Feminism

Woman with a guitar by Georges Braque, 1913.

On a personal level feminism can disrupt marriages, relatio[citation needed]nships, child-rearing, education and the workplace. The feminist ideology is particularly dominant in elite universities, many large corporations, and competitive women's team sports. Feminism wants to m[citation needed]ake men and women equal. It opposes any sort of bias agenst woman.. The feminist movement in the West evolved in the 1980s with the rise of so-called Post-Feminism (Third-wave feminism), which stresses that women have many rights that go unrecognized, often by women themselves, in everyday life, and in the American legal structure. Most members of the feminist movement support reproductive rights currently guaranteed by American law, including the legal right to abortion. This stance is opposed by many conservatives. Third-wave feminism has been highly influenced by postmodern thought, and is a more intellectual form of feminism. It fights against the systems that it sees as detrimental to women as a group, systems designed to keep women in traditional roles, in contrastith sewave feminism, which fought foral rights and pa[citation needed]ith men in a fight against the traditional status of women as second class citizens. Another distinction made from secon[citation needed]d-wave feminism is the claimed recognition of the struggles faced by women who are minorities, disabled, immigrants, etc. (intersection theory), as most second-wave feminists focused only on white suburban middle-class able-bodied women. Se[citation needed]cond-wave feminism, however, was not always a good thing, as it pushed for abortion.

One of the major features of feminism prior to the 1990s was ocitation needed]pposition to women being treated as sex objects. However, some feminists today support women being sex objects, viewing it as a means of empowerment over the traditional Judeo-Christian family structure and conservative values. While there is a push for sex-positive feminism (seen in works like The Vagina Monologues), it is not necessarily a push for the objectification of women. Largely, feminists fight against this objectificaticitation needed]on of women. The opposite of sex-positive is sex-negative, which is predominately used as a snarl word to label criticizers of the porn industry. Ultimately, however, it continues on the same promotion of liberalism and anti-Christian values, as feminists today treat Islam's cruel treatment of women as a matter of "personal choice". Similarly, the National Organization for Women proceeded st the likes of [[]], the founder of the infamous porn rag Playboy, as a "defender of women."

During the administratioBill]], feminism made a partial resurgence, although feminist leadership was criticized by people such as Christina Odone and Candice E. Jackson for largely failing to criticize President Clinton's sexist behavior toward female employees as both Arkansas Governor and U.S. President.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a staunch advocate of civil rights and non-violence said, "When a mother has to work she does violence to motherhood by depriving her children of her loving guidance and protection."

Larrey Anderson, philosopher, writer and submissions editor for American Thinker, links feminism to Marxism, and concludes, "Feminism by grounding itself in the philosophy of Hegel and Marx, is condemning women to a new servitude: slavery to the State."

Critique

Christine Hoff Sommers wrote:

... The problem with is not that it has fostered achievemen[citation needed]t for women. Rather it is feminism's attempts to demean the roles and achievements of men and "feminize" boys that are problematic. [2]

Feminism and reason

See also: Liberals and reason

"Our culture, including all that we are taught in schools and universities, is so infused with patriarchal thinking that it must be torn up root and branch if genuine change is to occur. Everything must go - even the allegedly universal disciplines of logic, mathematics and science, and the intellectual values of objectivity, clarity and precision on which the former depend." — Daphne Patai and Noretta Koertge, Professing Feminism: Cautionary Tales from the Strange World of Women’s Studies, (New York Basic Books, 1994), p.116 [3]

Feminists in the Swedish government on Valentine's Day, February 14, 2017 were urged by the Iranian women's right activist Masih Alinejad “to stand for their own dignity” and to refuse to wear the compulsory hijab while visiting Iran. The pleas were ignored. The Jihad Watch website reported,

Cultural Marxism

The Feminist movement is part of the Cultural Marxist attack on the family. Studies have shown that

• 63 percent of youth suicides take place in fatherless homes.
• 90 percent of all homeless youth and runaways are from f[citation needed]atherless homes, which is a whopping 32 times the national average.
• 85 percent of all children with behavior issues come from fatherless homes, 20 times the national average.
• 80 percent of rapists with established anger issues come from fatherless homes, 14 times the national average.
• 71 percent of all high school dropouts come from fatherless homes, nine times the national average.
• 70 percent of those in state-oper[citation needed]ated institutions come from fatherless homes, nine times the national average.
• 85 percent of all juveniles in prison come from single-parent households, 20 times the national average.[citation needed]
• 90 percent of adolescent repeat arson offenders are from fatherless homes.[citation needed]
• Fatherless children are nearly twice as likely to be victims of abuse or neglect.[citation needed]

Quotations

See Quotations about Feminism[citation needed]

== Atheist feminism ==[citation needed]

See also: Atheist feminism and Atheism and women's rights and Atheism and women

Annie Laurie Gaylor is an atheist feminist. She is co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation.[citation needed] Gaylor's husband, Dan Barker, who heads the organization along with her, is usually the person invited to speaking engagements, despite her longer tenure as the organization's leader and her many books on atheism.

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Surveys throughout the world and other data indicate that women are less inclined to be atheists. See: Atheism and women

Atheist feminism is a type of feminism whose advocates are atheists. [citation needed]

Feminists who are theists often belon[citation needed]g to religious bodies which practice liberal theology. In addition, some feminists practice goddess worship. Since atheism rejects theism, atheistic feminism rejects/disbelieves in the existence of God or gods (see: Definition of atheism).[citation needed]

Atheism, women, men and atheist feminism

Since most atheists lean Left politically (see: Atheism and politics) most atheist women are feminists. However, this may not apply to atheist men or apply to a lesser degree, given that a significant majority of atheist are men and that the men's rights movement has many atheist men within it. Reddit is a popular place for atheists and a Reddit survey found that 94% of Men's Rights Movement supporters indicated that they had no religion (see also: Reddit atheism). YouTube's most popular atheist is TheAmazingAtheist who is a men's rights activist. Another popular YouTube atheist Thunderf00t is very critical of feminism within atheism (See also: Atheism plus).

Atheist movement, feminism and schism within atheism

Within the atheist movement post [[Ne[citation needed]w Atheism]] and the Elevatorgate controversy, there has been a lot of conflict between atheists concerning feminism. One of the results of the conflict was the new atheist Richard Dawkins losing a lot of public support and support among the irreligious (see: Richard Dawkins' loss of influence).

Atheist feminism and its v[citation needed]iew of religion

See: Atheist feminism and religion

Femen

See also: Femen and [[Athe[citation needed]ist feminism]] and Atheism and women

Femen is a Ukrainian radical feminist activist group which i[citation needed]s now based in Paris. According to the Washington Post, "Femen’s members consider [citation needed]atheism to be a fundamental tenet of the group’s ideology."

Femen engages in topless publicity stunts/protests. Femen was one of the first radical feminist organizations to gain transnational media publicity.

Christianity and women[citation needed]'s rights

See: Christianity and women's rights

See also

• Anti-Feminism[citation needed]
• Me Too Movement[citation needed]
• Essay:Conservative Women Vs. Feminism[citation needed]
• Feminism and housewives[citation needed]
• Feminist style[citation needed]
• Gender equality[citation needed]
• Gender police[citation needed]
• Feminists for Life[citation needed]
• Feminism and reason[citation needed]
• Feminist hypocrisy[citation needed]
• Battered woman syndrome[citation needed]
• Communism and feminism[citation needed]
• Feminist myths[citation needed]
• Feminist nitpicking[citation needed]
• [[Feminist quotes about Richard Dawki[citation needed]ns]]
• Liberal totalitarianism[citation needed]
• The personal is political[citation needed]
• Misandry[citation needed]
• Erica Jong[citation needed]

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References

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