I'm all for equal rights and opportunities for women. But the problem with feminism is that it's just another form of collectivism, or another way of expanding the government into our lives, if you will.
Feminists denigrate straight, white men. They blame them for every single evil of the world. And equality of opportunity is not enough for them. Like their fellow leftists, they demand equality of outcome. So for example if there are only male firefighters, it's because of discrimination against women by the evil, patriarchal white man. Feminists ignore the fact that most women weigh less than men, have less lean muscle mass than men, and therefore are unable to carry a 200 lb. man out of a burning building. Feminists want the standards lowered so there can be female firefighters, and never mind that they won't be able to do with job as well as the men. Never mind that people in burning buildings would die if the women can't carry them out, they want women firefighters, or else!
And while they're denigrating straight white men, and telling women they don't need men, they want to make the government into the father/husband figure for all women. They want government mandated daycare for all children. In other words, they want a nanny state. Why do you think so many liberal women in the big cities vote Democrat?
The feminists also denigrate female modesty, and women who choose to stay home to raise their children. They don't want any mothers staying home to raise their children, unless they're black women on welfare, or illegal alien teenagers popping out anchor babies.
I few months ago, I read an article in National Review about a white married right wing women living in Massachussetts, who had three small kids, and who was pregnant with her fourth child (or something like that). She wrote about strangers who would come up to her out of nowhere, who asked her how she managed with all those children, and how many more she was planning on having.
Now since this is Massachussetts, whose residents see fit to repeatedly send John Kerry and Ted Kennedy to the Senate, I have a hard time believing any of these people would go up to some Hispanic woman with four kids, or some black woman with kids and ask them the same question. They would never do it because they would either get stabbed to death, or they'd have the snot beaten out of them at the very least. But most importantly, they wouldn't ask those questions of these women because it's not politically correct for liberals to criticize the fecundity of Third Worlders. White, married, middle class women, on the other hand are fair game for them.
Anyway, sorry for the rant. But that's just my opinion.
Topic: Please: I would like to know REAL thoughts on the Womens Lib movement. (Read 12693 times)