rattle_snack ([info]rattle_snack) wrote,
@ 2005-10-31 11:27:00
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Feminists
Feminism is irrelevant in this day and age. Not saying that it was always irrelevant i just think that it is now.

Equity is the new feminism.


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[info]sumthingweird
2005-10-31 01:35 am UTC (link)
Some facts for you:
Australian female full-time workers earn $150 a week less than males (which is about one-eighth of the total wage).
That's a huge discrepancy, and doesn't count the fact that more women are unemployed than men, just the women who choose to work full-time and men choosing to work full-time.
I only know a few men who agree to the burden millions of women have had to carry for thousands of years - to look after the children while the wife goes to work. This reflects inherent discrimination in our society.
Domestic violence and marital rape are at record highs.
Tens of thousands of women have no paid maternity leave, and this will of course increase once the government introduces their new IR laws, which directly attack women, giving them only 52 weeks of UNPAID maternity leave a year, with only 1 week paid leave at birth. It's as if we consider women baby machines who just pop out babies and head straight back to work, or we penalise them for having children.
Women are two and a half times more likely to live in poverty in their old age than men, and Pru Goward, HREOC's Sex Discrimination Commissioner claims that women in high positions are so few and far between "we could probably name them all".
Most of the unpaid work in Australia is women looking after their children. There is little-to-no social security as in most democracies to support families.
I quite often hear slurs against women in churches, about how they should consider themselves inferior to their husbands, in stark contrast to how Jesus treated women.
And the situation in most countries is far worse than in Australia - feminism has only scratched the surface.

If you truly believe that there is equity in Australia there should be no problem with having organisations like HREOC because they would just be maintaining the balance.
It is common to hear men saying these things, but you will not often hear women saying them because they know how much discrimination they face.
How many female MPs are there compared to men? How many female CEOs are there? How many men do you know who are as gracious as women and will sacrifice their career to stay home with their family? Do you know how difficult it is to get a divorce in some countries? How many women are trapped in violent marriages? Is it possible to say?

I could not disagree with you more on this issue.

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[info]rattle_snack
2005-10-31 04:17 am UTC (link)
I just think that having feminism AND equity is rather pointless as the feminist perspective is covered in that of equity, im not the only one that feels this way, I even know that a lot of women feel this even the editor of a well known womens magazine i have recently read.

Reading it gave me the courage to write this as I thought i must be a chauvenist to have this perspective against feminists, however i support equity 100%.

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