Do you find an interesting parallel between the usage of the words, "Traditional" and "Feminist"?

Question

Do you find an interesting parallel between the usage of the words, "Traditional" and "Feminist"?

Answer 1

Feminism devalues traditional functions like wife and mother.

Traditionalists value those things above all else.

Feminists who disagree are either ignorant or lying.

Answer 2

Traditional is something conservatives use to dress up their bigotry.

Feminism, etc any activist group is tied to liberalism.  

Answer 3

What the fact that neither has very set definitions, meaning dramatically different things to different people.  That both can be seen as good and evil, as right and wrong.

And that we all run around arguing using these terms, yet spending half the time fighting over what the terms mean before we can get down to it?

Answer 4

Yes, like Bones said, there is no set definitions.

Answer 5

Yes, very interesting.

Answer 6

Feminism doesn't "devalue" being a wife or mother. It's just the "traditionalist" bigots who want that to be ALL that a woman can achieve, regardless of what the woman may want.

Feminism seeks to give women choices outside those two roles. "Traditionalists" seem to think that you can't be a wife mother, and (fill in the blank). That if women are going to be a wife and mother, that is ALL they should be. But no one expects that a man should be a husband and father, and NOTHING ELSE. He has unlimited choices. Why is that?

Answer 7

Not so much parallel, rather I find it alarming that the word "traditional" has negative connotations (the result of Feminists) whilst the word "Feminist" is socially accepted. One might walk into a room and declare herself, proudly to be a Feminist, but frankly, I don't see why this is any more acceptable than walking into a room and introducting oneself as a misanthrope or a misogynists. Neither is likely to be met with much delight. It's similar to introducing oneself as a White Supremacist in mixed company, it's not something to be particularly proud of, yet society doesn't frown upon Feminism/Misandry in the way that it does upon most hateful ideologies. This is the part I really don't get.