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Originally Posted by maskedmelon
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The issue that I take with feminism in its present incarnation is that it shames femininity by insisting non-feminine traits are more praiseworthy than feminine ones. Its measure of successes is misguided. it assumes that if women enjoy equal treatment with men then they will and should share the same ambitions. feminism in its current form is a glorification of dominance, aggression and violence.
if you consider yourself a feminist in the traditional sense, welcome to the realm of modern thought. very few people disagree with you. it's liek declaring opposition to theft.
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Where do you get this from? Not the part about how being against traditional feminism is like being against theft (100% agree), but the parts about how modern feminism "shames femininity by insisting non-feminine traits are more praiseworthy than feminine ones" or that "feminism in its current form is a glorification of dominance, aggression and violence."
People seem to have a lot of crazy ideas about what feminism is, and I blame TV. There are a lot of people claiming a lot of things on TV, and the people who make TV showcase the people with the most extraordinary claims because it makes for better ratings ("sensationalism"). So if you watch only cable news and think the people Fox and CNN choose to represent feminism you could easily get a distorted view.
But if you look at actual feminist activism, and I mean the mainstream stuff (eg. Planned Parenthood supporters not the fringe weirdos who say crazy stuff like "all sex is rape"), I don't see any of what you're talking about. I was fairly involved in feminism at an extremely liberal college (basically the movie PCU was based on us and Berkeley). There was nothing about feminine traits being more praiseworthy (although there certainly was some "hey these male traits have had an oversized influence on our society for a long time, maybe we should value some of the more feminine traits that we haven't traditionally valued?"). And there was certainly
nothing about the "glorification of dominance, aggression and violence".