What are the most prominent schools of thought within feminism?

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What are the most prominent schools of thought within feminism?

spring onion? Ageist!

Ha ha! Not as spring as I once was - probably why I'm a scallion....

I'm celery and I demand you let me in the fruitbowl.

I'm identifying as a mushroom. All you fruit and vegetables people are excluding me :(

Anyone else thinking that this thread has actually become quite a good summary of the schools of thought (and concomitant complexities) of feminism?

For one thing, it's clear that men must eat their veggies.

^If he's content with a vegetable love which would certainly not suit me,
Why, what a most particularly pure young man this pure, young man must bel^

I mean. Think of the vitamins. (But only if the plant gives its full and enthusiastic consent of course.)

Bloody Mumsnet formatting, thou shalt check first...

TeiTetua Is that a reference to an Andrew Marvell poem?

All that talk of veggies somehow made me think of "vegetable love"--what if men treated edible plants as objects to lust after? A boon for women, or perhaps not.

It does show up in "To His Coy Mistress", though there it seems to mean a desire that grows slowly and naturally. But then (coincidentally, or more likely not) it appears in a Gilbert & Sullivan song I remembered a few lines of, where a man is genuinely, or just for show, seeming to be in love with plants, and that's where the quote came from.

I went and looked up the Marvell line and found an amusing explanation:
www.shmoop.com/to-his-coy-mistress/stanza-1-lines-1-20-summary.html

A good feminist analysis of that would be interesting.

Interesting thought, but spoilt by the hideous way in which the writer uses bullet points.