Da Feminism Thread

[Crazed Rabbit]

What? No, it isn't. It's a comment on the way people planning ahead is shunted down particular paths due to economic circumstances outside of their control.

That's insulting to women, isn't it? To say that the initial economic advantage outlined in that cartoon you linked to is outside their control, or that the choice of when or if to have children is outside their control.

CR

[Husar]

I find this thread depressing, like most discussion on gender and the stereotyping that always comes with it. And I didn't even read half the posts due to a lack of time.

A lot of these things are in the eye of the beholder, are shaped by experience, surroundings and what we learned, coming to a common understanding is almost impossible.

I could give you my view but some of you would think I'm an inexperienced idiot so I won't.

[Syl]

I think its time for me to withdraw from this thread. I support feminism and equality--I truly do. I tend to date open-minded and active women, and am not the least bit attracted to your typical house wife no matter how good she looks.

I just firmly believe that this is an issue that divides people who would otherwise work together on bigger issues. As this argument goes on, some of you are trying (and suceeding) to paint my posts as anti-woman or anti-feminism, and I don't want that to be the case.

Gelatinous Cube,

I know you're not anti-woman at all. Nothing you have said even remotely suggests that, and I am not trying to imply anything like that. You seem like a really great and open minded guy from almost everything I've read from you in these forums. I understand that you feel feminism is divisive and that it takes attention away from other important issues. My opinion on it is very very different and I'm pretty passionate about it, and I believe a lot of people have a very wrong impression on what feminism stands for. I believe it's still important and involves a lot of issues that are still relevant today, even with so much of the incredible progress we've made.

That said, our disagreement is not much more than that, and I don't want you to feel that I'm attacking you or trying to construe you as something different.