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I essentialy am a feminist...though i don't like to call myself that because of the fact that the stereo-type of feminists are men hating bra burning, polarised and fixated on a singular outcome.
i do feel that many young women, seem to have either not been taught or have forgotten the importance of being a woman, and that we deserve to be treated with equal respect and all the other things that go with that, but not to be treated like a man. I am physically unable to lift as much as some of my fellow male students. If i have a child, i won't be able to go bakc to work the day after, i will have commitments that i would have to keep as that child grows. companies need to wake up to reality and i also being that the goverment needs to wake up and realise that there are more differences between men and women, but they deserve the same respect...
I always thought you were female.
That's 'cause it's a women's rights movement.
(as in, "Story of my life")
She is a female.
Female bodied.
What gender are you?
Yes, I think it would be inconsiderate towards women universally if I were straight.
That's a good question.
Well I never!
I'm for equal opportunities for everyone, so banging on about one sex's rights doesn't appeal to me. Maybe becasue being a woman has never knowingly hindered me.
:yes:
Not really... Because women have always been oppressed. If men were oppressed throughout time, if history were written by women, if society were run (entirely) by women then 'masculism' would be an appropriate term to define a movement for the liberation of men, surely.
Surely, if 'Black Power' were called 'People Power', or 'Human Power' then it would have sounded silly. It wasn't about power for white people, or the fact that white people's voices were not heard, it was about black people and advancing their rights.
Whatever feminism is called though, people will always attack the concept that women are equal, either with the biology arguements, or the "well actually, women are already more equal with men! We can't even slap their arses anymore."
You are very fortunate that you've never been held back for being a woman because the majority of women around the world cannot say that.
No it isn't. SEX is biological, GENDER is your self-conception of being male/female/gendergueer/two-spirit/androgyne/other.
They are two different things.
No it isn't though. Gender isn't exclusively sex, it's about gender identity. There are two very different things. Yes, it has been used to describe biological sex, but it is usually used to describe something a lot deeper.
A short thingy on gender
Why not?
So it's like I said. You might not think that someone being gay makes them the wrong gender, but whatever you do think does that is based on what is "expected by society". Same principle.
Do you think nature would (could) make you tall and give you a short body? Or that it would (could) make you a blonde and give you dark hair? I don't think that's possible. Same as with nature making you a woman and giving you a male body or the other way around.
But gender bias is controlled hormonally, whereas hair colour by and large isn't.
gen·der (jndr)
n.
1. Grammar
a. A grammatical category used in the classification of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and, in some languages, verbs that may be arbitrary or based on characteristics such as sex or animacy and that determines agreement with or selection of modifiers, referents, or grammatical forms.
b. One category of such a set.
c. The classification of a word or grammatical form in such a category.
d. The distinguishing form or forms used.
2. Sexual identity, especially in relation to society or culture.
3.
a. The condition of being female or male; sex.
b. Females or males considered as a group: expressions used by one gender.
tr.v. gen·dered, gen·der·ing, gen·ders
To engender.
Nothing about self conception there.
Yes there is
Yes they do.
Biology affects the way we think. I don't see what the problem is in admitting that there are difference between the sexes, both biological and psychological?