Feminism - definition

[peaceful-forest]

How would you define feminism? Do you think feminism is good or bad?


I think the definition of feminism has changed over time. At one point it meant that a woman could decide if she wanted to be a homemaker or go into the workforce. Now it means being sexually immoral and pro-choice things.

 

[PloverWing]

I'm aware that feminists have had a variety of emphases over the years. My own focus is on equal rights and responsibilities, regardless of a person's gender, in civil law, in the church, and in general society.

There are a few areas of life that are not gender-neutral, such as the physical experience of pregnancy and childbirth. Even there, I work towards societal structures that avoid penalizing women for these aspects of life.

I see feminism as a good thing. It's certainly essential to my own well-being.

 

[RDKirk]

There are different identified and defined feminist ideologies. You can start with two of them right off the bat:

Liberal Feminism

Radical Feminism

There is also Black Radical Feminism

The differences are not merely semantic or esoteric, but fundamentally different world views and secular eschatologies.

 

[Maria Billingsley]

How would you define feminism? Do you think feminism is good or bad?


I think the definition of feminism has changed over time. At one point it meant that a woman could decide if she wanted to be a homemaker or go into the workforce. Now it means being sexually immoral and pro-choice things.

Feminism is
Equal rights for women

-Equal pay
-Right to vote
- Education access
-Legal identity like being able to own property and keep wages.
-Equal credit , the ability to open an account, apply for credit without a male cosigner.
- Able to serve on a jury.
- No fault marriage where women were able to divorce their unfaithful abusive husband.
- Able to receive military status.
-Married women's property act.The ability to own property.
-The end of coveture, husbands " owning their wives".
-The end of husbands having sole authority to sending their wives to mental institutions.

 

[Paidiske]

I would define feminism as the belief in the fundamental equality of men and women, and the commitment to creating social realities which reflect that equality. By that definition, I think it's not just good, it's absolutely necessary.

Of course there are different strands of feminist thought and we don't all agree on all the details. I tend to focus on access to education, to employment, and to opportunities for involvement in society (including the church), as well as safe and non-abusive household and family structures.

 

[RamiC]

I have always defined feminism as not wanting anyone, anywhere, to be prevented from doing anything that she wants to do because she is a woman.

I am pro-diversity and suspicious of "equality", but if some women someplace want to do a possible but harmless thing, I am so into freedom I have to say "let them."

Within Christianity, it is about Jesus thinking a lot more of women than the world tends to.

 

[peter2]

I would say that feminism means starting by coming to terms with the natural condition of women.
This is obviously true for women, but it seems to me that, based on this starting point, all humans, and therefore all men, can also be feminists.

Next,
we must recognize that, historically, men have had the advantage of organizing societies according to their own needs, since military conflicts have always placed them in positions of power. The most Western of human societies have thus been organized around the male function, with times of peace being used to organize work with the same mindset.
In short, for me, wars have long placed women in the background in terms of strategic importance.

So I would say that being a feminist means being a pacifist.
Nor is it a female prerogative.

Finally, on a very personal note, I find women who aspire to be the partner of only one man, for life, very admirable. It inspires deep respect.
Aspiring to this is still not a female prerogative.

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