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Are Feminists just pursuing their shadows? Or what they need is just new Light....
I have studied feminism and their actions and seen that they are only pursuing their own shadows. I found out that feminists don't fight for equal rights with men as they say, but they actually want to be "higher" than men. It is seen in their rebellious quest to retaliate and over-power men. I think what they need to understand is that "equality" does not exist! All that happens is that men and women are both given different roles to contribute to life...... The problem is WOMEN SEE THEIRS AS INFERIOR. All they need is a new light to see this. Or what do you think?
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Tugbiyele Henry
Morgan’s “Radical Feminism” and
the first chapter of Betty Friedan’s
book “The Feminine Mystique”
called the “The Problem That Has
No Name”.
I find that Robin Morgan believes in a
divided world in which men are the
oppressors and women are the
oppressed. Feminism is not a question
about rearranging the system in which
we relate to one another but about
fighting for changes in the way that
men relate with women. While the first
wave of feminism was largely about
gaining the state’s support, the second
wave of feminism, while redirecting the
focus to interpersonal relationships,
seems to be about gaining males’
awareness of and attention to the need
for gender equality. While she stresses
that women’s engagement is essential,
I find that the responsibility lies quite
extensively in the hands of men. This is
evidence for polar thinking. To Morgan
there appears to be men’s issues and
women’s issues. The adherence to a
binary is evident in her reflections on
the lack of solidarity amongst women.
Her protest against “[a]ll that fantastic
energy going to fight each other
instead of our oppression!” clearly tells
me that the advocacy for women’s
rights is women’s advocacy.
Furthermore it does not appear that
the attainment of gender equality is
something that is co-created as much
as it is realized through women, the
unequal or socially defined “Other”,
earning men’s, the equal and “Self’s”,
awareness and recognition of the (their,
women’s) issue’s urgency.
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