[Ann]

The problem with feminism is that it is often confused with misandry, man-hating. Many young women do not want to be identified with the strident, bra-burning, abortion-demanding rebellion image that is associated with feminism. There can also be a new-age Wicca/Earth Mother connotation which may also be discomforting. The pressure is on to be normal, be accepting and not rock the boat. Pop culture wants women to either be a sultry sexpot or a nurturing Martha Stewart (and sometimes both!), and there isn’t much room left for equal treatment in the workplace or respect in everyday situations. Most people get their information from the media in quick sound bites and don’t really stop to think about what’s going on. They simply don’t care about other people’s problems and expect somebody else to take care of them while they get on with ordinary life.

User Detail :  

Name : Ann, Gender : F, Age : 22, City : Toronto, State : NA, Country : Canada, Education level : 4 Years of College, 

[CC19148]

To Cynthia: Fortunately, you have the right to choose the life that’s best for you. Don’t deny other women the right to choose what’s best for themselves, even if that differs from your own opinion. How would you like it if you lived in a country where looking like a debutante and ‘dressing pretty’ could get you killed? That’s all feminism is – the right to choose your own path without fear of reprisal.

User Detail :  

Name : CC19148, Gender : F, Age : 30, City : Boston, State : MA, Country : United States, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

[Carolyn]

I consider myself a feminist. By that, I mean that I feel an instinctive obligation to do whatever I can to promote the equality of my gender. However, I do feel like feminism as a movement is dead. I don’t feel like other women my age are even conscious of the idea, and from what I observe from Gen Y, these younger ladies may even want all the headways made in the last 30 years to revert back to the ‘traditional’ paradigm. So many young women seem to only want to get married and have babies, they don’t want anything else out of life. Not to say that isn’t fulfilling in its own right, I just don’t understand it because to me there is so much more out there in this world to experience. To me, being a housewife/mother has already been done many, many times before me and I want to have a unique existence, not a typical one. And the way girls dress now, I just don’t get it. You can be sexy and pretty without looking like a $10 hooker. I am ashamed of the sudden prevalence of truly self-deprecating behavior like I see on ‘Girls Gone Wild’ commercials. Furthermore, it seems like society blames feminism for a lot of our current problems. Maybe they’re right. I don’t believe women can ‘have it all,’ i.e. have a career and children. I think you have to make a choice. It’s just the way it is, unfortunately. Someone has to raise all these kids people are having; we can’t leave it up to television and the school system.

User Detail :  

Name : Carolyn, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Hispanic/Latino (may be any race), Religion : Atheist, Age : 27, City : Jacksonville, State : FL, Country : United States, Occupation : Scientist, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class, 

[Hero]

Cynthia, you are awful! ‘Radical feminist ideas’! Is it so radical for women to have the same rights as men? Women aren’t the same as men, but that doesn’t mean we all shouldn’t have the same rights as each other. I don’t see why women should have a different title when they get married-a man’s name stays the same whether or not he has a wife. ‘Go to university so they can take over a man’s job’. What on earth is a man’s job? And why do girls have to go to university so they can take over it? I’m going to university to study History. I’m doing it to learn more about history, not to get a job. However I feel I am entitled to have any job that I can do. I wouldn’t be taking a man’s job. An employer looks for a person who can do the job best. If I can do it better than a man why should he get the job? I can’t think of any job that only a man could do, except possibly a gigolo! I am not against marriage, although I wouldn’t do it myself, and I do think that if you have child then a parent should stay at home to look after it if that’s at all financially possible, as Bill says, but I don’t think that it has to be the woman (as Cynthia would no doubt suggest). I also think Bill is wrong in implying that feminism is the root of all evil. And by the sound of what Kelly says I don’t think we really want to return to the old days, and, Cynthia, contrary to your ideas it was not really the man’s job to look after the woman but for a woman to look after the man.

User Detail :  

Name : Hero, Gender : F, Race : White/Caucasian, Age : 17, City : Aberdeen, State : NA, Country : United Kingdom, 

[Dwanny]

It sure seems like it doesn’t it? I see these women (under 30) who seem to think a woman’s worth is measured by how trashy she is. I think it’s because they take what we have achieved for granted. What we fought for back in the 60’s and 70’s has somewhat been accomplished. We can now do any job we feel like, although we still have to take crap from men. We can buy anything we like without having to have a man sign for it. We still have a long way to go…for example:when the Clintons were in office, Hillary was criticized for daring to speak her mind, instead of being ‘the good little wife’. I don’t think men (and some women) will accept a woman president. Commercials still show the woman as the caretaker, which I know is usually the case, but why not show men caretaking. (and that’s another topic–why men are portrayed as weak for caretaking) When there’s a case of ‘the other woman’ she’s called a tramp, slut, etc; and it’s her that broke up the marriage, while the man is blameless. If there weren’t problems in the marriage, he wouldn’t have gone looking elsewhere. And the one that really upsets me is when the words ‘girls’ or ‘ladies’ is used as an insult in a group of men, esp; in athletics. Why do we still refer to something we don’t know the gender of as ‘he’? I’ve changed that–I say ‘she’ if I don’t know the gender. I could go on forever about one of my favorite topics–I came out of the womb a feminist, but, I think I’ll stop here.

User Detail :  

Name : Dwanny, Gender : F, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Pagan, Age : 53, City : Springtown, State : TX, Country : United States, 

[Author]

Posts