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Reading The Feminine Mystique for the first time, I just realized something.
Feminism is not about womyn power, or the glorious sisterhood of women, or the right of women to be astronauts or physicists or to rule over men. It may be at least on the surface supporting some of those things, but it's not about them.
Feminism is about the right to choose, for everyone, men and women. It's the right of a woman to choose whether or not to be a housewife, an astronaut, a horse trainer or soldier or seamstress. It's the right of a man to choose what sort of woman he marries, when he marries and why. It's the right of every human being to have that choice and to make it without fear of pressure, prejudice or pain.
That's what feminism is about. And it won't really have the effect that we want and need until everyone--everyone--realizes that.
Feminism is not about womyn power, or the glorious sisterhood of women, or the right of women to be astronauts or physicists or to rule over men. It may be at least on the surface supporting some of those things, but it's not about them.
Feminism is about the right to choose, for everyone, men and women. It's the right of a woman to choose whether or not to be a housewife, an astronaut, a horse trainer or soldier or seamstress. It's the right of a man to choose what sort of woman he marries, when he marries and why. It's the right of every human being to have that choice and to make it without fear of pressure, prejudice or pain.
That's what feminism is about. And it won't really have the effect that we want and need until everyone--everyone--realizes that.