Feminism

Woman with a guitar by Georges Braque, 1913.

Feminism is an ideology that fights for equal rights. Feminism downplays differences between men and women; feminists believe that women should be able to lead as full lines as men and not be unduly burdened by homemaking, child-rearing, They promote participation by women in the same pursuits as menpredominantly male. Most prominent modern feminists believe that women should have full control over their bodies, though they believe that education and freely available birthing control and aid for young mothers should be used to reduce the number of abortions now performed..

Feminist comment on the privileges of their male counterparts.

Eeminism care critical of marriages, relationships, child-rearing, education and the workplace. The feminist ideology is particularly dominates universities, many large corporations, and women's team sports. Feminists want to make men and women equal but in reality.

Feminism was originally an expression used by suffragettes – who were predominantly pro-life – to obtain the right for women to vote in the early 1900s in the United States and the United Kingdom. By the 1970s, however, at the height of what was termed Second-wave feminism, liberals had changed the meaning to represent people who favored abortion and identical roles for women in the military and in society as a whole. Today in the midst of what is called Third-wave feminism, some feminists are advocatese of lcensorship and political correctness, at the expense of free speech. In fact, much of what drove Second-wave feminism and what now drives Third-wave feminism was derived, according to some conservative thinkers, from Communist doctrine, including the shared goal of the destruction of the family and the promotion of homosexuality and promiscuity (via Goal 26 of the 1963 Communist goals for America).

Most feminists:

• Want gender equality.
• Believe that there no major differences many areas between men and women (e.g., women and men equally in military combat), but reject equality when that results in more money to women (e.g., VAWA funding of women's groups).^{[Citation Needed]}
• Oppose chivalry and even feign insult at harmless displays of it (see battle between the sexes).
• View traditional marriage as patriarchal.
• shirk traditional gender activities, like baking.
• support affirmative action for women.
• Advocate for women in combat in the military just like men, and coed submarines.
• Choose not to take her husband's last name when marrying.
• Believe marriage can involve "female servitude" ratherbthan a mutual bond.
• distort historical focus onto female figures, often overshadowing important events (E.g.: Henry VIII's wives take precedence in common knowledge to his actual reign.)
• Often condemn ther gender roles, as laid out in the Holy Bible for the ancient Hebrews
• Believe that homosexuals.should be shown respect
• push propaganda that implies that women weren't allowed to be granted an education until the 1960s, and all education beforehand was granted solely to "rich white males."
• demands that women choose a career over raising children without any remorse.
• criticize music such as heavy metal, rock and roll, and country for being "sexist".
• object to anyone describing Northern and Western European women being demure or Southern and Eastern European women as seductive.
• Denounce and demean any women who have more feminine traits and embrace their femininity.

Note that women who have to take over the family business due to their parents not having a son and the parents themselves being unable to continue working at the area is not considered feminist due to the circumstances involved. Some feminists want to do away with masculinity.

History

Roots of the movement in the United States and the United Kingdom include the Women's Suffrage movement of the early 1900s (First-wave feminism) and the Women's Liberation (Second-wave feminism) movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Feminism was glamourized in the 1940s and 1950s by Hollywood film stars such as Joan Crawford, attempting to portray a single mother as having a successful career and family without a husband. Second-wave feminism had its roots from Betty Friedan and Simone de Beauvoir, who both advocated for the abolition of the career of housewife with the false implication that it was comparable to a Nazi concentration camp or a parasite, though they are more akin to the later third-wave feminism, as they fought against what they saw as patriarchal systems designed to hold women down. Another notable feminist was Simone Veil, who was instrumental to legalizing abortion in France. One of her key methods to its legalization was citing her experience as a holocaust survivor.

The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), whose proponents claimed would address the inadequacies of the Fourteenth Amendment concerning women and citizenship, was proposed in the US in 1923. The amendment passed Congress in 1972 but was ultimately defeated, falling just three states short of the required three-quarters majority on June 30, 1982. Some conservatives, particularly Phyllis Schlafly, felt that its passage would entail adverse consequences, including making girls subject to the military draft, requiring taxpayer-funded abortion, the end of single-sex schools and classes, requiring the issuance of homosexual marriage licenses, and the revocation of laws that protect women in dangerous jobs, such as factory or mining work. Indeed, in states that passed their own versions of ERA, several of these results were subsequently ordered by courts.

The feminist movement in the West evolved in the 1980s with the rise of so-called Post-Feminism (Third-wave feminism), which stresses that women have many rights that go unrecognized, often by women themselves, in everyday life, and in the American legal structure. Most members of the feminist movement support reproductive rights currently guaranteed by American law, including the legal right to abortion. This stance is opposed by many conservatives. Third-wave feminism has been highly influenced by postmodern thought, and is a more intellectual form of feminism. It fights against the systems that it sees as detrimental to women as a group, systems designed to keep women in traditional roles, in contrast with second-wave feminism, which fought for equal rights and pay with men in a fight against the traditional status of women as second class citizens. Another distinction made from second-wave feminism is the claimed recognition of the struggles faced by women who are minorities, disabled, immigrants, etc. (intersection theory), as most second-wave feminists focused only on white suburban middle-class able-bodied women. Second-wave feminism, however, was not always a good thing, as it pushed for abortion.

Leading political commentator Rush Limbaugh to coin the term "Feminazis" to refer to extreme feminist activists.

One of the major features of feminism prior to the 1990s was opposition to women being treated as sex objects. However, some feminists today support women being sex objects, viewing it as a means of empowerment over the traditional Judeo-Christian family structure and conservative values. While there is a push for sex-positive feminism (seen in works like The Vagina Monologues), it is not necessarily a push for the objectification of women. Largely, feminists fight against this objectification of women. The opposite of sex-positive is sex-negative, which is predominately used as a snarl word to label criticizers of the porn industry. Ultimately, however, it continues on the same promotion of liberalism and anti-Christian values, as feminists today treat Islam's cruel treatment of women as a matter of "personal choice". Similarly, the National Organization for Women proceeded to list the likes of Hugh Hefner, the founder of the infamous porn rag Playboy, as a "defender of women."

During the administration of Bill Clinton, feminism made a partial resurgence, although feminist leadership was criticized by people such as Christina Odone and Candice E. Jackson for largely failing to criticize President Clinton's sexist behavior toward female employees as both Arkansas Governor and U.S. president.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a staunch advocate of civil rights and non-violence said, "When a mother has to work she does violence to motherhood by depriving her children of her loving guidance and protection."

Larrey Anderson, philosopher, writer and submissions editor for American Thinker, links feminism to Marxism, and concludes, "Feminism by grounding itself in the philosophy of Hegel and Marx, is condemning women to a new servitude: slavery to the State."

Critique

Christine Hoff Sommers wrote:

... The problem with feminism is not that it has fostered achievement for women. Rather it is feminism's attempts to demean the roles and achievements of men and "feminize" boys that are problematic. [3]

Feminism and reason

See also: Liberals and reason

"Our culture, including all that we are taught in schools and universities, is so infused with patriarchal thinking that it must be torn up root and branch if genuine change is to occur. Everything must go - even the allegedly universal disciplines of logic, mathematics and science, and the intellectual values of objectivity, clarity and precision on which the former depend." — Daphne Patai and Noretta Koertge, Professing Feminism: Cautionary Tales from the Strange World of Women’s Studies, (New York Basic Books, 1994), p.116 [4]

Feminists in the Swedish government on Valentine's Day, February 14, 2017, were urged by the Iranian women's right activist Masih Alinejad “to stand for their own dignity” and to refuse to wear the compulsory hijab while visiting Iran. The pleas were ignored. The Jihad Watch website reported,

Sweden’s female leaders have not only betrayed all women who fight for equality globally, but they have also fully exposed how confused they are: they are so-called feminists who – for example — furiously insist on control over their own bodies to choose abortion, but they are willing to fully submit to male dominance at the demand of Muslim men to dictate their clothing. And they did so in front of a global audience to boot.

Cultural Marxism

While the Feminist movement may contribute to the Cultural Marxist undermining of family values , the main cause is marital breakdown, and fathers who abandon their family, or fail to contribute to the raising of their children, Studies show that:

• 63 percent of youth suicides take place in fatherless homes.
• 90 percent of all homeless youth and runaways are from fatherless homes, which is a whopping 32 times the national average.
• 85 percent of all children with behavior issues come from fatherless homes, 20 times the national average.
• 80 percent of rapists with established anger issues come from fatherless homes, 14 times the national average.
• 71 percent of all high school dropouts come from fatherless homes, nine times the national average.
• 70 percent of those in state-operated institutions come from fatherless homes, nine times the national average.
• 85 percent of all juveniles in prison come from single-parent households, 20 times the national average.
• 90 percent of adolescent repeat arson offenders are from fatherless homes.
• Fatherless children are nearly twice as likely to be victims of abuse or neglect.

Feminism and population decline

The historian Martin van Creveld wrote in his book Equality: The Impossible Quest':

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In many modern societies, the advent of feminism has caused men and women to be placed on a more equal footing than ever before. The catch is that, in most of the societies in question, women, desperately trying to achieve what they see as equality, no longer bear enough children to maintain the population. Some countries, such as the U.S., are making up for the deficit by importing millions of foreigners. Others, such as Japan, seem resigned to gradual demographic decline and hope that robots will make up the difference. If demographics count for anything, the future of patriarchy — not the comparatively mild form of patriarchy that is said to have characterized the West, but the more rigorous Islamic variety—seems assured... If present trends continue, the societies in which the movement towards women’s equality is strongest are simply doomed to disappear.

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Quotations

See Quotations about Feminism

Atheist feminism

See also: Atheist feminism and Atheism and women's rights and Atheism and women

Annie Laurie Gaylor is an atheist feminist. She is co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation. Gaylor's husband, Dan Barker, who heads the organization along with her, is usually the person invited to speaking engagements, despite her longer tenure as the organization's leader and her many books on atheism.

Surveys throughout the world and other data indicate that women are less inclined to be atheists. See: Atheism and women

Atheist feminism is a type of feminism whose advocates are atheists.

Writing on the sexism within the atheist population, atheist Victoria Bekiempis wrote in a Guardian article entitled Why the New Atheism is a boys' club:

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Annie Laurie Gaylor, who founded the Freedom From Religion Foundation with her mother, Anne Nicol Gaylor, in 1978, sums it up succinctly: “One word — sexism.” Gaylor’s husband, Dan Barker, who helms the organization along with her, is usually the one invited to speaking engagements, despite her longer tenure as the organization’s leader and her numerous books on atheism.

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Feminists who are theists often belong to religious bodies which practice liberal theology. In addition, some feminists practice goddess worship. Since atheism rejects theism, atheistic feminism rejects/disbelieves in the existence of God or gods (see: Definition of atheism).

Atheism, women, men and atheist feminism

Since most atheists lean Left politically (see: Atheism and politics) most atheist women are feminists. However, this may not apply to atheist men or apply to a lesser degree, given that a significant majority of atheist are men and that the men's rights movement has many atheist men within it. Reddit is a popular place for atheists and a Reddit survey found that 94% of Men's Rights Movement supporters indicated that they had no religion (see also: Reddit atheism). YouTube's most popular atheist is TheAmazingAtheist who is a men's rights activist. Another popular YouTube atheist Thunderf00t is very critical of feminism within atheism (See also: Atheism plus).

Atheist movement, feminism and schism within atheism

Within the atheist movement post New Atheism and the Elevatorgate controversy, there has been a lot of conflict between atheists concerning feminism. One of the results of the conflict was the new atheist Richard Dawkins losing a lot of public support and support among the irreligious (see: Richard Dawkins' loss of influence).

Atheist feminism and its view of religion

See: Atheist feminism and religion

Intersectionality

As women attain a majority in society and a significant portion of the workforce, including leadership positions, the predicate of "disadvantage" was overtaken by competing "identity groups." In fact, many women identify with these other groups, and a theory was needed to sort out conflicting claims for social redress. For example, should the alleged social handicap of being a black deaf woman be addressed in terms of 1) race, 2) hearing impairment or 3) gender? Under the intersectionality theory, such people should receive accommodations from society for all of their identities and a hierarchy of identify groups governs how much claim each group has to social capital based upon identity. Without intersectionality, the comparative privilege held by women in Western societies would be overshadowed by and put into competition with the claims of other identity groups.

"Intersectionality" was coined by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw in 1989. Without intersectionality, feminism and its advocates would be regarded as out-of-date by social justice warriors.

Femen

See also: Femen and Atheist feminism and Atheism and women

Femen is a Ukrainian radical feminist activist group which is now based in Paris. According to the Washington Post, "Femen’s members consider atheism to be a fundamental tenet of the group’s ideology."

Femen engages in topless publicity stunts/protests. Femen was one of the first radical feminist organizations to gain transnational media publicity.

Christianity and women's rights

See: Christianity and women's rights

See also

• Anti-Feminism
• Me Too Movement
• Essay:Conservative Women Vs. Feminism
• Feminism and housewives
• Feminist style
• Gender equality
• Gender police
• Feminists for Life
• Feminism and reason
• Feminist hypocrisy
• Battered woman syndrome
• Communism and feminism
• Feminist myths
• Feminist nitpicking
• Feminist quotes about Richard Dawkins
• Liberal totalitarianism
• The personal is political
• Misandry
• Erica Jong

External links

• Dana Loesch Rips Feminists on Louder With Crowder
• #SJW Feminist Myths Destroyed by Karen Straughan on Louder With Crowder
• Feminism & Fat Pride: The Unholy Alliance on Louder With Crowder with Paul Joseph Watson
• The Truth About 'Rape Culture' by Paul Joseph Watson
• The Feminist eZine Archive of articles about Feminist History.
• Gloria Steinem and the CIA, The New York Times, February 21, 1967.
• Inside the CIA with Gloria Steinem, Nancy Borman, The Village Voice.
• Why Can't a Woman Be More Like a Man?, Christina Hoff Sommers, The American March/April 2008.
• Conservatives find unlikely ally in fighting transgender rights: Radical feminists, The Washington Post, February 8, 2020.