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Feminism, is Bollocks Really

114 replies

TrollinaTrollpants · 13/12/2010 12:08

Isn't it?

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TiggyD · 13/12/2010 16:18

If women can wear trousers nowadays, men should be able to wear dresses. And take ages to get ready to go out, and constantly change our minds, and...

...and...

...and...

...and I shouldn't have to tell you what else. You should just know. No clues!

GraceAwayInAManger · 13/12/2010 16:32

Grin TD. Yeah, add "Men must be able to anticipate the needs of others" to my manifesto. I'm not allowing dresses, since you already can wear them.

MadamDeathstare · 13/12/2010 16:49

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sethstarkaddersmum · 13/12/2010 17:08

I don't have a problem with the men adding dresses to their manifesto. They are the group that wants liberating, after all. It is probably just a bit hard for us privileged dress-wearers to see the very real barriers which prevent them dress-wearing. We should not mock.

Truckulent · 13/12/2010 17:35

Wouldn't it be hard to stand up and go to the toilet in a dress?

This would mean more cubicles in men's public toilets and so end the inequality of queues of women waiting to go at concerts, as men breeze past happy in their patriarchal right of standing up to pee. I'll put it in our (my) menism manifesto.

Number 1 Men sit down for equality!

TheBrandyButterflyEffect · 13/12/2010 17:45

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MerrilyDefective · 13/12/2010 19:20

If Islam is far from the worst religion for women,which then do you think is worse?

petelly · 13/12/2010 19:28

MD

I don't think it's a competition but I'd rather be an Indonesian Muslim than a Coptic Christian when it comes to women's rights. How do you differentiate between religion and culture?

MerrilyDefective · 13/12/2010 19:33

Dunno,just asking after TheBrandy's comment.

scottishmummy · 13/12/2010 19:51

feminism is a legitimate ideological belief.and we have all benefited from it.the fact someone fought the good fight for
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equality
political and social agitation

MrManager · 13/12/2010 20:14

scottishmummy it's more an attitude than a belief, I'd say. You can be a feminist Marxist, a feminist libertarian, a feminist conservative (not sure about that one), etc. 'Feminist' doesn't have to define that person's entire belief system.

sethstarkaddersmum · 13/12/2010 20:16

eh? but neither do many other beliefs. that doesn't make it an 'attitude'.

MrManager · 13/12/2010 20:17

I meant it's more of an adjective than a noun, that's a better way of putting it.

sethstarkaddersmum · 13/12/2010 20:21

but I know people who would call themselves Marxist feminists, liberal feminists and free-market feminists. And of course, radical feminists. It is definitely a noun Grin

sethstarkaddersmum · 13/12/2010 20:22

and Christian feminists and Muslim feminists, while we're at it.

scottishmummy · 13/12/2010 20:25

yes but attitudes and beliefs impact upon behaviour.im nor especially seeking the definitive definition of what is feminism.as arguably all beliefs are shaped by social constructs

and im not so bothered about the minutiae of who/what defines feminism

Mumcentreplus · 13/12/2010 20:29

Feminism means don't take the piss out of me because I have a vagina...

scottishmummy · 13/12/2010 20:30

even if it can play tunes?surely not

MrManager · 13/12/2010 20:31

Brings a whole new angle to 'wetting your whistle'.

Mumcentreplus · 13/12/2010 20:33
Grin
scottishmummy · 13/12/2010 20:35

any ideology is up for debate and a poke.no belief system should be sacrosanct

scottishmummy · 13/12/2010 20:36

is it whet whistle or wet (as in damp) whistle

Mumcentreplus · 13/12/2010 20:38

Well yes scottish everything and everyone is open to debate..although in some cases even debate is debatable Wink

scottishmummy · 13/12/2010 20:39

correctamundo

DioneTheDiabolist · 13/12/2010 20:50

Nah, it was really good until men realised that they could use it to manipulate women into earning and shagging them without marriage, as well as bearing/bringing up children and keeping the house.

It will be good again. We will make it so.

Men should wear dresses and skirts and whatever else they feel comfortable in.

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