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annwfynThis is a random ponder.
What does feminism mean to you?
Is it possible to be a feminist and still expect men to open doors for you/pay for dates etc?
Is it possible to be a feminist and wear short skirts, lots of make up etc?
Is it possible to be a feminist and generally play 'the girl card'?
I'm also pondering people (such as myself) to be honest, who'd claim to 'not be a feminist' while still expecting equal job opportunities, equal pay, etc. Are we actually stealth feminists? Or just very spoilt people who are happy to take the good stuff that generations of feminism have brought up without being prepared to actually continue on the work or even acknowledge all that we owe to it?
Does feminism have a place in this day and age? After all, this is the 21st century. Maybe more specifically, does feminism really have a place in the comfortable middle class England/Scotland/Australia/America that I think all the readers of my journal live in. If you're a woman in Britain, do you really have that much to fight for? Or should we accept that the fight has been won and that the wrongs in our society aren't really often directed at anyone solely because of their gender.
Opinions?
What does feminism mean to you?
Is it possible to be a feminist and still expect men to open doors for you/pay for dates etc?
Is it possible to be a feminist and wear short skirts, lots of make up etc?
Is it possible to be a feminist and generally play 'the girl card'?
I'm also pondering people (such as myself) to be honest, who'd claim to 'not be a feminist' while still expecting equal job opportunities, equal pay, etc. Are we actually stealth feminists? Or just very spoilt people who are happy to take the good stuff that generations of feminism have brought up without being prepared to actually continue on the work or even acknowledge all that we owe to it?
Does feminism have a place in this day and age? After all, this is the 21st century. Maybe more specifically, does feminism really have a place in the comfortable middle class England/Scotland/Australia/America that I think all the readers of my journal live in. If you're a woman in Britain, do you really have that much to fight for? Or should we accept that the fight has been won and that the wrongs in our society aren't really often directed at anyone solely because of their gender.
Opinions?
