Someone explain some things to me!

[neocopasetic]

 ---Because clearly I am too dumb to understand.

Why is Charlie Sheen being lauded as an awesome person right now? Like... I know it's the latest craze and everything, but I guess I'm just missing something. Because before all his silly stuff went down, he was just a douche on a god-awful TV show. What separates this dude from, say, Lindsay Lohan?

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[showyoursmile]

Sexist double-standards are so aggravating. :/ And the fact that "feminist" is used as an insult in a lot of cases is also aggravating, for that matter. I understand your frustration, bb, even if I don't have much of an answer beyond Sexist World Is Sexist.

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[neocopasetic]

The fact that any woman would say they're not a feminist it ridiculous, if you ask me... but I'll save that rant for another day xD;;;

But yeah. It's upsetting that the world still isn't over this shit :S

[showyoursmile]

I agree entirely. People have this image of a feminist as a woman who hates men and thinks women should be considered ~superior~, but seriously, that is not what feminism is about, considering that's sexism in the other direction. This is kind of on a tangent, but I worked with a nonprofit/heard speakers from others this past summer, and there was this guy who runs a group for men who fight against domestic violence against both woman and men, and he talked about how they sometimes come across women who treat them like they're just in the way because, being men, they couldn't possibly actually care about women's well-being or consider it a human issue rather than a women's issue, and how he was so grateful for the times when they were able to work together WITH women to strive towards equality (the focus was domestic violence, but feminism came up quite a bit, as could be expected) and safety. Buuut I am kind of getting into a ramble, so I should stop, too. ^^;

Maybe someday. :/

[neocopasetic]

Exactly!!! Feminism is NOT reverse sexism. It's respecting women as equals. If anyone cannot agree with that, then they should embarrassed. I've had to explain it several times, but of course I get eye-rolls and bra-burning jokes. Ugh.

[showyoursmile]

(By the way, please excuse my grammar abuse up there, lol. I got a bit too carried away.<) Yeah, what's a discussion about feminism without some bra-burning jokes, after all? :| I was lucky to go to a liberal arts university where at least most people were more open-minded than the average Texan/American/etc. (there was one guy who made some super sexist remark on Facebook, and the backlash was so bad that I actually think he might have transferred >>), but outside that bubble, there is a lot of ignorance. It's not a difficult concept to understand, you know, equality for all humans (race, gender, sexuality, whathaveyou), but some people just have trouble with it, and it's sadly the extreme images that stick in their minds.