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Did you know that feminism's battle has been won?

33 replies

Cerseirys · 22/10/2015 12:19

Because it comes as news to me...
new.spectator.co.uk/2015/10/the-decline-of-feminism/

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Thefitfatty · 22/10/2015 12:47

I loved this:

"In April, an advert featuring a busty model appeared on the Tube, with the tagline: ‘Are you beach body ready?’ Within hours it had been defaced; within days 44,000 signatures had been appended to a petition demanding it be removed. Making sure women are covered up in public, so their bare flesh doesn’t offend anyone, is something you’d expect in Saudi Arabia, not here, where we should be free to dress as provocatively as we please."

I'm sorry darling, but you missed the point about a mile back. The whole thing had nothing to do with making women cover up. Hmm

RufusTheReindeer · 22/10/2015 12:47

I read the comments, didnt get far

I am honestly concerned about the mental health of at least two of those posters (only read about 10 posts)

And I'm being serious, really concerned

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 22/10/2015 12:43

This was my favourite bit:

'Last year, women constituted 55 per cent of those enrolling in courses in medicine and dentistry and 62 per cent of those enrolling in law. Business, banking and the professions may be dominated by men today but, judging by the rapidity of our ascent, this won’t last long.'

Sure it won't, sure it won't.... Because it's not like women are entering professions in large numbers that get eroded the higher up the ladder you get, is it?!

welshHairs · 22/10/2015 12:36

I read two comments and then gave up half way through a comment that seemed to think feminism was a marxist conspiracy with the aim of destroying white culture.

What a bollocks article. And I'm so sick of hearing that feminism is just a white middle class thing. I'm not middle class (although I am white).

Thefitfatty · 22/10/2015 12:30

Fuck, I read the comments

So did I. Sigh. My opinion on the human race has dropped substantially.

Thefitfatty · 22/10/2015 12:29
Confused

She's missed the point entirely on so many issues that I'm not sure where to begin.

NiNoKuni · 22/10/2015 12:28

Fuck, I read the comments

Florriesma · 22/10/2015 12:27

I wonder if the writer has had dc yet? Not because they validate her as a woman but because I think that is the point a lot of women realise they are living in a man's world.

I think it's easy to pretend all the big battles have been when when you are carefree and in your 20's. I find the older I get the more feminist issues there are.
I happen to think there are more feminist issues for women in their 20's now to be dealing with than there was when I was that age. However I can see how easy it would be for someone that age to be sucked into the advertising ideal

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