Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a woman and feminazi is the same to me as soup nazi or grammar nazi. The only women who get called feminazi or those who try and impose their views on others.

I don't think feminazi is used when trying to put a woman in her place at all or argue against injustice. It is when they go overboard.

Then again I don't consider myself a feminist myself as I don't see myself as a victim /martyr. I don't see the world through oppression glasses and I don't dislike or try and minimize or vilify men.

Do you really not believe that women do not deserve the same respect and opportunities afforded to men?

Absolutely I do - that does not make me a feminist. I believe in human rights - that every person deserves to be treated with respect and to be given opportunists regardless of gender. I do appreciate the efforts that the early feminists made to equalize our rights. Feminism today bears little resemblance to the early fight for equality. Read these boards - there is a huge double standard. Pretty much every relationships thread started by a man ends up in well it is your fault because you don't do enough for the woman, children and house. Every relationship thread started by a woman turns into the blame for all the relationship woes placed on the man and the woman is such a hero for putting up with a man. This similar thread is seen over and over here. I believe that women are far from perfect, can be equally as manipulative and controlling as men, and are every bit as responsible for their own actions as a man. I do not equalize women by belittling or putting down men or by portraying them as bumbling fools. I believe everyone - including men - deserves to be treated with respect and that disqualifies me from ever calling myself a feminist.

That's EXACTLY what feminists believe. That's pretty much the definition of feminism. Do you really not know that?

Anonymous wrote:I don't want to live in a country where we ban words. Yeah, there are people that I think are just crazy. There ARE people who I want to reserve the right to use the strongest of words for.

Words are for proving points. Words are for causing reactions....you don't read books to get the same old bland responses, or maybe you do. I hope that the user of "feminazi" is doing it either 1) to prove a point or 2) to be tounge in cheak.

Anonymous wrote:Flame away on my post but I'm going to say it anyways. I can't stand the women who call themselves feminists but then freak out when their DH calls them a bitch after she calls him an asshole. As another poster pointed out, half the women I know who consider themselves feminists use the biggest double standard I've ever seen. If I call my DH an asshole, I really don't care if he calls me a bitch. We both used words we shouldn't have used. I don't call him abusive because that would make me abusive in an equal world right? So many of these threads are "I want to cheat on my DH" and the people write back, yeah your DH is a jerk, he doesn't help aroudn the house enough etc etc. Whenever there is a thread about a guy wanting to cheat on his wife, he's attacked. Yeah...really treated equally huh? I just feel like there are people who claim to be feminists but only want the equal rights that would benefit them, but also want to keep the inequality that makes them seen as someone who is fragile and needs to be treated delicately. Maybe I just have "poser femininist" friends, but it drives me insane.

I also feel, that unfortunately, the views on feminism have been tainted by people who take it to the extreme. I'm all for being able to feed my baby when he's hungry, but I also understand that if I pop my boob out in a crowded mall, some people are going to be uncomfortable. Which is why I try to find a more private place. But, I think the people who freak the eff out over someone being uncomfortable with it and then causing a huge commotion, have tainted what feminism is. Just my two cents

Anonymous wrote:Flame away on my post but I'm going to say it anyways. I can't stand the women who call themselves feminists but then freak out when their DH calls them a bitch after she calls him an asshole. As another poster pointed out, half the women I know who consider themselves feminists use the biggest double standard I've ever seen. If I call my DH an asshole, I really don't care if he calls me a bitch. We both used words we shouldn't have used. I don't call him abusive because that would make me abusive in an equal world right? So many of these threads are "I want to cheat on my DH" and the people write back, yeah your DH is a jerk, he doesn't help aroudn the house enough etc etc. Whenever there is a thread about a guy wanting to cheat on his wife, he's attacked. Yeah...really treated equally huh? I just feel like there are people who claim to be feminists but only want the equal rights that would benefit them, but also want to keep the inequality that makes them seen as someone who is fragile and needs to be treated delicately. Maybe I just have "poser femininist" friends, but it drives me insane.

I also feel, that unfortunately, the views on feminism have been tainted by people who take it to the extreme. I'm all for being able to feed my baby when he's hungry, but I also understand that if I pop my boob out in a crowded mall, some people are going to be uncomfortable. Which is why I try to find a more private place. But, I think the people who freak the eff out over someone being uncomfortable with it and then causing a huge commotion, have tainted what feminism is. Just my two cents

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a woman and feminazi is the same to me as soup nazi or grammar nazi. The only women who get called feminazi or those who try and impose their views on others.

I don't think feminazi is used when trying to put a woman in her place at all or argue against injustice. It is when they go overboard.

Then again I don't consider myself a feminist myself as I don't see myself as a victim /martyr. I don't see the world through oppression glasses and I don't dislike or try and minimize or vilify men.

::headdesk::

It's amazing to me that (presumably) educated women don't know the first thing about feminism, but yet enjoy the benefits of feminism every day of their lives. Sad, really.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It comes up in every BFing thread.

Because it is the perfect description of the breastfeeding nurse-in nuts. I like the word because it describes them so well.