How powerful is feminism, in your opinion?

Question

On a scale of one to ten...?

If you see it as very powerful, how do you explain continuing discrimination against women across the world?

And if you see it as not very powerful how do you explain the severity of anti-feminist reactions against it? :-)

Answer 1

Feminism is pretty powerful, but it is no longer positive.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/73318...

Men and children face oppression too you know, you are in the UK, if you really want to take a stand against oppression, write a letter to the the Queen and ask her to give it all back and help these countries get back on their feet.

As for "the severity of anti feminist reactions", that hasn't really hit the mainstream as yet and is still in its infancy.

Answer 2

It is very, very powerful. I'd rate it 9, as a powerful movement of hate and bigotry.

http://www.freewebs.com/feminism-evaluat...

http://www.rulymob.com/

http://www.ukmm.org.uk/issues/suppressio...

Discrimination against women everywhere else can be explained easily by the fact that feminism doesn't seek the enhancement of women's rights but the destruction of men's rights and civil liberties and freedoms. (Read the links)

That explains anti-feminist reactions. Who's going to be pleased if I promise better conditions for AIDS-affected people but I instead start infecting the rest of the country with AIDS after giving the affected better conditions? That's nothing short of what feminists are doing. The blood-thristy misandrist feminist bigots weren't satisfied with equality. They wanted to jail and oppress men of today for what their ancestors did, which is nothing short of the kind of logic one can expect from feminists.

Since feminism has become a sad, irrational movement of misandry and bigotry from a noble liberating force, it's going to find it harder than ever to gain acceptance in places where it has not started. It's already near-impossible in non-democracies.

Discrimination against men deserves as much attention as discrimination against women, and it is time feminists like you realized that if you are for equality like you claim you are.

Answer 3

7/10 in the democratic West.

In The West, where the voting population has much influence, feminism holds some power. Women are one of the largest voting groups. A governments first priority before anything else is self preservation. Thus, a politician in a democratic system will follow the capricious wishes of the majority to secure his power. Feminism has lobby groups who put pressure politicians who just want to make it past the next election. Feminism has social and political influence.

1/10 in autocratic or totalitarian states.

The governments survival is guaranteed oppression and military. It can pursue it's interests despite the will of it's people. Feminism or any other opposing ideologies can be easily crushed by force.

Answer 4

women asked men to vote, it was up to men...so who really has the power here?

Answer 5

Not powerful enough.   We have a lot of conservatives and reactionaries that do not want a level social order.  They prefer a hierarchy, a male dominated one at that.    They need to be "better" than someone else.  They try to use religion to bolster their claims.  Since a lot of religions are based upon man made rules they bolster this.

Answer 6

6:5 as in those who are opposed verses those who are for. 6 standing for those who are for, and 5 standing for those who are opposed.  Then you have this ratio 5:7; 5 standing for those who are for and 7 standing for those who once believed, but along the way have wisened up.  Now, we have this ratio 5:8; 5 standing for those who are for and 8 standing for those who have once believed, switched; and, now have switched back again. Last of all you have your 5:9; the 5 standing for those who are for and the 9 standing for those who only seek what it has to offer, no more and no less.  Quite impossible to fit something like this into a scale of 1-10, because it flucuates.

Answer 7

The n***s in Germany were very powerful in their day.

But nothing is forever.

Feminism will go into obscurity just like the n***s did.

Answer 8

10..

But its powers are not utilized in the best way possible so that's why discrimination and abuse still exists..

Anti-feminists only flourish because they are the proof that feminism has gone a long way..

Answer 9

It really is what you make of it, so giving it a rating like that is kinda pointless. Each person interprets the base ideas in a different way and applies them differently. It can be very powerful on a personal level, and it is a philosophy that has led to some huge changes socially. as far as the continuing treatment of women the world over, keep this in mind. Suffragettes were fighting for the right to vote in the US and the UK for almost 50 years before they got it. these things take time.

Answer 10

It is another form of extremism. It gets action out of the "let's not offend people" crowd.

When white males are engaged in such activities, they are sexist or racist, or hate mongers. Why the double standard?

Across the world, there are far worse thing going on. Are you in a muslim country?

Answer 11

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Answer 12

Anymore...about a 3.  When feminism was needed they were much more powerful about an 8 or 9 I would say.  But it is hard to fight for things when you have already won them or the country you are fighting for doesn't want you to do so.

Answer 13

I don't think it's very powerful anymore. It certainly was in the 60's, though, and that power was used for good. Now it seems that the style of feminism practiced then is out, and what people perceive as current feminism is just an inconvenience.

Answer 14

Feminism involves various movements theories and philosophies which are concerned with the issue of gender difference, that advocate equality for women, and that campaign for women's rights and interests.According to some, the history of feminism can be divided into three waves.The first wave was in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the second was in the 1960s and 1970s and the third extends from the 1990s to the present. Feminist theory emerged from these feminist movements. It manifests through a variety of disciplines such as feminist geography, feminist history and feminist literary criticism.

Feminism has altered predominant perspectives in a wide range of areas within Western society, ranging from culture to law. Feminist activists have campaigned for women's legal rights (rights of contract, property rights, voting rights); for rights to female bodily integrity and autonomy, for abortion rights, and for reproductive rights (including access to contraception and quality prenatal care); for protection from domestic violence, sexual harassment and rape; for workplace rights, including maternity leave and equal pay; and against other forms of discrimination.

During much of its history, most feminist movements and theories had leaders who were predominantly middle-class white women, from Western Europe and North America. However, at least since Sojourner Truth's 1851 speech to American feminists, women of other races have proposed alternative feminisms. This trend accelerated in the 1960s with the Civil Rights movement in the United States and the collapse of European colonialism in Africa, the Caribbean, parts of Latin America and Southeast Asia. Since that time, women in former European colonies and the Third World have proposed "Post-colonial" and "Third World" feminisms.Some Postcolonial feminists, such as Chandra Talpade Mohanty, are critical of Western feminism for being ethnocentric. Black feminists, such as Angela Davis and Alice Walker, share this view.

Since the 1980s Standpoint feminists argued that feminism should examine how women's experience of inequality relates to that of racism, homophobia, classism and colonization. In the late 1980s and 1990s postmodern feminists argued that gender roles are socially constructed,and that it is impossible to generalize women's experiences across cultures and histories

Answer 15

6.5 its negative. i never realized what a crock feminism is until i got pregnant. i was a college student, living alone, working. and i HATED it. i wished i could have sat back with my feet up and glowed and all of that c**p. but i was working, making $7.48 an hour, behind on all of my bills. the whole time i kept saying, if i was pregnant 60 years ago, the guy and i would have gotten married because of the pregnancy (or been married before) and i could focus on home and the baby rather than home, baby, life, career, money, etc. the only reason i didn't give feminism a 10 is because sometimes when guys disappear, women are forced to work to support families and its nice to not have to only be a nurse or a teacher. women can now walk into the board room with the best of them and demand and receive respect. the father and i now live together and i focus on my son, keeping the house clean and i'm about to finish school so that i can take care of my son properly as a single mother. i don't care what any woman says, i LIKE being taken care of. but i also like having career choices.

Answer 16

8

Answer 17

I'd give it about a 7.  It's not something you hear about every day, but it's effects are felt throughout society, at least here in the West.  Feminists have convinced people that women are still oppressed and nearly enslaved in the West (okay slight exaggeration, but not much).

Feminism hasn't spread all over the world.

Answer 18

10, nobody wants to argue with women so us men give in =D, believe me, women have power beyond any man in this world. That can be good and bad. remember, women are always right =S, even when they're wrong.

Answer 19

Powerful in a negative way, 8-9.