How will history remember the feminist movement?

Question

Lets restrict this to the late 60s onwards. Will it be remembered for spreading happiness and social progress e.g. http://www.now.org/

...or will it be remembered for spreading prejudice http://www.onlinelawyersource.com/news/false-allegation-domestic.html

Answer 1

You will remember it as a time when you gave up all the niceties of being feminine and made yourselves as miserable as us men are. Are you better off? You decide.

Answer 2

I think both.  Further I believe corporations, the media and various governments are using feminism as a way to destabilize populations.

Keep the people disunited  & fighting each other.  

Under the cloak of ignorance, people are too busy & powerless to stop globalization.  In the old days, people had power & unity.  Under feminization, we will have further chaos & possible military rule.

The final outcome might be massive pandemic flus, WW3, a continueing economic depression for generations...and feminists fighting to hold their superiority advantages.

Bottomline, they are here for the longterm.  Many humans (tens of millions) will die because of them.  The Final Solution will happen as the feminists fight for control...and Western Civilization fights off the Muslims.

Answer 3

I think it shall be viewed in a politically correct light as are all things in this deranged society. You cannot teach kids in high school that 'all s*x is a violation of woman by man'...I think they will take a more censorious approach to things and sweep it under a big PC rug

EDIT: And I agree with Char!

Answer 4

One would like to think that history will look back upon the Feminist Movement with a kind regard for it's well intentioned endeavors to promote the cause of justice and equality. It had so much to offer, but was derailed by it's own supporters. But then too, history is a fickle science, propagated by those who have an individual bias and a personal political agenda. Either way it (and it's accomplishments) is now a part of history, in much the same way that apartheid, slavery and child labor once were: things of the past.

Answer 5

It did help in the 60's and 70's but you know it has just become like any other fundamentalist elitist extreme; it’s really sad because it did start with good intentions, but then came along all the radicals.

It could have been great; it was, but I listen to all the unfair unsubstantiated women who call themselves feminists today like Eve Ensler and all those other crazies!

It just reminds me of overbearing Christians and Catholics who hold so strongly onto their beliefs even thought there is overwhelming evidence to support the opposite of what they believe.

Just like any social movement over time the perception of it will be warped and Chinese whispers will disrupt it. I am all for everyone having equality, I am all for humanity working together. But people have to realise that if something is not working, it is just hindering it’s time to stop the baroque thinking and find better solutions for us all; together.

Answer 6

<grave stone>

Here lies the feminist movenemt true and tried;

oh how hard it did try;

only to find; with disappointment abound that many did not buy.

Quite often were the case; those who did buy;

ended up disapponted; when they discovered it had lied.

So, we said "ashes to ashes; dust to dust;

delete this stuff.

So, into the ground it was thrust;

as all things that die must.

There it shall remain;

a bitter sweet memory for those of us who knew it.

Answer 7

I think it'll be remembered as a well-intentioned movement which gradually became more radical and eventually caused it's own end.

And one day people will laugh at the idea that gender is a social construct!

Answer 8

The women's movement will be remembered, for the most part, for breaking barriers for women and men. Extremism will be remembered as extremism and nothing else.

Answer 9

Like we remember other failed ideas and ideologies.

It seemed like a good idea at the time but ...

Answer 10

Misguided Benevolence.

Answer 11

As the movement of pedphelia and abuse it has become.

Answer 12

Feminism started with good intentions, promised so much and looked like a system to stay, but in the end, it encouraged the very things its ideology so ferevently opposes - sexism and discrimination, only this time the men were at the short end of the stick.

I don't think I'm being too extreme when I say feminism doesn't differ too much from apartheid and slavery. After all, those two pretended to have good intentions and looked like they were there to stay, but they were upstaged. Discriminated people tend not to stay quiet for too long.

Same with feminism. I doubt the time when the Western Man rises up in arms is too far away.

I suppose history will remember as a movement which started with so much promise and good intentions, but in the end just became another blot in history. It will go down as a perfect example of the imperfection of humankind.

Answer 13

In the same way it remembers other failed, flawed, extremist ideologies.

Answer 14

As a self serving agenda for the forgotten woman who werern't  accepted by society because they chose not to be.

It all started one fall afternoon in San Francisco when women decided to burn their bras in public but they forgot to take them off first......Their psyche burned, they then carried the torch like an olympic champion but kept burning themselves along the way.

It was a perpetual 35 year telethon that nobody tuned in to watch......

Betty's Kids......(Betty Friedan)

Heyyyyy Laaaadddddyyyyyyyy!

Where?  (Turning head around)

Nowhere