What do radical feminists do?

Question

I know feminists fight for equality but what do these radical feminists fight for?

Answer 1

"Radical" simply means extreme.

There are anarcho-feminists, who think that only in an anarchist environment can true equality exist, and socialist feminists, who believe that only under socialism can gender equality exist.

Then you have your obnoxious man-haters, who are also sometimes called radical feminists, that fight for women superiority. I've never actually met one, but I'm told they exist.

Answer 2

You can find a detailed answer on wikipedia- the central idea is that radical feminism addresses "root" causes of the mistreatment of women, challenging social structures which oppress women. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_fem...

I'm just throwing this out there, but while a (non-radical) feminist may work to give women rights in domestic arrangements, a radical feminist might see some domestic arrangements as inherently oppressive.

I'm going even further out on the limb here, but it might be comparable to the reform vs. abolition dichotomy you see in many, maybe most, social justice issues - slavery, environmentalism, animal rights, nationalist movements, civil rights, etc.

Earthling, don't get too hungup on the "radical" label. If you believe that women should be allowed to run for political office and be independent and that slavery shouldn't be legal, you are quite radical by past standards. The mainstream position of tomorrow is often the radical position of today.

Answer 3

***** and moan about everything and anything they don't understand.

And that's nearly everything!!

Answer 4

they waste time and money fighting for imposible outcomes...Like true s*x equality.

Answer 5

Feminists as they call themselves (or more accurately Misandrists) do not 'fight for equality'.

Women have had equality for decades now, because men gave it to them.

'Feminists' fight for the opression and repression of men. Nothing more, nothing less.

The difference between a regular 'feminist' and a radical 'feminist' is that the radical variety make even more pointless noise than the others.

Answer 6

They fight for better rights for women but to the detriment of men.  Men are seen as second-class and worth less compared to women.  Often there is the element of hatred for the opposite s*x.

Radical Feminists or radical men's rights activists, they are all the same, just complete crackpots.

Answer 7

Besides hate and blame men for whatever they can?  That's pretty much it.

Answer 8

dominance and absurd standards, like any radical whatevers.

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I see what you’re saying, but when I say radical, I don’t mean the general accepted definition, I literally mean crazy and unrealistic. Are you saying that radical ideas like female dominance will most certainly become the norm, or should be?

Radical islamic fundamentalists believe americans are evil and should all be bombed.

Radical christians believe that atheists shouldn't be president.

There are a lot of crackpot and completely insane ideas out there. Are most of them going to become cultural norms?

Radical doesn't always mean ahead of it's time.

Answer 9

It depends on how you define feminism and radical and what country you're talking about.



-I consider the US radical feminism movement over-it was primarily in the 1960's and 1970's when patriarchy was out and the ERA was in. I grew up in the 1960's and 1970's and I couldn't see what was so radical about wanting to skip home ec or shop (depending on your gender) ; go out or not go out for sports (again-depending on your gender); go to college (if you could find the money to do it); and not rush out and marry the first person of the opposite s*x and immediately pop out kids (it was the first time the pill was widely available to unnmarried adults). By the 1980's these groups were history. I was a women's studies minor in the late 70's and it wasn't radical-it was about women's history in politics (or lack of it); women's economic issues; and exploring women's depiction in the media.

The US ERA amendment was controversial in the 1970's because Phyllis Schafly (the anti-ERA queen) painted a picture of unisex bathrooms (which we have in many public locations now) and women in the military (women now make up 15% of the military and participate in 80-90% of the roles men do in the military-and are exposed to combat in both Iraq and Afghanistan because of the nature of the wars).

The next and last radical US feminist group that emerged was in the 1980's and it was the anti-pornography crowd-and many feminists fervently disagreed with their ideology or their tactics or both. I went to a few anti-p**n events and I could see they were trying to help women who had been abused by the p**n industry-but not all women were abused by it and they were not taking that into account. Working with the right-wing to try to get rid of p**n was not the right move-I thought they were nuts and so did many many feminists. So many in fact there were quite a few anti-censorship feminist groups and s*x-positive feminist groups-not promoting s*x but promoting the fact that most feminists wanted people to have choices about their sexuality-not more restrictions and laws regulating what you could do in your bedroom.  

After the 1980's US anti-p**n movement fell apart-the rest of the US anti-censorship groups broke up as they weren't needed. That's the last US radical feminist groups I know of. A couple of the old anti-p**n groups evolved into anti-s*x trafficking/anti-s*x slavery groups. The 1990's and 2000's have been pretty quiet in the US. We've had the riot grrrls and a few blips here and there-but nothing like the 1960's/1970's..

If you ask people about US radical feminists-they quote people from 40 years ago-half of whom are dead..I'd say that sums up where the US radical feminism "movement" is today-dead.