''The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.'' ~ Pat Robertson
Some people are incredibly stupid.
Unfortunately, this exaggeration is not totally absurd. It's the stereotypical view of feminism & the mould society thus expects feminists to fit into. Women's liberation movements have been increasingly prevalent and successful in the past 40 years, however, as liberated as women are nowadays, women are still painfully confined to roles expected of them. Similarly with the homosexual rights movements (or even just societal acceptance that there will be gay people in this world *gasp!*), society is increasingly accepting of homosexuals, bisexuals, and transgenders (among other determinations across the spectrum of gender and sexuality), yet it is only insofar as the non-heterosexual fits the societal concept of what is "gay." ABC's Modern Family has been forward-moving in it's depiction of an openly gay couple, yet note that in the series entire 1 1/2 season run, the gay couple has yet to be depicted even sharing a kiss. It's depressing to realize that as forward as we think we are as a society, we're still not truly accepting of anything outside of a male-dominated society's expected roles of women, gays, children, etc.
i think its going a little too far to say we as a society aren't accepting of women and gays, although we may not be a majority there is a growing number of tolerant people that accept homosexuality and the equal rights of women as a given, it takes time and so long as we, the rational, can make sure that people realize its not only important for women and gays to have equal rights but beneficial to all of us these numbers will continue to grow
ReplyDeletehomosexuality wasn't really even talked about 20 years ago, now there are actually people out of the closet in positions of power and in positions of cultural influence
we're going in the right direction i think but we still have a long way to go, as older generations and their inherent biases die off so will a lot of prejudices.
i definitely agree with that. i recognize i may be addressing extremes but i was a bit frustrated with the failure of some to accept
ReplyDeleteWhat prompted this post anyway? Discussions focusing on these kinds of topics are best supported by personal connections so that your ideas are relevant to your readers. Sometimes thinking "small" makes impacts that are big, if that makes any sense.
ReplyDeletehaha reading cloud 9 (play: caryl churchill) in british lit. this post wasn't focused at all i kinda just wrote..................
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