Why do some women feel threatened by feminism?

Question

Why do some women feel threatened by feminism?

Answer 1

threatened? not by a long shot..

actually feminism isnt even something i think about unless im on here.

the other time my mind is occupied with pretty trivial c**p.

of course...pretty much everything to me is trivial.

Answer 2

ugh here we go again............didnt we just answer this already? Just worded differently.

I'll just refer you back to my answer because I don't feel like answering it again,.     http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

*mud*

I don't label myself as a feminist for very good reason and none of them has anything to do with what people will think of me.

I believe in equal laws, equal rights equal treatment.

Feminsim does not. So how could I possible call myself one when it is not true.

I don't care what anyone else thinks about me. If I did I would be going along with this special interest group. But I am not.

I care about what I believe and that is all that matters to me.

I am so tired of people trying to say I am a closet feminst when I AM NOT.

Equal rights does not equal vawa. Equal rights do not exclude a fathers right to his child.

Those are associated with feminsim.

That is why I do not and never will call myself a feminst.

Answer 3

I don't. I just don't like the hating from either side. It's pointless.

Answer 4

A lot of women are fearful because of the negative connotation feminism has come to have. They say stuff like, "OH, I'm an EQUALIST not a feminist!" They want the rights feminism gives them, but they don't want to stick with the movement because they're scared of what others will think.

Then there are some women that would rather just be housewives. Feminism allows and supports women who choose to be housewives, but not only do a lot of people not realize this, there are also women who wish ALL women were housewives because being a housewife no longer provides the security it once did now that it's not what a woman is "expected" to do. It's harder to find a man that wants to settle down and get married.

Answer 5

I don't think they feel threatened.  I just think that some feminists are so...overpowering and, perhaps, passionate about their cause that they, themselves, are a bit frightening.

Answer 6

Because what was once considered to be an equal rights movement has turned into a turn women into men movement. For instance women want to marry women, become police officers, have the right to abort unborn children, be boxers and ridiculous things that take away from feminity of a woman altogether. I can't speak for every woman, but I think this movement is destroying the true nature of what women are, which is feminine, not masculine. Women wanted the right to leave abusive husbands, work and earn money, vote, get an education, have their own possessions and make their own decisions, but this is not what the feminist movement is about these days. When women claim it is unfair because they are only allowed to play on a womans professional basketball team and insist it is discrimination if they can't play on a mans professional team they have totally went over the line, I feel they are discriminating against men and using a good cause to dominate, not fight for equality. I have noticed women who choose to be stay at home moms, are big targets for those who feel all women need to work, go to school be sexually permiscuous, and totally disregard their kids or abort them. This is completely absurd and disgusting in my opinion. How can anyone feel it is more respectable to abort a child than it is to bring life into this world, and to teach the new generation of children to sleep with multiple partners, rather than abstenence? It is a good thing all of us don't agree, because the human race would eventually die off, if not by abortions then by sexual diseases! This movement has obviously effected men also, many want to be lazy and have their women support them, fight for the right to become women, literally, conduct and carry themselves like women instead of men and so on. Keep it up, and nobody is going to have a clear definition of what a man and woman is. I'm sorry, but I like it when a man opens a door for me or carrys my books, I don't find it offensive as some femi n***s do. All of this nonsense is completely destroying the concept of what a healthy home life is, and their biggest targets are the children, they demand their views be burnt into the brains of children they would much rather have aborted, but I'm sure they don't say it like it is, they sugar coat their corruptness with lies about descrimination. Soon they will be fighting for the right to shower with men publically, g**s are already fighting for the right to allow g*y men to use restrooms with girls. I don't know about you, but I don't want some full grown man using the same restroom as my 5 year old granddaughter because he claims he is g*y. This is opening up all kinds of doors for the sexually perverse to corrupt the innocent. They are already attempting to pass laws that will dismiss the mentally ill for ill conduct based upon the fact they can't help it, just like these feminists can't help it if they are g*y, or get pregnant. They are fighting for complete and total anarchy where nobody except those who have morals will be held accountable for their perverse and morally corrupt actions. I feel very threatened, but not for myself, for future generations, for my children and grandchildren, and I think anyone who stopped for one minute to look into the future and see where we are heading would be absolutely terrified. ;-)

Answer 7

I don't know that many women (excepting the bible-thumping Operation Rescue crowd) DO feel threatened by feminism.  Most of the anti-feminist "women" here are male trolls, who frequently post brilliant things like "I just love taking care of my man, and having him tell me what I should be doing."

Answer 8

well there afraid to take care of them selves. and somtimes they like other people doing work for them. feminist are very independent and they like feeling strong. while others arnt the same and are more laid back.=]

Answer 9

Feel threatened?  That's a life in a half.  I see no point in believing I'm a human-being just because of some title I can write on sheet of paper one moment and erase in the next; to me that's completely pointless.

Answer 10

They do? Wow. That's a new one.

Answer 11

Because it makes them responsible for themselves.

A surprising number of people, including myself (though I'm a man), are afraid of being responsible for themselves.

Answer 12

Untrue.They are intelligent.

Answer 13

Possibly because it's yet another group trying to tell them what they should do/be/believe and disrespecting their right to self-determination by imposing behavioral expectations on them?

Just a thought.

Answer 14

They may think that feminism mocks and judges  their values as inferior.

Answer 15

I agree with DoorsofP, the first response, wholeheartedly 100%!!!!!

Answer 16

Well if they're a normal woman and don't think all men are out to get them....

they may feel threatened that feminists might be upset by that.  

Or the normal women may feel threatened that they want to be accountable for themselves, but feminists instead insist that the government steps in to treat them like children, granting them all sorts of special privileges because they think women can't hack it on their own.

Or maybe they know what happened in Sweden once feminists gained a political party of their own:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/wo...