What exactly is an Anti Feminist?

Question

So i know what a feminist is, or at least have an idea...its PEOPLE (not JUST women) who want women to have equal rights and be considered equal to men. sooo when i think of ANTI feminist...i think of USUALLY a guy who thinks women are lesser of a man and usually is a male chauvinist (sp?) Thats just what I THINK when i hear anti feminist....but could someone tell me what one really is or does?

thanks!

Answer 1

an anti feminist is basically someone(can be man or woman) that is against the idea of women being equal to men.

Answer 2

> its PEOPLE (not JUST women) who want women to have equal rights and be considered equal to men. <  

''Want to have equal rights' !  And when will this social strange thing come about?

We all HAVE (already) equal rights .....and anyone who believes to the contrary, is seeking to deny these rights to some of usl, female and / or male.

If they can be removed from one segment of society, then someone will likely attempt to deny them to others at some point.

Sash (a male).

Answer 3

Antifeminism is opposition to feminism in some or all of its forms. This can be direct pronouce as Against Feminism.

What is Feminism?

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 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 4

Here's the Wiki on it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-femini...

I can relate.  As a 30-something woman who enoys a career and the right to vote, I don't think we need "radical" feminism.  Some women are ust taking (or did in the 70s) things too far and actually seem to want women to have MORE rights than men.  

And it's not a cool position to have, but I don't think women and men ARE equal all the time.  Women simply cannot bench press what men can, and men cannot bear children.  There are basic, natural differences between the sexes that we should celebrate!