Actually, the feminist movement was completely successful. - Edit 2
Before modification by Tom at 12/01/2011 01:44:33 AM
The feminist movement achieved nearly everything it set out for itself. It was a movement to give women equal rights, and in civilized countries that is by and large a reality. Women can vote, hold any job they want and are very close to equal pay in most fields.
The feminist movement wasn't about FORCING women to be like men. It was about NOT forcing them to be homemakers if they decided that they didn't want to be. It was about not forcing them to choose between the professions of nurse and teacher as job alternatives.
Once women achieved that, the crazies went off in all sorts of spurious and irrelevant directions. Angela Dworkin, the ugliest woman to grace the planet, upset that no one (of either sex) would consent to have sex with her, declared all acts of sex to be rape in order to pretend she didn't want it anyway. Other absurdist feminists came up with all sorts of crazy theories of a similar type. However, no one really listens to them, cares, or takes them seriously. They really shouldn't be called feminists, anyway. They are academics in "gender studies" (sic) departments trying to justify their existence and their own psychoses.
The fact that a majority of women choose traditionally "feminine" roles doesn't mean that feminism failed, though. The fact that they're CHOOSING the roles, rather than having them forced upon them, is the key achievement of feminism.
The feminist movement wasn't about FORCING women to be like men. It was about NOT forcing them to be homemakers if they decided that they didn't want to be. It was about not forcing them to choose between the professions of nurse and teacher as job alternatives.
Once women achieved that, the crazies went off in all sorts of spurious and irrelevant directions. Angela Dworkin, the ugliest woman to grace the planet, upset that no one (of either sex) would consent to have sex with her, declared all acts of sex to be rape in order to pretend she didn't want it anyway. Other absurdist feminists came up with all sorts of crazy theories of a similar type. However, no one really listens to them, cares, or takes them seriously. They really shouldn't be called feminists, anyway. They are academics in "gender studies" (sic) departments trying to justify their existence and their own psychoses.
The fact that a majority of women choose traditionally "feminine" roles doesn't mean that feminism failed, though. The fact that they're CHOOSING the roles, rather than having them forced upon them, is the key achievement of feminism.