"I myself have never know what feminism is, all I know is that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat"
~ Rebecca West
Today I would like to talk about something that really ruffles my feathers and as you may have guessed, it's feminism. This post is a partial response to this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIdB4wS4MVU
Long story short this girl ^ believes that feminism should be taught in schools or at least woven into the curriculum. I don't know about all of you but I firmly believe that feminism is a belief that should be explored by an individual, schools don't teach people to be fascists or communists so why should they teach people to be feminists. People's beliefs are a personal thing that should be explored and discovered by the individual, children should not be branded feminists in the same way they should not be branded with a religion.
People often complain that, school does not teach enough about influential things women have done, well once again i don't know about you all maybe I went to some special unique schools but I have been to catholic, Protestant, co-ed, same-sex, primary and secondary schools and at all of them I was taught about influential women in history. I was taught about Joan of Arc as well as Alexander the Great, Marie Curie and Thomas Edison. Feminists complain that not enough important women are acknowledged in school for their achievements but to be perfectly honest there are not many significant women to recognise. Women were not commonly, play writes, leaders of armies, religious figures, and these are the people that we highlight in history, but if you look where there was a woman that stands out like, Joan of Arc, Elizabeth I, or Penelope (wife of Odysseus), she gets more than her share of recogniton.
Another point that many feminists get riled over is women in politics. In Australia as well as Britain and I'm sure other places, Member of Parliament are elected. As in chosen by the people, women run for these positions and sometimes they get them and sometimes they don't. To say that we need more women in Parliament is great, yes I am sure we do. How is it you propose to achieve that? Do you intend to go against the law and the people and appoint these women? The people chose the person they wish to represent their ideals and morals. If a woman does not hold those then she will not be elected, it's not because she is a woman. If you have read some of my other posts you will know that I am not a fan of Thatcher and her ideas but she had a massive following of people that supported her ideas, it wasn't because she was a woman.
Being a woman before now was a disadvantage but not anymore. There is no place for feminists!
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