So apparently people like this are rare...

Ste Fishkin said:

Feminist = someone who thinks women should be equal.

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Ste Fishkin said:

Feminist = someone who thinks women should be equal.

Are you therefore a feminist? Please vote in poll.

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Conor said:

Is that what it means? I thought it was an institute for women with extreme leg hair and no knowledge of how to cook.

Damn, do I feel silly.

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Conor said:

Is that what it means? I thought it was an institute for women with extreme leg hair and no knowledge of how to cook.

Damn, do I feel silly.

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HoNeYBiRD said:

Poll needs an "Other" option too.

Because if you put it like that and we take into account that definition only, sure, i'm a feminist. But when i see what some extreme feminists do under the flag of feminism, than i'm clearly not one of them and i cannot be a bigger meninist in those cases.

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dee_emm_tee said:

I am a feminist in the sense that I think men and women should be equal.
I am not a feminist in the sense that I agree with the inaccurate, misleading statistics and dogma that is perpetrated by the modern feminist movement.

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Wilhelm Squee said:

In all fairness, that is a very accurate description of me.

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Conor said:

Is that what it means? I thought it was an institute for women with extreme leg hair and no knowledge of how to cook.

Damn, do I feel silly.

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Radical Feminism
Perhaps the stereotype of feminists that we discussed before is most closely associated with our first type of feminism, called radical feminism. Radical feminism is a movement that believes sexism is so deeply rooted in society that the only cure is to eliminate the concept of gender completely. How would this be possible?

Radical feminists suggest changes, such as finding technology that will allow babies to be grown outside of a woman's body, to promote more equality between men and women. This will allow women to avoid missing work for maternity leave, which radical feminists argue is one reason women aren't promoted as quickly as men. In fact, radical feminists would argue that the entire traditional family system is sexist. Men are expected to work outside the home while women are expected to care for children and clean the house. Radical feminists note that this traditional dichotomy maintains men as economically in power over women, and therefore, the traditional family structure should be rejected.

Socialist Feminism
Radical feminism is the most extreme form. The second type of feminism, called socialist feminism, is slightly less extreme but still calls for major social change. Socialist feminism is a movement that calls for an end to capitalism through a socialist reformation of our economy. Basically, socialist feminism argues that capitalism strengthens and supports the sexist status quo because men are the ones who currently have power and money. Those men are more willing to share their power and money with other men, which means that women are continually given fewer opportunities and resources. This keeps women under the control of men.

In short, socialist feminism focuses on economics and politics. They might point out the fact that in the United States women are typically paid only $0.70 for the exact same job that a man would be paid a dollar for. Why are women paid less than men for the same work? Socialist feminists point out that this difference is based on a capitalist system.

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Cultural Feminism

As radical feminism died out as a movement, cultural feminism got rolling. In fact, many of the same people moved from the former to the latter. They carried the name "radical feminism" with them, and some cultural feminists use that name still. (Jaggar and Rothenberg [Feminist Frameworks] don't even list cultural feminism as a framework separate from radical feminism, but Echols spells out the distinctions in great detail.) The difference between the two is quite striking: whereas radical feminism was a movement to transform society, cultural feminism retreated to vanguardism, working instead to build a women's culture. Some of this effort has had some social benefit: rape crisis centers, for example; and of course many cultural feminists have been active in social issues (but as individuals, not as part of a movement). [JD]

As various 1960s movements for social change fell apart or got co-opted, folks got pessimistic about the very possibility of social change. Many of then turned their attention to building alternatives, so that if they couldn't change the dominant society, they could avoid it as much as possible. That, in a nutshell, is what the shift from radical feminism to cultural feminism was about. These alternative-building efforts were accompanied with reasons explaining (perhaps justifying) the abandonment of working for social change. Notions that women are "inherently kinder and gentler" are one of the foundations of cultural feminism, and remain a major part of it. A similar concept held by some cultural feminists is that while various sex differences might not be biologically determined, they are still so thoroughly ingrained as to be intractable.

Eco-Feminism

This branch of feminism is much more spiritual than political or theoretical in nature. It may or may not be wrapped up with Goddess worship and vegetarianism. Its basic tenet is that a patriarchal society will exploit its resources without regard to long term consequences as a direct result of the attitudes fostered in a patriarchal/hierarchical society. Parallels are often drawn between society's treatment of the environment, animals, or resources and its treatment of women. In resisting patriarchal culture, eco-feminists feel that they are also resisting plundering and destroying the Earth. And vice-versa. [CTM]

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BlackBDO said:

Feminism was born because women want all the privileges of being a man (career, respect in society, etc...) but they don't want to give up on the privileges they naturally have as a woman (depending on how beautifull she is she will have many many advantages). Soo feminsts do not aim equality, they want to get more privileges and don't want to give up on any.


An there are those feminists who are fat and ugly and want not to be judjed on beauty. That's just my 2c thi

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