It seems to me that modern feminism has no real qualms with women’s legal rights anymore. Their real target seems to be the mindset of men and even other women who don’t view the world through feminist goggles. Some extreme threads of feminism want to reverse the political power roles, as if men being in authoritarian positions were ever the problem (the authoritarian positions themselves were the problem. The terms female and despotic are not mutually exclusive.) How is this at all ‘women’s struggle for equal opportunity?’
But what I really don’t understand is feminists opposed to prostitution and pornography.
They claim that these industries are exploiting women. Granted, some girls are coerced into becoming prostitutes,(which, when you think about it is true for doctors, or any other profession.) but most aren’t, and surly legalization and legitimization of prostitution would be the solution to this.
The idea that pornography ‘eroticizes the domination, humiliation, and coercion of women, and reinforces sexual and cultural attitudes that are complicit in **** and sexual harassment’, while absurd and unfounded in its own right, is no reason to push for legislation to ban it. I don’t believe many of the anti-porn feminist actually believe this. I think they just want to outlaw behavior that they see as giving them, as women, a bad name. This collectivist type of thinking is laughable at best and despicable at worst. You are an individual before you are any ***.
The attempt to ban pornography and prostitution based on these pretenses is no less dishonest and reprehensible as people trying to pass laws against violent video games due to their alleged behavioral affects.
There is no real anti-porn or anti-prostitution movement, there is only an anti-freedom movement. Modern feminism is nearly the antithesis of the original brand of feminism, which pushed for equal rights and liberty. The label seems to have been ********* by disturbingly selfish women into what it is today. And they didn’t even have the decency to change feminism’s name to what they have made it; Fascism.
Thank you.
re:Micheal
You’d be surprised. But even if i hadn’t most *********** (in this country) chose to be ***********. What right has the government to tell them not to?
re:Lilyta
So, basically what your saying is that because these industries present situations that you wouldn’t subject yourself to, no one should be able to make a living doing them?
I could write a whole book on the horrors of coal mining and how damaging it is to the men that do it but does that mean we should outlaw coal mining?
re:Resurrected Yet Another Time
I gotta wonder if you even read my post.