Feminists , why do women seek security in life & their relationships ?

Question

is this one of the things spoiling your points

Answer 1

Doesn't everybody?  But we do seek it in different ways, through a good job, successful relationships, etc.  Security doesn't always equate with money- It can also be emotional security we look for.

Answer 2

They seek it because they are EMPOWERED to do so by the freedoms the feminist movements have brought them?? :D

Answer 3

And men don't?

When grownup men and grownup women get together their objective most of the time is to raise a family.  The birds do it, the bees do it...

As Untamed Rose pointed out, there are many kinds of needs.  Security is a fundamental bottom rung need in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.  If you don't have a roof over your head and food in your belly you can't go anywhere.  Life stops.  Security is FUNDAMENTAL to LIFE.

"Maslow has set up a hierarchy of five levels of basic needs. Beyond these needs, higher levels of needs exist. These include needs for understanding, esthetic appreciation and purely spiritual needs. In the levels of the five basic needs, the person does not feel the second need until the demands of the first have been satisfied, nor the third until the second has been satisfied, and so on. Maslow's basic needs are as follows:

Physiological Needs

These are biological needs. They consist of needs for oxygen, food, water, and a relatively constant body temperature. They are the strongest needs because if a person were deprived of all needs, the physiological ones would come first in the person's search for satisfaction.

Safety Needs

When all physiological needs are satisfied and are no longer controlling thoughts and behaviors, the needs for security can become active. Adults have little awareness of their security needs except in times of emergency or periods of disorganization in the social structure (such as widespread rioting). Children often display the signs of insecurity and the need to be safe.

Needs of Love, Affection and Belongingness

When the needs for safety and for physiological well-being are satisfied, the next class of needs for love, affection and belongingness can emerge. Maslow states that people seek to overcome feelings of loneliness and alienation. This involves both giving and receiving love, affection and the sense of belonging.

Needs for Esteem

When the first three classes of needs are satisfied, the needs for esteem can become dominant. These involve needs for both self-esteem and for the esteem a person gets from others. Humans have a need for a stable, firmly based, high level of self-respect, and respect from others. When these needs are satisfied, the person feels self-confident and valuable as a person in the world. When these needs are frustrated, the person feels inferior, weak, helpless and worthless.

Needs for Self-Actualization

When all of the foregoing needs are satisfied, then and only then are the needs for self-actualization activated. Maslow describes self-actualization as a person's need to be and do that which the person was "born to do." "A musician must make music, an artist must paint, and a poet must write." These needs make themselves felt in signs of restlessness. The person feels on edge, tense, lacking something, in short, restless. If a person is hungry, unsafe, not loved or accepted, or lacking self-esteem, it is very easy to know what the person is restless about. It is not always clear what a person wants when there is a need for self-actualization.

The hierarchic theory is often represented as a pyramid, with the larger, lower levels representing the lower needs, and the upper point representing the need for self-actualization. Maslow believes that the only reason that people would not move well in direction of self-actualization is because of hindrances placed in their way by society."

Answer 4

Who wouldn't want security in either of those things? The only difference is how one attains it.

Answer 5

It is not just feminist who seek security in life and relationship,every sane human beings .....

Answer 6

No it isn't spoiling anything.  It is natural to seek security in life and relationships.  We all have an inner child that seeks safety.  My experience has shown me that I cannot rely on men for my security or provision of love.  I know that I am equal intellectually and feel that I should always be treated equally.  I have had to provide for both myself and my children since I divorced my husband on the grounds of his adultery.  I brought up my son to respect women and he has a very successful marriage and I taught my daugher that she must equip herself to earn a man's wage in order to protect herself and her children.  She is also successfully married.

Answer 7

Humans seek security in life and relationships....

Maslows pyramid of needs.  General Phy.

Answer 8

Well i guess even men look for security in relationship...Its just a mind set but ...not every women are similar u see..