What I find highly amusing about this thread (and I, too, am guilty of it) is that we’ve spent five days and five pages arguing about “feminism” and no one has defined exactly what feminism is.
Of course, feminism means different things to different people. Arguing about “feminism” (in the general) is just about as useful as arguing about “Judaism,” “patriotism” or “conservatism/liberalism.” Until one defines exactly what it is one is arguing about, there is really little point (and I mentioned that in my first post in this thread).
So, let’s try to focus the discussion a bit more (but please note, Kasha, I’m not letting you off the hook for my last question).
For me, this is what “feminism” means.
Equal pay for equal work/experience/qualifications. (If I and a woman are doing identical jobs with identical experience, etc., we should be earning the same salary).
Equal opportunities in the workplace. (Women should not be excluded from professions [with certain possible well-defined exceptions] solely based on their gender.)
Equal educational opportunities. Women should not be excluded from colleges or any other educational opportunity.
Equal say in the political world. Women have the right to vote, hold office, petition officeholders for redress, etc.
Equal protection under the law. A woman is not the property of her husband or any other man. She is entitled to the same rights/privileges that men are entitled to.
The Wolf