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| Book for social feminism |
Until about... 3 years ago I generally believed that feminists, were woman who sit around in hiking boots, who don’t wax or shave their legs or armpits, and hate men. After this phase I realised that feminism is actually down to the core, a lot less complicated and is just about woman having equal rights. Equal rights in education, establishments, politics, economic, and social rights.
However there are different types of feminists and some are fairly extreme.
Lesbian Feminism is a movement that believes in an emphasis on woman’s love for each other (obviously), community and ideas, ideas that lesbianism is a choice and a resistance, criticism on male superiority. Fairly laid back, I would imagine there is some controversy whether or not lesbianism is a choice or a resistance, as personally I didn’t decide to be hetrosexual one day. I have always been attracted to the opposite sex, I wasn’t gay but chose to be straight... Or are they saying that they are actually straight but have decided to be Lesbians because they just don’t enjoy or like men?
Radical Feminism our feminists who believe that woman have been oppressed by the social patriarchy and male supremacy. They are determined to over throw gender roles and want to try and restructure or society. They believe that the problem started with the patriarchy relationships. Whereas other feminist movements think believe that the cause of sexism and gender based relationships come from the legal systems, (I would imagine religion mainly) rather than just men being controlling.
Honestly though I find it very hard to comment or write much about feminism, not because I don’t support the movement (I do, I’m aware now that it’s not “woman who sit around in hiking boots, who don’t wax or shave their legs or armpits, and hate men”). But because I’m a white male, who has never been discriminated because of my race or gender. When I hear woman talk about how they get paid less in the 21st century (my mother does) or sometimes I get confused because some woman I know talk about being sexually objectified because what they are wearing, I again get confused or find it hard to believe, sometimes even doubt them. But thinking about it, how would I ever know what it feels like if no one has ever done it to me?
