What do women want?

[sabrarosa]

This question has been around since time immemorial though perhaps Chaucer's Wife of Bath came closest to answering it when she posited that what we want is control. Still, one of the media' favorite subject matters is the lifestyle of American women. More specifically, they love to run stories backed by flimsy data about things like women

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[amok_about_sex]

Okay, then save me a place next to you, sweets. And I'll bring us a cuppa joe to drink where ever we are standing.
I get tired of that "I'm not a feminist..." dribble, too. Makes me want to kill somebody. Then pick them up and do it again...

[sabrarosa]

*L* Exactly my feeling.

[cain_iii]

**humming battle hymn of the republic**

Right on, sista! You tell `em! I like to call myself a feminist (because I genuinely believe in equality for women) in addition to calling myself more egalatarian. But, I have been confused by the negative connotations associated with women being feminist. Do they think that you have to hate men and be a lesbian to be a feminist? **shrugs**

On the other hand, my feminism was recently called into question by an ex-gf that is pursuing a graduate degree in women's studies because I do not completely swallow every line of feminist dogma, ask pertinent questions that her feminists friends cannot answer, and don't turn every single situation into a symbol of the patriarchy. Guess some people believe that you have to have blind faith and vehehment dogma to be a feminist. Funny, I thought you just had to support the idea that women are equivalent to men (even though they get to have babies...jealous....).

[sabrarosa]

Yeah, it's acommon misperception that Feminism and feminists are this cohesive collective. The people and the movement are as varied as any other group of people and you'd think that feminists of all people would know better than to adhere to dogma. Hell not even the Catholic Church is always in agreement and they're all about dogma!

As for me, I prefer catma. *G*

[playgirl]

When a frail, married anti-feminist woman becomes totally intolerable is when she dabs at her nose with a pink lacy hanky and expresses total shock because a girl chooses to remain single.

Thanks for expressing yourself, as I never could, on this topic!

[sabrarosa]

I hate when women do that to eachother. It's so passive-agressive and stupid.

[zombie_a_go_go]

Aww shucks, Marie! Don't ya know that feminism encourages women to leave their husbands and practice witchcraft! ;)

[sabrarosa]

Isn't that the point? *L*

[donchep]

I support you 100% and am glad you posted this. I always noticed that the worst enemy for the cause of equality for all women were often women themselves. To them Feminist is one of those PC terms only a step below women calling themselves Gyno-Americans(which would be funny if it were ever used with any kind of seriousness).

[sabrarosa]

*LOL* I am SO using that one! I can even be a Gyno-Hispanic!