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Originally Posted by Faile
I don't know. I'd consider myself a feminist, though perhaps not a radical one. Some key facts here: 1 in 3 men think that rape victims are deserving of it due to their behaviour, 75% of rapists at trial do not receive jail sentance and there is a still a huge pay divide between genders. I don't think it's correct to criticise radical feminists for getting angry when the patriarchal system is still in full swing. I'm a man and gosh, sometimes I really fucking hate the attitudes of males. But that's besides the point. I think rather than criticising feminism, you should perhaps broaden the point because you know, I don't much like men shouting at me about how I should live my life and that happens a lot; cf various religions etc. Then again, I do get cross when I've clashed with radical feminists who believe that because of my gender I can't grasp the key contexts. But really, feminism (for me) is about equality and not the displacement of one gender above the other, be it females above males or whatever.
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I think real feminists are more than what Mourdor was talking about. And maybe his post wasn't really about feminists, but about something else. The term feminist is very often misused.
Feminism is a serious theory, or better, a
corpus of theories, not a way to treat your husband like a fool, or complain because men won't let you park your car before they do. Many women are very confused about this, and simply think being feminist means females must be the first in everything, must benefit from a special status, especially when it comes to everyday's life. These women are usually the ones who are more conservative among all, and are usually the ones who can't realize when in fact they're being treated like inferior beings in more subtle ways, like it happens with the media. They like to think they have power, so they dress in a provocative way, use vulgarity as men do, pretend to obtain the best service in stores and when they go home they want their companions to wash dishes. But apart from that, they really have no idea about what being a woman is and what conquering the respect of the other sex as a woman means.