;_; I just lost a huge entire forum post huhuhu *cry*

so i'll make this short and simple, without  much explanation and such--

:) please give an explanation for your answer if you'd life to--

 

"Do you consider yourself feminist?"

 

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I don't, but i also do to a degree. it depends on your definition of it. imagine you're standing in a circle with other girls, your peers. you are asked "yes" or "no" questions. if your answer is yes, you take a step into the circle. if no, just stay standing where you are. when i was asked this question in a circle game of maybe thirty girls, i think i was the only one who didn't step in at this question.

this was a few months ago; makes me wonder...

oh i see... Well, i don't consider myself a feminist. I believe in 'equal rights' (?). Both men and women are important, so I guess it's hard to decide, if I was playing the game, if I would stay still or make 1 step...

wow, see. if you were playing the game, you'd only have a second to decide though. so i guess you wouldnt step in, like me. i agree with you. i also believe in equal rights. but im weird, like i dont mind if a woman decides to be a stay-at-home mother and the cook of the house kind of thing. im not like a woman warrior, i dont think i'd go out in a picket line lol. but i do think women of course can decide whatever they want to be, but also can stick to the old stereotype if thats what they *want* to do and i wont disapprove of their choice of lifestyle.

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funny fact: a lot of these girls i played the game with made fun of a professor we had for being a feminist (im not sure why, maybe the way she dressed was a bit of an indicator: kind of hippy way, but wasnt bad ^^;) but she wasnt a vehement advocate who went out of her way to talk about women's rights all the time in class discussions. yet these same girls who talked about how weird she was for being feminist also themselves claimed to be feminist when asked and only given a second to answer--they obviously had no doubt that they were in that amount of time, right (hypocrites?)?

Im sorry idk but what does femenist mean? srry

Animefan123 wrote: Im sorry idk but what does femenist mean? srry

np sweety sis :) a feminist is a person who advocates social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men. in general, its a person who wants equal rights for women as men have. it can have different meanings to other people, like some may think feminism is just supporting women's rights /equal rights in general. but others may think (and thus wouldnt consider themselves one) a feminist (a person who supports feminism) is more of a person who thinks women should be equal to men in all ways minus the modesty aspect of women, like that they can have any job and shouldnt have children or clean the house or be the cook of the house when (if they do) marry, etc. hmm i hope i helped you understand..??

i may be a woman, a mother to 2 young girls (and a boy), a wife and many other things but i guess i'm not a feminist. i don't know what's wrong with me... it's just that i believe that men and women are equal. (like most of you believed in) and sometimes, other women are just using their power to get what they want. it's kinda hard to explain but i know you're all getting what i mean. ^_^

lobsteria24 wrote: i may be a woman, a mother to 2 young girls (and a boy), a wife and many other things but i guess i'm not a feminist. i don't know what's wrong with me... it's just that i believe that men and women are equal. (like most of you believed in) and sometimes, other women are just using their power to get what they want. it's kinda hard to explain but i know you're all getting what i mean. ^_^

yes, i understand--that's my opinion on it too. i think those who call themselves feminist in todays day in age are like extremists lol because well i mean in most places in the world, which is what im talking about, men and women do have equal rights. and women shouldnt take advantage because their rights are more of a recent more touchy subject, i guess. in that way, theyre showing themselves as the weaker sex actually and so in reality are hypocrites. aiii lol haha sorry my rant. x] ^^;;; pardon~ hope you understand what i mean~~

I guess I am. I came from an all-girls school before univ. So, they instilled feminism into us. Now, I'm in a male-infested college. Some of them are really old-fashioned with the man is superior mindset. Somebody has to knock them off. XD

Well, if i were to answer no to this question, my university woman's studies professor would come over here and  bash me.  She would swim if she had to!  

tsaritsa wrote: I guess I am. I came from an all-girls school before univ. So, they instilled feminism into us. Now, I'm in a male-infested college. Some of them are really old-fashioned with the man is superior mindset. Somebody has to knock them off. XD

see this is where your personal definition/to what degree you use the word comes in. i can def. understand this. they shouldn't think they are superior, no way. grrr. lol. yeah, knock em off meg! hah ;)

 

at my job, they gave me easy stuff when my first partner left...he had given me the same work that he did and taught me a lot, but when he went on furlough (had to take weeks off from work), i was undermined, my strength and working ability and knowledge totally underestimated since i was the small girl on the job.

but i knew how to do a lot more than they gave me credit for, thats for sure. they gave me easy stupid jobs--which is probably why they ended up laying me off! grrr! i wish my first partner hadnt left. i wasnt lazy. but when they gave me easy stupid things to do, i felt like its not even worth putting more effort in to finish faster or anything. now im out of that job and angry at those stupid men. they made fun of me and treated me like i was a weakling. but they never gave me any test of strength so they wouldnt have known what a good worker i really could be, how much i can really do there. ugh whatever. --fuming a little still obviously lol--

knock em off their high horse. just cause theyre taller or bigger (stupid fat men btw -_- srsly gosh!) doesnt mean theyre better at any job than me! i could do anything they can, better and faster! just not with ridiculously heavy things -.- but thats cheap...i do have muscle and can actually carry quite a bit HMPH~....

lolitagirl wrote: Well, if i were to answer no to this question, my university woman's studies professor would come over here and  bash me.  She would swim if she had to!   Yes I am, proudly. I am a pink, little girl, who dresses like a little girl (happily) and a feminist. Japan is really really behind the times.  Things are slowly getting better for women, but not by much.   I have never seen a woman train driver and only one woman bus driver and taxi driver.  Most of these jobs are done by men.   There are very very few women company presidents in comparison to men...  But this is changing slowly.. I guess. What drives me crazy is the way older Japanese men tend to treat their wives.  They get home and say "okasan, beer!  Okasan, gohan!"  (mom, beer! Mom, Food)   no please, no nothing.. just a "bring it to me now" like you would treat a slave!   And I invite some older women to some events or or something and they tell me "Oh, my husband will be home... I cant go..."  or "I'll have to ask my husband to see if it is ok..."   I am thinking in the back of my head  "you are in your 60's, you husband is NOT you parent!" drives me crazy... but I think the younger generation will be changing for the better.    my parents are totally not like that at all.  Well, my dad nor my brother has ever cleaned a bathroom in their life... but other than that they are pretty equal.  I can say that I have cleaned a bathroom, and built a deck with my father.   And both my parents love cooking a lot.

actually thats true here. i have only seen like 1 female cab driver and 1 city bus driver in my life. and never a female train engineer/driver. and same with company presidents...but i guess it depends on the company... o_o and i live in NYC! so that is off...~

omg wow yeah o_o if my future spouse or child treated me like that i'd slap it out of them XD jk but seriously, they'd get a verbal smashing beat-down~!!!~ i'd so walk out~ grrr. ! wow yeah here guys are still stupid and disrespectful but as spouses i see more of a balance going on, both have jobs, treat each other as equals, cook and care for one another kind of thing. but only sometimes. not enough--i dont see it enough i mean. too often it is like you say. hmph.

thats nice ^^ my dad cleans and fixes up the house in lots of ways :) but he doesnt know how to cook lol my mom does all the cooking. but he can put something in the oven for me to cook out of a package if mom's not home. XD lol. he's the gentle kind one of my parents i think (shhh lol) and he cleans bathrooms, does the vacuuming, etc.  but my bro is just a like special case xD he only recently, after age of 21, realized to flush the toilet kind of thing, or go out with his car to buy himself food if my mom isnt home to give him any. LOL. oh gosh he's a poor lil dependent soul i tell ya xD. aiish. -shakes head- i hope he will learn sooner than later -___-;;~ ---ehem sorry off topic there lol---