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What kind of feminist are you?
I'm radical - I want men out of my feminist agenda, I only sleep with womyn and it's NOT funny, you chauvinist pig. 6%  6%  [ 3 ]
I'm liberal - I think it's a women's responsibility to run equally with men. A woman should have it all because now she can. 31%  31%  [ 15 ]
I'm Marxist - I think of gender in terms of socialist metaphor about work and alienation. I've often wondered if I'd stop smothering my children if I gave birth to them one extremity at a time 2%  2%  [ 1 ]
I'm postmodern - Many of my feminist friends are men, Judith Butler bends my mind (and it feels so good) and gender expression is as important as a dust bunny... but if I've acknowledged it, do I acknowledge its ec-static self? 21%  21%  [ 10 ]
I'm not a feminist - It's all so confusing, I don't know where to begin! 10%  10%  [ 5 ]
I hate feminists - they're just ball-busting, man-hating, baby-eating, fire-starting, rabble-rousing loudmouths. Like Rosie O'Donnell. I hate feminists. 13%  13%  [ 6 ]
I don't know if we need feminism... I thought we were beyond all of this. 17%  17%  [ 8 ]
Total votes : 48

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12 Aug 2007, 5:19 pm

Yupa wrote:
The idea of feminism on its own seems a bit uneven, without the company of another ideal of equal footing with which it is essentially intertwined


Cambridge learner's dictionary, Cambridge university press 2001;

Feminism: the belief that women should have the same economic, social, and political rights as men. Feminist: someone who supports feminism.


Radical feminism, perhaps, needs a balancing act. . . but not this.


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12 Aug 2007, 7:13 pm

yep.

The fact the word has been distorted and turned into an insult just shows we still have a ways to go.



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13 Aug 2007, 10:55 am

things change with every generation and im not too sure about the next generation. to me being a feminist is to feel equal to men, be proud that you are female, not care what other people think of you and to define your own beauty as opposed to what society thinks is beauty.



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18 Aug 2007, 8:36 pm

Jainaday wrote:
Yupa wrote:
The idea of feminism on its own seems a bit uneven, without the company of another ideal of equal footing with which it is essentially intertwined


Cambridge learner's dictionary, Cambridge university press 2001;

Feminism: the belief that women should have the same economic, social, and political rights as men. Feminist: someone who supports feminism.


Radical feminism, perhaps, needs a balancing act. . . but not this.


Hmm, yeah, I guess I was just making that statement based on what my initial idea of feminism was, and I'm personally in favor of feminist groups that adress the ways that both males and females have been hurt and shorted in various aspects of society.