Discussion about Feminists who end up being sexist themself.

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So today I was on facebook and I saw one of my best friends commented on a video about Feminists who are sexist. My friend said she didn't understand why anyone would be so sexist and not realize it but she's ok with the feminists who are ok and NOT sexist. After much of the conversation I decided of posting this on here. I think that, in my personal opinion, guys and girls shouldn't fight about things at all. It's kind of pointless to get worked up about things to the point where you become sexist YOURSELF. At the same time I think girls SHOULD be treated more equally. There are things chicks don't get but guys do and I understand that. Equal also means DON'T HATE GUYS. I may be a girl but I hang out with guys more often and get along with them better. Certain ways to distinguish gender don't apply to me so basically I have a very neutral but logical opinion here. The only way gender actually MATTERS to me is when I date, I'm not bisexual. What are you guy's opinions?

Well, feminists that become sexist get too immersed in the whole thing, particularly the equality part. Men and women are NOT EQUAL. Until women can piss on trees, they aren't equal. Some women say women and men are equal but different. Again, great logic. By that rate, me and Oprah and equal but different. We are also separate but equal, right? Separate, different, sounds too similar to me. The fact is, men and women aren't as different as people seem to think (with this whole mars and venus crap) but there are differences, and that is going to lend itself to different treatment. You can't get your way all the time. Accept that and don't fight it, because it's a battle that can't be won. That's where the whole entitlement thing comes from, and it's annoying. Most entitlement princesses aren't even feminists. They just know how to play that card well.

The only problem I have with certain feminists (and I'm a feminist myself) is that some of them put down my choice to be a housewife. No one forced me to do this. I could work if I wanted to, and I have worked. I enjoy staying home and taking care of the house and my family. I don't feel like I should or I have to, I like doing it.

Many will try and invalidate my choice because they see it as setting women back. It's not. My husband doesn't tell me what to do by any means. We make decisions together, and I actually have more influence in them than he does because by mutual agreement I am better at those things.

I have seen them do the same things to women who work in strip clubs. They put down the woman's choice. I'm sure that there are some who are forced to work there by circumstance, and yes strip clubs are sexist, but it's great money and I wish I had the looks and coordination to do it because I would. Every stripper I've ever known has done that job by choice. There were a few biker chicks whose ole men told them to work there, but mostly it's women who want to make good money and don't have a lot of skills or time to learn them.

Feminism should embrace all choices women make, not just ones they approve of.

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I AM equal in the sense that I am a sentient human being whose life is worth as much as any other persons. My desires are as valid as anyone's. My feminism revolves around this radical notion. I don't know why people get so upset about me asserting that I am, in fact, not a second class of human, but people are crazy.