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PsychiatricEnigma · Jun 10, 2012, 11:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Leed

I agree with you for the most part. I'm no feminist, really. I DO believe that women should get paid the same wage as men for doing the SAME job -- as long as they don't have to ask the men to help them lift heavy objects, etc. They have to do the SAME job!!!

But darn it, I'd love to be able to run around town in bib-overalls, without doing my hair, and wear an old T-shirt and not have all the women in town gossiping about how I must be a skank or some nasty HO or hillbilly who doesn't feed her kids. Who wants to dress up to just get a loaf of bread??

Sure is a double standard, isn't there? They don't talk about men like that.

Thanks for your post, not that this is aimed at you (because I don't know your exact beliefs), but your sentence there has highlighted another thing which kind of bothers me re: feminism. I see a lot of people (both male and female) who will say things like "well I am no feminist, but I support equal rights between men and women" when they are actually, by Dictionary definition, the same thing, just because of the negative connotations I highlighted in my post about feminists being all radical, lesbian, man-hating lunatics who burn their bras and throw acid in the face of men or something and seek to oppress men, when it's simply not the case.

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fem·i·nist [fem-uh-nist] Show IPA
adjective Sometimes, fem·i·nis·tic .
1.
advocating social, political, legal, and economic rights for women equal to those of men.
noun
2.
an advocate of such rights.

But there is a problem with some women who don't help themselves I agree, by not doing their fair share. I just think men should stop taking on a womans load, though as well.