Are older feminists failing to pass on the rich history of feminism to younger women?

Question

Younger women today are shallow, into makeup and clothes and chasing men. Are older feminists falling down on the job? Shouldn't they be inspiring young women with riveting stories of feminist battles against the patriarchy?

Answer 1

I disagree that younger women are shallow. That is very insulting and untrue.

The only common denominator younger women have is youth.

They'll grow out of it in time to have plenty of impact on our world.

Cheers :-)

Answer 2

Nothing wrong with makeup and clothes and chasing men.

As for shallow - judge not, lest ye be judged!

Answer 3

Feminism isn't about neutering ourselves sexually.  It's about empowering ourselves politically.  Have you noticed how well that's going?  I suspect that you may be projecting onto self-determining (feminist) women how sexually neutered you might be feeling about yourself in these times.  Men who feel like "real" men sexually only if women are not empowered politically must feel QUITE neutered these days.  That is good.  We don't need them breeding anyway.  There's always Viagra and blow-up dolls.  I also just read a great article about the possibility of robots being programmed in the near future to be so sophisticated that men can actually fall in love with them.  You'll be able to have a s*x partner as politically "pale and halpless and fragile" as you like in order to feel sexually like a REAL man.  In the meantime, I'm keeping my red stilettos to wear for men who can appreciate a living REAL flesh and blood self-determining self-sufficient woman.

Answer 4

If we aren't into make-up, clothes, and chasing men you accuse us of being lesbians and wearing flannel!   If we don't move on from the issues we already addressed, we get harangued for living in the past.   When we try to address new issues we are accused of not being satisfied with the gains.  We can't win.   How about helping us make life better for all of us?

Answer 5

The public education system is shortchanging all who go through it.  The USA always comes out near the bottom during international 'testing competitions'.  I don't even think history is taught anymore in American classrooms, the kids all seem so ignorant.

Answer 6

I do think that my generation as a whole has become incredibly apathetic, and generations before us aren't doing enough to change that.

Answer 7

All of this talk about feminism being popular is greatly exaggerrated. When I go to the mall in the morning or the early afternoon on a weekday, the place is packed with women who live off of their husbands' incomes. Many of these women are wheeling babies around in strollers.  If feminism were really so popular, then these hordes and hordes of women would be out working at a job somewhere in the morning or the afternoon instead of wheeling babies around the mall and congesting the mall parking lots. The majority of women are not feminists. They want to marry men, live off of their husband's incomes, live in a house, and raise children. This is called the biological imperative of gender. Most women go along with it. The rest become feminists who live alone in their old age.

Answer 8

"Rich history of feminism"? Are you crazy or what?

Answer 9

I'm lost. Did you just imply that not chasing after men is a "good" thing? Not sure if you know much about continuing the human race, now do you?

Answer 10

They don't want to end up bitter, alone, divorced, hating men and having men hate them right back.  So they ignore feminism.

Answer 11

All of those things that you accuse young women of today are no different than in the past!  The expression of it may have evolved, but thats it!

The patriarchy is a myth, and always has been!

Besides, as said already, you can't force a woman to be a feminist and, sorry to burst you bubble, but causes are rarely more than one generation: it is rare to see any movement picked up by the children and carried on in the same way, and it is selfish to expect them to.  That is vicarious living.

Answer 12

You can't force people to want to be feminist. You can offer, but if they don't want it, they won't take it.

Answer 13

Humanity collectively has become shallow; I mean look at all the products the media try to push down peoples throats. It’s mass consumerism, mass globalisation and mass privatisation and small business has it the worst. It just feels like things and objects became more important than humanity somewhere along the line; it feels almost like over consumption and greed replaced basic human kindness.