charliesmum | (no subject)

slammerkinbabe posted this article on her journal, and I started a comment, but then decided it would be better to rant in my own journal.

Okay, here's the thing about feminism. Men seem to think it means 'treat women like a man in a dress' but that isn't the case. I think feminism is all about having the choice. sixty-odd years ago a woman really didn't have a big choice. Some woman had careers, but it would have been perfectly acceptable to fire her if she got married. I worked with a woman who got married during the Great Depression, and they had to keep their marriage a secret because she had a good job and he didn't, and she would have lost her job had they known she was married. Today, fortunately, if a woman has talent in a position, she is, mostly, able to pursue that career, and won't have to give it up if she gets married or has children. The nice thing is, a woman can choose to give up her career to be a housewife, if she so desires. I really think all we wanted was a choice.

Then there's this paragraph:

The day men and women have the same level of power is the also the day when chivalry dies. Many women enjoy visiting bars and having men buy them drinks in exchange for a casual conversation. It seems that after all the work women put into getting ready for a night out, they won't compromise their ability to get free alcohol for the sake of self-independence.

I think women can be equal and still accept a drink if it is offered to her, and second, who says we go out to make 'causual conversation' with a guy. Maybe we just want to hang with our girlfriends and make fun of other people's outfits. You don't know.

The implication this boy is making is that we can't be girls and be feminists. Dude. being a feminist does not mean giving up everything feminine.

And anyway, real equality won't really happen until commercials featuring things like what to cook for dinner and which brand of detergent to use stars a man.

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It's people like this who spent the last election campaign in my country insulting the PM (see icon) for being...not pretty. The fact that most of the male party leaders look like kissing cousins to chimpanzees is, of course, completely beside the point. Women must be pretty to do any job, or they can't do it properly. Since she isn't pretty, she must be a lesbian, and her thirty-year marriage is a sham. The opposition leader's decision to commit adultery with and later marry his younger secretary is, on the other hand, an example of fine upstanding morals.

Fortunately, she's still the prime minister, and Don "I can't raise my voice to her during debates, she's a woman" Brash is still the Leader of the Opposition, with lots of knives at his back. Sometimes, the world is just.

Besides - who said a lesbian cabal running the country was a bad thing?