Men, women: What are your views on feminism?

Question

I think that men and women should have equal rights, but I'm pretty "old-fashioned"--I think that men and women are completely unalike and each have their own purpose. Men should be men and women should be women.

Answer 1

I think most of girls  and women are actually radical feminists not feminists

Answer 2

I think feminism at its very basic definition is a good thing (equal rights and treatment for men and women).  However, I think that much of that aim has been reached.  I can't see any civil rights issues here in the US against women.  If anything, men are the ones who are more likely to be screwed than women (actually, I think we're all slowly losing civil rights, but that's another story altogether).  I also think that most feminists are hypocritical in one way or another.  Men who complain about things that disadvantage them are branded as whiners or complainers.  Women who do the same are empowered.  These are generalizations, but they're pretty common from my experience.

In short, I'm not completely against feminism, and it has accomplished some good things.  However, I think much of what feminists fight today is just, well, stupid to put it bluntly.  There is definitely room for improvement in gender relations, but feminists spend more time worrying about changing signs to gender-neutral wording than doing actual good work it seems.  Also, when you have young boys who grow up thinking they are evil just for being boys, feminism (I don't think this was a problem before feminism from all I've seen and studied) has gone too far.

Answer 3

Humanism is about equal rights; feminism is an excuse that women use to get away with throwing temper tantrums and whine about how hard life is as though they have it so much worse than men.

Answer 4

Yeah, it's ok if women want rights and jobs and don't want to be harrased.

But men are men and women are women.

Also, men is a group not an individual, men are all different.

I don't like the idea that promotes that a woman is the mother and the father shuts up....nonsense.

Answer 5

If it for equal rights....fine.....BUT....ALL... things must be equal

then...

You can not make laws to protect women and say they are the weaker s*x if all is equal

If a woman has "control" of her reproductive system...she should NOT be allowed to hold the man FINANCIALLY responsible for 18 years for her CHOICE....If the man wants an abortion and the lady does not..he should be able to pay a onetime fee and sign away rights and not be responsible...

I have a neighbor who's daughter is being raised that she has all the rights and stature a man has.....that is great...HOWEVER at a party last week her 16 yr old daughter told my 14 yr old son in front of me and her Mom that if he did not give up his seat at the table she was going to punch him...I told him in front of them...If she does that knock her on her butt.....The Mother got furious telling me how dare I let a man hit a woman...to which I replied...If your going to raise her to be equal and she steps up to a physical confrontation with a man...she has the right to get a smack in the nose like a man......

After all fair is fair

Answer 6

I agree, but too many people confuse 'women's rights' with 'feminism'. They are two quite completely different things.

Women's rights, like men's rights, are part of the equalist movement ( http://www.celticsurf.net/phpBB3/viewfor... ). But feminism has an agenda of its own and it is NOT about harmony and friendship between the sexes.

Answer 7

Feminism has a stereotype that is false.  It's not about hating men and thinking we are better than men and all men are perverted egotistical jerks.  It's about believing that men and women should be treated equal and have equal rights.  That is all it is.  People have made it out to be sooo much more, which gives feminism a bad name.  I remember one time when a guy was making fun of a girl because she wanted to keep her own last name after she got married.  I told him what I thought and he called me a Fem-n**i!  I took it as a compliment.

Answer 8

It's hate movement that promote misandry.

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/LGB.a...

http://nzmera.orconhosting.net.nz/femqot...

Answer 9

Equal Work, Equal Pay, Equal Opportunity, Equal Access.

Answer 10

I think it's ok for women's rights, but I think "man-hating" is kind of childish.

Answer 11

It only does half of what we need.  Feminism supports women's rights.  We need support for the other half of the world's too.

Answer 12

It used to be about equality but has morphed into a hatred against men and superiority movement.

No one cares about the children anymore.  Plus we need a Men's Rights movement to offset the

unfair laws that some women use to abuse men.

Basically it's got us all fighting against each other, got us paranoid, destroyed relationships and family forever and imprisoned innocent fathers.

Instead of building up a country, it destroys.  Instead of uniting, it divides.  Instead of peace, it creates the very violence and inequality it professes to want.

Answer 13

As a woman I think it's foolish to tell you right off the bat.  Who in the h**l cares if you are not getting the same pay as a man: you're being paid aren't you?  I used to work.  About the human-being thing; no one will think that you're a human-being, unless you think you are one first.  It doesn't matter how hard you are fighting; if all you're going to do is see yourself as less than a human-being, so is everyone else.  Women have been human-beings since the dawn of time; it is one of our natural rights; only some of you ditched that right and passed the blame.   While you're busy passing the blame you start fighting for the right to be called such and when you dig it out of where you have hidden it; you turn around and have the audacity to say that you fought for it and won the right to be a human-being.  Don't tell me I don't understand, I've been to h**l and back and not once have I ever deemed myself less than a human-being.  As a matter-of-fact; I've been living in Saudi Arabia for the past 15 years; over here I should feel the effects; only I don't; nothing is going to take that away from me.  We can't blame society either; for making us feel like we're less than human; it's not society's fault; it's our fault and always will be our fault.  Society is only a guide; a path on which keeps us on the straight and narrow; the way I look at it you obey the legal concepts and live your life the way you want to.  So, no one said that way back when us women had to be zipper mouths and take it; we told ourselves that and we convinced ourselves of that.

There was no need.  So, like I said before it's foolish.

Answer 14

What kind?

Looking femineme? Fantastic?

The feminist? They have a good purpose but a lot (that I see)get carried away.

Mine?http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

Answer 15

I think it's great for women to be able to voice their opinion, to have equal rights, to be seen as 'human.'

It's about female 'empowerment.'

Answer 16

I strongly believe that women are better than men