Are the remaining feminists trapped in a time warp?

Question

Are the remaining feminists trapped in a time warp, living in a past of their own making? It's sad to see them so much out of touch with reality. They persistently spout old-hat polemics, pontificating about things they know nothing about except for what they have been inculcated with in women's studies classes or the like.

How much sense does it make for some wet-behind-the-ears 19 year old girl to be pontificating about how "women have been oppressed for thousands of years" (apparently without knowing that men and women both have been oppressed at various times in history)? And some femmies still rant on about "votes for women", apparently unaware that men and women are now able to vote and have been able to do so for nearly a hundred years.

The bottom line is that successful women (be that success in a family context or in the workplace) have MOVED PAST FEMINISM with all that old emotional baggage.

How do you feel about it?

Answer 1

Every young woman goes through her feminist phase. Eventually (hopefully) they'll grow out of it when they see the rhetoric is not really compatible with reality and female behavior.

Answer 2

a minimum of be waiting to spell the be conscious, Rex.... "Feminism" is a international phenomomenon. that is not in basic terms a reason that being fought for in international locations like the U. S., the united kingdom or the different western civilization, that is something that each and one and all international locations are battling for that provide females an identical consumer-friendly human rights that adult men have. confident, all peoples have been oppressed in some unspecified time interior the destiny and time yet if actuality be advised, Rex, females have been oppressed for 1000's of years and that they are maybe the main opressed team than the different team in any subculture you could think of of. yet wager, what..? we are nevertheless being oppressed because of the fact as i discussed before, females do not in basic terms exist interior the western international, yet they exist around the international and that they are attempting to combat for his or her very own reasons there. Peel your eyes open and see what's occurring interior the lives of females in third international international locations and how they are dealt with, then come back and say that is nevertheless "previous emotional luggage."

Answer 3

I think there is a one time per question limit of the use of the word ''pontificating'' on yahoo answers.
Anyhoo... One should always respect ones elders, simply for the fact that they have seen more days. Even if the elder seems archaic and in the way, they deserve our respect. If a movement is well founded and truely contemporary, it will eventually be accepted by the masses. If there seems to be a lack of wind in the sails of the feminist movement it is probably because so much of what they wanted has been achieved, and now many of them come off as simply angry. Other than equal pay and benefits, which studies have shown are lower for women due to men having better negotiation skills, what is left for women to fight for through a feminist movement? At least in the western hemisphere.

Answer 4

I tend to agree with you to some extent on this. Certainly, there are places in this world where this is not true, but, I believe that across America and most of Europe, this is true.

I've visited Chinese sweatshops. They employ men and women. In most European nations, woman with technical and professional skills are as highly prized as men. In America, whole fields are dominated by women, and it is very difficult to get hired as a man. If you DO get hired, you are a distinct minority and made to feel like it.

Of course, there are places like areas of the Middle East and Africa and some smaller, war torn European areas (the Balkan Peninsula comes to mind) where women are still without many rights they enjoy in other places, but those are countries where human rights, on the whole, are not very highly regarded.

In the case of most industrialized nations, women have all the choices and opportunity men do.

I should go on to say, Celtish that I rarely agree with you 100%. Big deal. Your truth may not be my truth and nobody has to hate or kill over it. In this case, I believe you are definitely on to something.

Answer 5

In the global context feminism is still just as relevant now as it was 50 to 60 years. As caring human beings, and also for self preservation in a shrinking world, we are all encouraged to think globally. So what shouldn't the feminist movement follow this same path?

Answer 6

I am a successful woman, and yes, I believe that feminists are stuck in a time warp. Women have achieved equality. Feminism is not useful in 2007.

Answer 7

There is a lot of truth in that many women growing up now do not have the same battles for rights that their mothers and grandmothers faced. They have not borne oppression, and yet, I can sympathise with some of what you call "polemics and pontificating"

By way of counterexample, I remember very well who the cries for Scotland's political independence were stirred to boiling point by the realease of the film "Braveheart". Were the Scots being so ruthlessly exploited by the English in 1993? Personally I don't see it. But I do sympathise with the calls for independence, even though the modern day Scots are not being routed across Culodden fields.

And there is still prejudice, and there are still instances where rights are not respected. There is reason to identify with the struggles of the past. And the movement is an Internationalist one, it is not just about women in the US and Western Europe.

There is also good cause to recognise how much things have changed for the better.

As for being trapped in a time warp. There is a difference between recognising the struggles of the past and fixating on them at the expense of the present.

Answer 8

Most women have only stopped caring about feminism since all the RIGHTS have been won. What matters now is that women still aren't getting full respect for taking advantage of them.

Answer 9

Women have made a lot of progress in a short period of time. Making it to where they think that they have balls. They already have the rights that they fought for. If people don't choose to recognize them as equals that is on them. Some women have it bass-ackwards though.

Answer 10

How do I feel about it, you ask?
You are assuming I agree with the assumptions made in your rhetorical question.

And I don't.

Answer 11

WWII end in mid-1945. It wasn't until 1948 that the last Nazis were purged from German society. They had regular meetings and planned bombing.

Feminism is no different.