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Feminism is a range of social movements, political movements, and ideologies that aim to define, establish, and achieve the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes. Feminism incorporates the position that societies prioritize the male point of view, and that women are treated unjustly within those societies. Early first and second wave Feminism sought parody with there male counterparts, however, later feminist movements adopted a more intersectional theory. Contemporary Feminists critic toxic elements of masculine and feminine culture. Feminism does not deny or downplay the difference between men and women, as at often times it seeks to accommodate the needs of men and women. Feminists do not oppose homemaking, child-rearing, and or homeschooling by women, only that women should have the choice to do what they want. Most prominent modern feminists support [[abortion]], though feminism and being anti-abortion are not mutually exclusive. | Feminism is a range of social movements, political movements, and ideologies that aim to define, establish, and achieve the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes. Feminism incorporates the position that societies prioritize the male point of view, and that women are treated unjustly within those societies. Early first and second wave Feminism sought parody with there male counterparts, however, later feminist movements adopted a more intersectional theory. Contemporary Feminists critic toxic elements of masculine and feminine culture. Feminism does not deny or downplay the difference between men and women, as at often times it seeks to accommodate the needs of men and women. Feminists do not oppose homemaking, child-rearing, and or homeschooling by women, only that women should have the choice to do what they want. Most prominent modern feminists support [[abortion]], though feminism and being anti-abortion are not mutually exclusive. | ||
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Most modern feminists: | Most modern feminists: | ||
| − | * | + | * Want to Liberate all genders form arbitrary societal dress expectations. |
| − | + | * Will levey substantive critic of our television, movies and media. | |
| − | + | * View traditional [[marriage]] as unacceptably "patriarchal". | |
| − | + | * seek parody with other genders with [[affirmative action]] for women. | |
| − | + | * advocate for [[women in combat]] in the military just like men. | |
| − | + | * Some will refuse to take her husband's last name when marrying. | |
| − | * | + | * Study history wholistic, not only with the perspective of men. |
| − | * | + | * Often condemn the God-given order of gender roles, as laid out in the Holy [[Bible]], as this would require the proof god, and/or proof of the divine inspiration of the bible. |
| − | + | * object to being addressed as "ma'am,", feminine nicknames such as "sweetheart" or "honey" or the causal tip of the fedora. | |
| − | + | * Take offense at the incorrect grammatical rules of the English language, like using the pronoun "he" when referring to a hypothetical/anonymous person, or phrases like 'fireman' and 'stewardess.' | |
| − | * advocate for [[women in combat]] in the military just like men | + | * support the LGBTQI+ community. |
| − | * refuse to take her husband's last name when marrying. | + | * Stacy won date me. |
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| − | * object to being addressed as "ma'am," | + | |
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* 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."<ref>https://www.mediafire.com/folder/e02pmeur6q4yb/World_History_up_to_the_1500s</ref> | * 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."<ref>https://www.mediafire.com/folder/e02pmeur6q4yb/World_History_up_to_the_1500s</ref> | ||
* demands that women choose a career over raising children without any remorse. | * demands that women choose a career over raising children without any remorse. | ||
* criticize music such as [[heavy metal music|heavy metal]], [[rock and roll]], and [[country music|country]] for being "sexist". | * criticize music such as [[heavy metal music|heavy metal]], [[rock and roll]], and [[country music|country]] for being "sexist". | ||
| − | * object to anyone | + | * object to anyone wanting to women to have lower standards as desperate |
* Denounce and demean any women who have more feminine traits and embrace their femininity. | * Denounce and demean any women who have more feminine traits and embrace their femininity. | ||
| + | * Stacy won date me the audacity of this fucking bitch. I'm literally shaking. Fucking shaking. | ||
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==History== | ==History== | ||
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| + | The history of the modern western feminist movement is divided into four "waves". The first comprised of women's suffrage movements of the 19th and early-20th centuries, promoting women's right to vote. The second wave, the women's liberation movement, began in the 1960s and campaigned for legal and social equality for women. In or around 1992, a third wave was identified, characterized by a focus on individuality and diversity.[30] The fourth wave, from around 2012, used social media to combat sexual harassment, violence against women and rape culture; it is best known for the Me Too movement.[31] | ||
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| + | First-wave feminism was a period of activity during the 19th and early-20th centuries. In the UK and US, it focused on the promotion of equal contract, marriage, parenting, and property rights for women. New legislation included the Custody of Infants Act 1839 in the UK, which introduced the tender years doctrine for child custody and gave women the right of custody of their children for the first time.[32][33][34] Other legislation, such as the Married Women's Property Act 1870 in the UK and extended in the 1882 Act,[35] became models for similar legislation in other British territories. Victoria passed legislation in 1884 and New South Wales in 1889; the remaining Australian colonies passed similar legislation between 1890 and 1897. With the turn of the 19th century, activism focused primarily on gaining political power, particularly the right of women's suffrage, though some feminists were active in campaigning for women's sexual, reproductive, and economic rights too.[36] | ||
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.<ref>For example, the [[Hawaii]] and [[Massachusetts]] Supreme Courts illegally ordered the issuance of homosexual "marriage" licenses based in part on their on their state ERAs, and the [[New Mexico]] Supreme Court illegally ordered taxpayer-funded abortion based on its state ERA.</ref> | 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.<ref>For example, the [[Hawaii]] and [[Massachusetts]] Supreme Courts illegally ordered the issuance of homosexual "marriage" licenses based in part on their on their state ERAs, and the [[New Mexico]] Supreme Court illegally ordered taxpayer-funded abortion based on its state ERA.</ref> | ||
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Feminism is a range of social movements, political movements, and ideologies that aim to define, establish, and achieve the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes. Feminism incorporates the position that societies prioritize the male point of view, and that women are treated unjustly within those societies. Early first and second wave Feminism sought parody with there male counterparts, however, later feminist movements adopted a more intersectional theory. Contemporary Feminists critic toxic elements of masculine and feminine culture. Feminism does not deny or downplay the difference between men and women, as at often times it seeks to accommodate the needs of men and women. Feminists do not oppose homemaking, child-rearing, and or homeschooling by women, only that women should have the choice to do what they want. Most prominent modern feminists support abortion, though feminism and being anti-abortion are not mutually exclusive.
Most modern feminists:
- Want to Liberate all genders form arbitrary societal dress expectations.
- Will levey substantive critic of our television, movies and media.
- View traditional marriage as unacceptably "patriarchal".
- seek parody with other genders with affirmative action for women.
- advocate for women in combat in the military just like men.
- Some will refuse to take her husband's last name when marrying.
- Study history wholistic, not only with the perspective of men.
- Often condemn the God-given order of gender roles, as laid out in the Holy Bible, as this would require the proof god, and/or proof of the divine inspiration of the bible.
- object to being addressed as "ma'am,", feminine nicknames such as "sweetheart" or "honey" or the causal tip of the fedora.
- Take offense at the incorrect grammatical rules of the English language, like using the pronoun "he" when referring to a hypothetical/anonymous person, or phrases like 'fireman' and 'stewardess.'
- support the LGBTQI+ community.
- Stacy won date me.
- 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."[1]
- 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 wanting to women to have lower standards as desperate
- Denounce and demean any women who have more feminine traits and embrace their femininity.
- Stacy won date me the audacity of this fucking bitch. I'm literally shaking. Fucking shaking.
Contents
History
==Waves==
The history of the modern western feminist movement is divided into four "waves". The first comprised of women's suffrage movements of the 19th and early-20th centuries, promoting women's right to vote. The second wave, the women's liberation movement, began in the 1960s and campaigned for legal and social equality for women. In or around 1992, a third wave was identified, characterized by a focus on individuality and diversity.[30] The fourth wave, from around 2012, used social media to combat sexual harassment, violence against women and rape culture; it is best known for the Me Too movement.[31]
First-wave feminism was a period of activity during the 19th and early-20th centuries. In the UK and US, it focused on the promotion of equal contract, marriage, parenting, and property rights for women. New legislation included the Custody of Infants Act 1839 in the UK, which introduced the tender years doctrine for child custody and gave women the right of custody of their children for the first time.[32][33][34] Other legislation, such as the Married Women's Property Act 1870 in the UK and extended in the 1882 Act,[35] became models for similar legislation in other British territories. Victoria passed legislation in 1884 and New South Wales in 1889; the remaining Australian colonies passed similar legislation between 1890 and 1897. With the turn of the 19th century, activism focused primarily on gaining political power, particularly the right of women's suffrage, though some feminists were active in campaigning for women's sexual, reproductive, and economic rights too.[36]
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.[2]
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."[3][4]
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.[5][6]
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." [7]
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."[8]
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. [2]
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 [3]
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,[9]
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
The Feminist movement is part of the Cultural Marxist attack on the family. Studies have shown 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.[10]
Quotations
Atheist feminism
See also: Atheist feminism and Atheism and women's rights and Atheism and women
Surveys throughout the world and other data indicate that women are less inclined to be atheists.[12] [13] 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:
| “ | 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.[14] | ” |
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).[15] 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.[16][17] 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."[18]
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
References
- ↑ https://www.mediafire.com/folder/e02pmeur6q4yb/World_History_up_to_the_1500s
- ↑ For example, the Hawaii and Massachusetts Supreme Courts illegally ordered the issuance of homosexual "marriage" licenses based in part on their on their state ERAs, and the New Mexico Supreme Court illegally ordered taxpayer-funded abortion based on its state ERA.
- ↑ http://worthy-magazine.com/hugh-hefner-defender-of-women-says-republicans-at-war-with-sex/
- ↑ http://rosemarycounter.com/hugh-hefner-dirty-old-man-or-radical-feminist/
- ↑ Odone, Christina Left-wing misogyny is alive and well: The party’s feminist agenda allows Labour men to get away with sexist behaviour (2 June 2005) The Times
- ↑ Jackson, Candice E. "Their Lives: The Women Targeted by the Clinton Machine" (World Ahead Publishing; 2005) ISBN 0-9746-7013-8
- ↑ Stride Toward Freedom : The Montgomery Story, Martin Luther King, Jr., Harper and Rowe, New York, 1958, p. 203.
- ↑ Larrey Anderson, The Feminine Mistake, American Thinker, November 29, 2009
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/07/no_author/bowling-alone-how-washington-has-helped-destroy-american-civil-society-and-family-life/
- ↑ Bekiempis, Victoria (Summer 2011). "Why the New Atheism is a boys' club". Bitch Magazine, no. 51. Retrieved from September 26, 2011 edition of The Guardian/CommentaryIsFree.
- ↑ Khan, Razib (November 18, 2010). "Gene expression; Sex differences in global atheism, part N". Discover magazine website.
- Carter, Stephen L. (March 27, 2015). "The atheism gap". BloombergView.
- Atheism and Feminism, Oxford University Press blog
- ↑ Myers, P.Z. (June 29, 2010). "The woman problem". Pharyngula [blog].
- ↑ Bekiempis, Victoria (Summer 2011). "Why the New Atheism is a boys' club". Bitch Magazine, no. 51. Retrieved from September 26, 2011 edition of The Guardian/CommentaryIsFree.
- ↑ Confirmed: "Men’s Rights Activism" Is For Misogynists Without God, Raw Story
- ↑ Kimberlé Crenshaw on Intersectionality, More than Two Decades Later.
- ↑ Kimberlé Krenshaw (1989). Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics. University of Chicago Legal Forum. Retrieved on 7 June 2020.
- ↑ Meet Femen, the ‘naked shock troops of feminism’ who greeted Trump with a topless protest in Paris, By Antonia Noori Farzan, Washington Post, November 12, 2018
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.
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