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SatanBurger · 36-40, F
I think feminism means different things to different people and so it's impossible to be for or against it. I don't really get the die hards on either side because feminism to me just means human rights but one can also be for human rights and recognize that there's different problems that affect each gender separately. On the male side there's court and legal issues. I could be wrong, so this is just my observation but I hear the courts almost always favor women and male abuse victims especially those of rape are laughed at because we live in a machismo society.
However on the female side, males have never had to fight to be an engineer. I don't remember what decade it was but there was a point in time where brilliant female scientists were nobodies. In school they basically prepped you to be a housewife. Nothing wrong if you want to be one but they should have made those optional classes and not a societal norm. Let's not forget the Magdalene Laundries were some women were locked up because they considered rape a scandal and it wasn't until 1990 that they made marital rape illegal. So if an abuser manipulated a spouse into marrying them, congrats they could rape you because you're property. 1990 wasn't all that long ago.
My fellow feminists in Africa (well they don't call them feminists) but there's an all female tribe because in their part of the country the male can beat his wife and they can't go for help. So this tribe made up of abuse victims gathered together and made their own village. That to me is feminism at its most core, sticking by each other when society shuns and abuses them:
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrnmBLB-UX4&]
However on the female side, males have never had to fight to be an engineer. I don't remember what decade it was but there was a point in time where brilliant female scientists were nobodies. In school they basically prepped you to be a housewife. Nothing wrong if you want to be one but they should have made those optional classes and not a societal norm. Let's not forget the Magdalene Laundries were some women were locked up because they considered rape a scandal and it wasn't until 1990 that they made marital rape illegal. So if an abuser manipulated a spouse into marrying them, congrats they could rape you because you're property. 1990 wasn't all that long ago.
My fellow feminists in Africa (well they don't call them feminists) but there's an all female tribe because in their part of the country the male can beat his wife and they can't go for help. So this tribe made up of abuse victims gathered together and made their own village. That to me is feminism at its most core, sticking by each other when society shuns and abuses them:
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrnmBLB-UX4&]