Will The real Feminists Please Stand Up?

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Cate	I agree with Alice here. Also, i would like to put in that Feminism is not only about fighting for "equality", it's mostly about bringing an end to injustice and violence against women and giving them equal opportunity for justice, education and the freedom to pursue an active social and professional life without having to fear for her life or the possibility of social rejection. Is that asking for too much? Being a woman herself, does the author want top say that just because nature designed woman's body for nurture and progeny, she should be forced to do so? Isn't that equivalent to sexual and reproductive slavery?	12/2/2011
Glory Sunday	Wow! I love that. You made a lot of sense... Am a feminist and this will surely help me alot... We are not trying to surpass the men... Since we are completely different creatures, no one should claim superior to the other. We should compliment each other. No sex should misuse the differences. Men should not use their masculine power and sex...to beat up and rape the women. Women must not be treated as second class humans. Women are greatly contributing posively to the family and society with the little right they have been given. Imagine what the world looked like before now and what it will look like when women get equal political, social...right. Men cannot do without women. God created the woman to help the man...not just in the family but all other aspect and area of life. Check the differences between countries that are matching towards this and those that are not.	4/3/2011
alice	ill tell you why some modern feminist don't want baby's. because there are plenty of abandoned ones out there already, also some independent women choose not to have children becuase they have better things to do with life EG PHD's, travel . there is a huge gap between women who have kids and women who dont , the women who don't are treated as somewhat alien and faulty(ever try having a conversation about kids and saying oh i dont really like babys , your most likely reaction will be a vicious glare from your female coworkers). we are aloud to choose wether to procreate or not . personally with the planet the way it is we could do with a ton less babys.	12/22/2010
amy	Excellent article, very through provoking.	7/15/2007
Shirley Singh	Nice article. Important idea, though i found it slightly long-winded. As far as equality is concerned, i think it is just a term for the right to work without being made to feel guilty about it and getting husbands to cook, which you say is anyway a legitimate demand. And as far as enjoying our natural nurturing capabilities goes, i think it would be common sense to be what we are and enjoy being what we are. But the problem is one of economics. The dynamics of a marriage are very subtly linked to the financial equation. I have seen women be so completly answerable to husbands and unable to walk out of abusive marriages because they have no earning power, thanks to spending key years of their life caring for their children, and not trusting their upbringing to maids or creches. It would be great if women could simply choose to be full-time nurturer and be the rock solid support of the home as our mothers were, but only if there is some kind of mandate where half the husband's salary would go into the wife's account- not just to run the house and spend as she wishes, but to give to her parents or whatever else she wants to do with it. What say?	3/17/2004

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