What is the point of feminism?
March 14th, 2010Is it working towards achieving anything in specific???
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Feminism, for me at least, is more about dispelling the stereotypes about women - that they can't parallel park, that they don't know what they are doing in the gym, they are fragile and too emotional, etc. I am a great parallel parker, I can do 10 pull ups, lift weights 4 times a week, and am very logical and analytical. I don't like that people assume things about me that are so far from true, just based on my gender. Is this so much to ask? Does that make me a terrible man-hating person? Not to my knowledge, or my boyfriend's.
The goal of feminism is to allow women the same agency and power as men and cease gender based violence and abuse. To protect and shield women from exploitation they have achieved this thru a number of ways;
Family planning centres
rape crisis agencies
battered wife shelters
eqaulity legistlation
control of contraception
childcare
These areas are contested and open to changing, feminist seek to make the best possible use of these shelters for women which depends on their viewpoint. This is not to suggest that all women working within these agencies or with them are feminists but many of them are. And many who have founded and fought for them are specific types of feminists with specific agendas and capacities for reform.
The progress so far can be seen as a marrying of their ideologies with real world and practical world of social movements where ordinary working women may partially agree but are not feminists simply sympathisers and people who benifit from the feminist agendas
The specifics:
Liberal Feminism: Legal eqaulity
Marxist feminism: Socialist revolution to free women
Radical feminism: Destruction of masculinity and femininity flexible displays of masculinity and feminity by both genders, birth and reproductive controls for women.
Radical Cultural feminism: Seperation of men and women. Women sexually satisfying themselves; use of motherhood as power.
Socialist feminism: Socialisation of childcare, eradication of male based nuclear family forms. Socialist revolution.
Postmodern: Battle for control of knowledge claims to knowledge.
All of these are the specific goals but many of these are intersected among feminists. They are like all people not as rigid as classification systems.
Lighten up, life's too short! :-)
Often modern Feminists like to have evidence for how many men have been slaughtered. I tend to err on the side of acting proactively before a single human life is lost to a philosophy or ideology. If only the world stopped A. Hitler before he was in a position to kill millions, an awful lot of lives would've been spared.
About the 23rd attempt to assassinate A. Hitler almost worked, but the bomb went off after he'd left the facility where he was speaking. If this assassination had worked millions of lives would have been saved and WW2, as we know it, would've been averted.
Waiting for evidence of people dying is akin to ostriches who bury their heads in the sand. I'd prefer to act preemptively when I see an imminent threat rather than waiting for atrocities to occur (call me a bit nutty).
they want rights they better fight
And those who are feminists in this day too should learn tolerance and be willing to work at it to improve the quality of life but this yes requires genuine love and many people laugh at that sort of deep love... Who ever thought love only starts in the form of lust was sadly mistaken.. The levels of love are HIGH. And if people continue to settle for mediocre love, the outcome would never improve to any sort of significant solid ground .......
I know I don't know it all but love seems to work... Why would it not is this respect?
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