22 Mar 2011
What does feminism mean?
Annie Lennox hosted a debate on the meaning of the word.
There's an interesting article here that I've been meaning to link to since International Women's Day - a discussion on feminism.
It's galling to see, really, how far and how not-far we've come in 100 years. Young women's seeming obsession with WAGishness - who seem to me to be a bunch of airhead, false-titted doormats for the most part who are willing to put up with the most appalling behaviour from men, including rape and beatings, in exchange for cash - is possibly the most depressing, along with the patriarchally browbeaten silly tart who happily says: "I'm not a feminist, but...."
Not a feminist? Then don't have the vote. Don't have the right to custody of your own children. Don't have the right to contraception, the right to work, the right to keep your own earnings from your own labour, the right to not be bought and sold or killed by your brothers, husbands and fathers. The right to be treated like a human being and not an animal has been hard fought for by feminists throughout history, and anyone who isn't grateful to them is a fool. And above all, we should be grateful to live in the West, where a woman's life is not, as ours was just 100 years ago, ruled entirely by biology, and where education and opportunity create a life worth living.









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