taken too far is a bad idea.

Answer 6

Feminism comprises a number of social, cultural and political movements, theories and moral philosophies concerned with gender inequalities and equal rights for women.

According to some, the history of feminism consists of three waves.[1][2] The first wave in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the second in the 1960s and 1970s and the third from the 1990s to the present.[3] Feminist Theory developed from the feminist movement.[4][5] It takes a number of forms in a variety of disciplines such as feminist geography, feminist history and feminist literary criticism. Feminism has changed aspects of Western society. Feminist political activists have been concerned with issues such as a woman's right of contract and property, a woman's right to bodily integrity and autonomy (especially on matters such as reproductive rights, including the right to abortion, access to contraception and quality prenatal care); for protection from domestic violence; against sexual harassment and rape;[6][7] for workplace rights, including maternity leave and equal pay; and against other forms of discrimination.[8][9][10] Throughout most of its history, most leaders of feminist social and political movements, and feminist theorists, have been middle-class white women, predominantly in Britain, France and the US. At least since Sojourner Truth's 1851 speech to US Feminists, however, women of other races have proposed alternative feminisms. This trend accelerated in the 1960s with the Civil Rights movement in the United States and the collapse of European colonialism in Africa and Southeast Asia. Since that time, women in former European colonies and the Third World have proposed alternative "post-colonial" and "Third World" feminisms as well.[11] Some Third World feminists or Postcolonial feminists, such as Chandra Talpade Mohanty, are critical of western feminism for being ethnocentric.[12] Black feminists, such as Angela Davis and Alice Walker, share this view.[13]

Since the 1980s, standpoint feminists have argued that the feminist movement should address global issues (such as rape, incest, and prostitution) and culturally specific issues (such as female genital mutilation in some parts of Africa and the Middle East and glass ceiling practices that impede women's advancement in developed economies) in order to understand how gender inequality interacts with racism, homophobia, lesbophobia, colonialism, and classism in a "matrix of domination."[14][15] Some feminists have argued that gendered and sexed identities, such as "man" and "woman", are social constructs.[16][17][18]

Answer 7

What I want to know,is where were all the feminists when Clinton was raping,and abusing women.I have lost all respect for the movement because of that.No true man can be a feminist.

Answer 8

I was raised a feminist, so it hasn't changed much meaning for me. Yes, I'm a feminist, and I think most people are and just don't know it.

Answer 9

i consider myself a feminist, but i do not respect the ones who feel the need to be ABOVE men: i am for EQUALITY, not a matriarchy. i also feel like a lot of women who consider themselves feminists should realize that if we achieve perfect equality, that will put women equal in things they might not want to do, like stand in the drafting lines: that whole "protect the childbearers" will be null and void.

Answer 10

I think that being too much of a feminist can be harmful. But it is improtiant to be confident and indepent; part of that includes standing up for youself in gender conflicting circumstances. But when you are obsessed about it, it becomes hindering to your everyday life and becomes your life.