However, I would hesitate to say this isn't feminism.
Heh... I wouldn't! I would absolutely say that if a person claims that all women everywhere are exactly as advantaged as men, and nothing further needs to be done, that person is not a feminist. That person is also, imo, deluded.
And I do think that the belief that "women are equal to men and deserve the same opportunities and access to power as men" is incompatible with "the belief that women basically have it OK, and that feminism is a matter of defending their existing rights rather than trying to promote further rights". If women deserve the same opportunities as men, and don't have them (and they don't), then clearly further rights must be sought.
I don't know whether Americans are more encouraged to fear than people of other countries, but it strikes me as likely.
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Date: 2006-04-01 06:43 am (UTC)Heh... I wouldn't! I would absolutely say that if a person claims that all women everywhere are exactly as advantaged as men, and nothing further needs to be done, that person is not a feminist. That person is also, imo, deluded.
And I do think that the belief that "women are equal to men and deserve the same opportunities and access to power as men" is incompatible with "the belief that women basically have it OK, and that feminism is a matter of defending their existing rights rather than trying to promote further rights". If women deserve the same opportunities as men, and don't have them (and they don't), then clearly further rights must be sought.
I don't know whether Americans are more encouraged to fear than people of other countries, but it strikes me as likely.