hink of it all - of the life that is! Study your friends and foes!
Study the past! And answer this: "Are these times better than those?" The life-long quarrel, the paltry spite, the sting of your poisoned pride! No matter who fell it were better to fight as they did when the world was wide.
Feminism: in danger of becoming absolutist
"Yet this is the frustrating thing about the F-word today: so much of the feminist debate still assumes that women are powerless. If a man and a woman are in a relationship, then he is in control. If a woman is in a workplace, then she is a target for harassment. If a woman wants a career and children, then she is destined for a life of doing the "double shift". Obviously, you cannot trust men to step up to the plate.For young women of my generation, the brand of feminism which says that women are disempowered and harassed just doesn't have much resemblance to real life. A quick scan of my friends and colleagues renders the idea that we are all dominated and subordinated by our partners and husbands laughable.
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But feminism focuses on these facts and says we have not gone far enough. It says that we are still victims, and we will be until women work - and earn - as much as men. We will be victims until every husband does the dishes exactly 50 per cent of the time. And this is where feminism is getting it wrong.
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We need a new feminism that does not assume that women are victims and does not try to pigeonhole us into one homogenous group. It does not tell us to stay at home, or get to work. It does not focus on workforce participation, or the gender wage-gap, or the average number of hours spent doing housework. The new feminism is about choice."
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One giant and endless battle between the sexes will grant neither males nor females dignity. Demanding that men and women live the exact same, carbon-copied lives simply fuels pointless conflict.
'Equality absolutism' is destructive and deluded: people are simply not all the same.
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