Thank you for that. The responses on this thread don't surprise me. There are a lot of bitter males on FR who hate women and blame them for everything. Thank goodness not all of them are that way. The fact is, men benefited just as much, if not more, from feminism. Thanks to feminism, women became much more loose sexually, and they started having more abortions, which got men off the hook for child support or shotgun weddings. There is plenty of blame to go around for the consequences of feminism.
Whenever I see the movie Miracle on 34th Steet, there's a scene that really strikes me. Maureen O'Hara's character is an executive at a big department store. She has an office and a secretary and appears to be equal to all the male executives. Apparently movie goers in the '40s didn't find anything odd about this. Anyway, there's one scene where all of the executives are called into the big boss's office. Maureen O'Hara is one of the last to arrive, and the only female. When she walks into the office, all of the men stand up. Every time I see that scene, I think how lovely it was that women actually used to be treated that way, and how maybe, when we fought for equal rights, we shouldn't have thrown the baby out with the bath water. Feminism has, IMO, done more harm than good.
Yep it has...and I am a woman. Never was on their bandwagon and never will be. The idea of equal pay is good though..but based on preformance not because you're just doing the same job. I am a performance type individual when it comes to the workplace...believe employeers should not have to be "fair" the way it's being played out today. If you're not doing the job the other guy is doing in meeting expectations ...well then learn how to or your done and need to find something else more suited.
I agree that feminism has done a great deal of harm, mostly because it wanted to deny that men and women are different, made for different things and that that was a GOOD thing. My mother worked when I was a kid (back when most mothers were still at home) so I never felt that I couldn’t do whatever it was I wanted. However, I missed having her at home, so when I got married and had kids I wanted to be home with them more than I wanted to have a career. I’m glad we have choices, but to deny that men and women are different is crazy. I for one love men the way they are, even when they annoy me! Viva la difference! :)