That's interesting... And what have you learned during your time in this thread, particularly from the feminists here?
So I am curious gour, what a successful discussion on feminism would look like. I think the point of a discussion thread would be to air out points of view, without prejudgement on the correctness of that point of view..
I believe men are being discriminated against in hiring practice, as are older persons, people of color, and women. I have witnessed it often enough..
As for a feminists movement. IMHO, there is a need for equal professional treatment of women, and a need to eliminate bosses pressuring employees for sexual favors.
However I think that organized women's rights groups have created a mythical lifestyle for women that entails being CEO and mother of five and sexxy wife at the same time. I have seen my sister's try to live that life to dissappointment.. Like men, women have to make lifestyle tradeoffs. Which sucks but is just the facts.. you wanna be CEO, your life is travel and 80 hour weeks, your decisions are crisp, your tactics are aggressive and you don't back down. I know women CEO'S and that's how they got there.
I think it should be ok to choose a stay at home gig, if you and your spouse are on the same page. I think it helps the kids and can stabilize the family. That could be the man or the woman.. But whoever's stays back, is making a huge sacrifice, depending on the working spouse to take care of them. So I think it should be financially painful for the working spouses to walk out.
At the same time it should be ok for a women to choose no children without being a bull dyke.. We have really screwed up perceptions of what aspirations are ok and not Ok, and we need to work on that..
I think boss creeps at work should be fired. Period end of story. But I also think the current environment is stressing out guys who work with young women. I think the glamour dolls at work will be shunned at some level for fear of drama. And women who flirt at work, are going to run into blowback in this whole thing, which will harm progression. I think women are used to using flirting to diffuse conflict, and that is not going to be a viable option.