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Originally Posted by Vicky.
Beautiful 
Feminism to me is about liberating women from oppression tbh. I know many will scoff at that and say women are not oppressed but I disagree. Yes it is much better for female people in this country than it is elsewhere but not many people truly see men and women as equal, so many still see women as something thats just there for mens amusement. Also womens rights (that we currently have) are almost constantly under attack (a good recent example if this push to eliminate female only spaces and services and let people 'self identify' their sex), so those claiming feminism is no longer needed are wrong.
I do think part of womens oppression is based in nature though. We are the weaker sex, we will be dominated in certain areas of life and thats pretty impossible to prevent. But I feel a lot of the way a lot of men behave towards women is 'taught' and not nature. From the second it is announced 'its a girl/boy' the child is treat differently. This needs to stop really, else we will never get anywhere. I try to bring up my kids exactly the same but even though I am consciously trying to do this, I do slip up as the behaviour expected of males and females is so deeply ingrained...its hard to shift.
This went on a bit longer than I planned it too tbh, and possibly went offtopic too. Its hard to talk ab out feminism on here with so many people waiting to jump on you if you say the wrong thing. From all angles. |
I studied this a bit years ago in a nature nurture debate and babies are treated very differently from the moment they are born. There is no denying it. Parents don’t even know they are doing it. It’s so ingrained. The conditioning continues from then on in in our expectations of them, the toys we buy them etc. Men in particular have a tendency to treat their daughters differently especially when they reach the teenage years and it has always annoyed the heck out of me.
I had no end of falling-outs with my mother over this, she was more old-school, but always stuck to my guns and would not be told how to live my life. When I had children I only had boys and always felt quite protective of them but can’t imagine treating them any different from a daughter. I would have the same dreams and expectations for both and hope they did things their way.