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Recently a guy I met argued that transsexual women don't have a right to be feminists because they chose a nip and a tuck over being masculine. Does that then, by rights, subject her to subjugation? Here's my answer.
An essay studying specific historical documents written by radical feminists addressing the stereotype that all radical feminists hate men.
There's an epidemic of government and society-encouraged misandry.
The organization known as Feminists for Life is getting a lot of news coverage today. Their currently most prominent member, pro life Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, has been given the nod as John McCain running mate. NOW sulks.
Content producer D Armenta makes a lot of great points in her article "Homemakers and Feminists: Side By Side, Not Head to Head," but there is more that needs to be said.
Sally Kempton and Rosemary Matson both worked for women's rights, but in very different ways, and on opposite sides of the country. Their stories and others are told in a new book, "Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975"
You've come a long way, baby! Feminists and homemakers came to different paths by the same road. Vive la difference.
Modern feminism today can be completely different than what is shown on television. In my paper, I delve into the downfall of modern feminism, or what I like to call Nazi-feminists.
Britney, Paris, and Lindsey are all over the media recently, sometimes showing a little more than they should. But does this give the feminists the right to complain? After all, aren't they proud of these women for being strong, successful and in the public eye?
Not only is it unfair it's extremely dishonest and intellectually lazy. It's your typical, garden variety strawman which is only meant to distract from legitimate issues involved in a subject or debate.
How and why we stereotype, how stereotyping may change as we grow or grow older. For what good purpose is stereotyping?
Minutes after senator John McCain announced his running mate, the opposing party and pundits began to pounce.
Chivalry is supposedly dead but is it dying a slow death because of independent women who want equality in everything, including holding their own door, or are men not being raised with any manners?
There were two significant groups that participated in the feminist movement, and historians refer to them as the "first wave" and "second wave". The first wave partook in the movement during the nineteenth century, and the second wave partook in the late twentieth century.
Ms. Leena claims that women have become men and "lost their feminity along the way".
All men are created equal, according to the United States' Declaration of Independence. Thanks to the feminist movement, men and women today are equals, but we are not the same. Men and women are different, and I firmly believe women are the fairer sex.
Feminists are complaining the news media should concentrate on Michelle Obama's intelligence and not her fashion, but why can't they do both?
Reviews and discusses Riane Eisler's The Chalice and The Blade and discusses whether we as a society are coming upon a time of great change, whether that is needed, and what questions need to be answered in order to move forward.
Radical feminists and religious fundamentalists have something in common: they are against pornography. The radical or extreme feminists argue that pornography degrades women and violates their rights as people.
Is it possible to be a feminist and a stay-at-home mom? Are there any stay-at-home moms who are really feminists? One mother's take on this difficult dichotomy.
In order to begin this investigation, it is first helpful to consider the underlying tenets of feminism and the specific ideologies that feminists use to understand and conceptualize the world.
A look at how feminism liberated men
Think all feminists are anti-porn? Think again. These ladies actually sell sex in the name of feminism.
One of the more fascinating lines of attack on Sarah Palin goes something like this, "What is Sarah Palin thinking trying to become Vice President of the United States when she has five children, one being a special needs down syndrome baby?"
While some branches of feminism encourage natural childbirth because they find that it empowers the female body, other feminists reject natural birth because they feel women are entitled to choice.
Feminism is regarded by feminists as a great movement for the cause of women's rights. Is their cause legitimate or has liberalism changed the picture? Let's look at 5 major concerns:
The model for many modern feminists may be mythical, but she certainly knew how to cause trouble for Adam and his male descendants.
It was the feminists of the 1970's who brought sexual harassment in the workforce to the forefront, before that there was not much recourse for women who were constantly being harassed.
It discusses the views of the extreme feminists which ultimately bring loss on the part of woman as the boundaries set by the almighty can never be crossed.
It was radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh that I first heard use the term "Femi-Nazi". These "femi-nazis" are formally known as feminists. But for some reason, this "new" term may be hitting on something.
Let's take a critical look at today's definition of feminism.
This article is going to take us back in time even though I am covering the feminists of the 1970's at the moment. There is a reason for this diversion no doubt.
Most modern producers and critics of Shakespeare (read: feminists who hate the word "taming") don't just get it wrong when they revise: they make it worse. For example, take the Royal Shakespeare Company's recent production of "Shrew" at the Courtyard Theatre in Stratford.
This article deals with what some women may contemplate when deciding to have children.
Addressing the stereotype that all feminists are hairy-legged lesbians, and looking at why this stigma was attached to begin with.
Thanks to PC feminists, in contrast, we have the theory of the patriarchy and the PC conception of domestic violence (DV), two ideas that are responsible for widespread violations of the civil rights of men and pervasive damage to father-child relationships.
Louisa May Alcott was one of The United States earliest feminists and most treasured novelists. She was a proponent of women's rights and the abolition of slavery.
Women have allowed radical feminists to take over the feminist movement, the one that used to stand for equality, and they've been negatively influencing family law.
Poland made great strides when it came to winning independence from the Communist USSR. Now it needs to grant independence to other oppressed minorities: women, gays and Jews.