Inter2002 wrote:
Well that sucks. I always had thought that feminism was all about EQUAL GENDER RIGHTS not about ABANDONING TRADITIONAL GENDER ROLES. Well I'm all for both men and women having the right to vote, drive, go to school, learn to read and write, drink, work. But I'm against DOUBLE STANDARDS
Nowadays feminism is NOT about equal gender rights. Nowadays feminism is about leaving your family and abandon your husband and your sons (Linda Hirshman) - feminism is also totally into a new different form of justice (as women are different) and is going even so far to demand to shut down all jails for female offenders. - The workplace should be equally divided in a so-called quota-regulation, which demands at least 40 percent of all employees (but only those in higher position of course) must be women regardless their qualification.
Nowadays feminism wants to send men to jail as sex-offenders, considering them as guilty despite there is no proof for that except the word of a woman against his word. - Of course when it comes out that all is merely a false rape allegation, the woman walks out free of the courtroom with a short community work sentence for filing a wrong police report.
Women are not violent, says the feminist - however research, rarely published, points out that women are at least as violent as men and often instigating and provoking violent and otherwise criminal behavior of men.
In my own native strongly pro-feminist country in Central Europe, women retire with 60 and men with 65 - but as you said they are against DOUBLE STANDARDS and do not understand why women get a lower retirement allowance than men. Therefore as men die earlier than women and working more years than women, there is money left over in the male retirement fond, while money is missing in the female retirement fond. Instead to increase the pension for men, the leftover is being transferred to the female retirement fond... Fair? I don't think so.
Military services are obligatory und unpaid in my native country, of course for men only. For women there is nothing, even no obligatory community service like hospital helper - instead we offer contracts to Filipinas and other immigrants to do these jobs...
Yes, this is feminism... You might also check out the educational sector, with mainly women as teachers, telling boys what not to do and girls what to do etc. etc. - Feminism is now everywhere, I also wonder if women get so little pay, why companies are still willing to employ male workers...
There is even a public restroom regulation existing in USA and some other countries - 2 toilet cubes are reserved for women, but for men 1 urinal is good enough, because women need do much longer to piss... so it is fair to calculate restrooms 2:1.
In feminist crazy Norway, women were demanding to removal of urinals even in elementary schools, as boys should not do what girls cannot.
There are plenty of stories about what feminism really means, some demands about equality are comical, some others however are seriously a pain, especially for divorced men and fathers.