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That is unfortunatly not true on paper, there is laws that have been done specialy to protect women and those haven't been created for men as well.
Men and women are different and always will be.
There is stuff women do men can't do and there is stuff men do women can't do. It is the way it is and it is define by the gender. First at all our bodies can't do the same, our brains are not the same and we don't think the same.
In front of the law, tho, there should be equality, but it is not there yet.
Now in front of the law women are in favor and frankly I have no problem with that, the world has been a men world nearly since forever, it is about time stuff are done for women.
But in some cases some laws for women sucks tho...
If some of you have seen some father and divorce forums there is a lot
of case that end up in favor of the women even tho it shouldn't be that way.
In france that for sure. A mate of mine got married, less than a year after his wife left him for an other man and he ended up paying her 6,000 euros even so they have been together for 7 years and he has always be the only one working and provided her with everything she needed. He is even lucky as she could have even ask a life pension!
My ex-wife left me and have broken at least 3 main laws of french marriage, but she will end up taking some cash off of me, even if I brang more money into her marriage than she did and she can also ask for a life pension which all I can do is hope she will not do, otherwise I'll have to pay her for life for screwing me over...
And after they wonder why some of us don't believe in laws, justice and equality for all...
Who needs it anymore when its such a corrupted and abused concept.
Germaine Greer!
It was tongue-in-cheek.
Who told you it was about superiority. Thats such an annoying myth
go on, flame me.
I concur, RB.
The original feminist philosophy was right, justified, and accurate, i.e. what was written in Germaine Greer's day.
What came later and recently has changed and corrupted the core principles, hence why there are so many court cases of sexual discrimination for claims of millions of pounds or dollers over things like been asked to work and do their jobs.
Read what i actually say in future and not what you want to see scarlette. It may help you not look silly by been insulting for no reason.
The main problem i have with feminism is the refusal to accept inherent difference between man and woman - if i acted/spoke the same way to both males and females for example, i wouldn't be too popular with the opposite sex. And that's a massive understatement.
Yes, you're right.
Women shouldn't be treated as second class citizens, but ignoring fundamental differences is problematic.
Femininity is a highly attractive virtue, that's something which needs to be recognised and not discarded.
I see it as encompassing more and a political ideology, it's a collection of philosophies, feminism can talk about gender sterotypes, women's rights, gender roles, sometimes even ecology... And so on.
Greer was by no means the first feminist. I hope you didn't put her down as the first in your assignment. What about Wollstonecraft? The Suffragette movement? Just to start.
I don't see how anybody can have an issue with women wanting the same rights as men. Personally I like being able to vote, I like the fact we have the pill and that we are entitled to equal wages.
Oh yes. :yes:
subject13, if your journey through feminist literature hasn't already led you to 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman' then I suggest you seek it out.
It was written over 200 years ago.
What sort of things are you specifically talking about when you talk about equality on man's terms?
I can see your point, but the nature of masculinity and femininity are such that they can't be equal in all spheres of life.
Which movement? There isn't one "feminist movement". There are many different schools of thought under that banner. Liberal, women centred, Marxist etc. Its a nonsense to say "feminism is this or that" without telling us which feminsim you're talking about.
how much of that is due to inherent differences and how much due to socialised differences?
Bit of both, but there are significant inherent differences between males and females.
"feminity" is socially constructed. Not the fact that men and women are different, but how that difference manifests itself, what it means culturally and how it influences power relations. So merely saying "Femininity is a highly attractive virtue" is meaningless without unpacking what "feminity" actually means, who gets to define it, how the ideals are transmitted, who stands to gain/lose etc.
Yes, there are differences. How significant (or not) they are however is not known. So much of how we perceive "masculinity" and "femininity" is dependent on social and cultural context.