Quick Question/Survey

[hkellick]

I have a long set of thoughts regarding feminism based on an interesting site I mostly agree with that I found, thanks to chrissmari. I was talking with a couple people online and in real life about this, and I'm realizing that how I define feminism does not seem to agree with how others define it.
So I'm curious what you people out in LJ-land think.
I expect to post more about this soon, but for now... a poll.

[Poll #80464]

Comments

[trillain.livejournal.com]

Note that that's not how I feel it should be, necessarily, but how I find that people perceive it and practice it.

[tydaj.livejournal.com]

Women's empowerment? *pfft*

[alierak.livejournal.com]

Around here the proper term for an equality movement is "gender equity" -- note the lack of any mention of which gender, since it's assumed that all genders are supposed to be equal. Inherent in the word "feminism" is some kind of a gender bias, but surely it means different things to different people.

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

Feminism was originally defined by the movement's first leaders as the first choice above in your poll. As such, that is how I define feminism. The Feminine Mystique is a great book about feminism and conspiracy theories and about how things SHOULD go, as opposed to the mess they are now.