Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.
It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and must have felt gratitude to the movement for the opportunities that the work we have done has afforded them.
Empowering women leads to a more inclusive growth of society and the nation.
What is feminism? We are just asking for equal opportunities, nothing beyond that. It doesn't mean that you cannot be pretty or you cannot cook or you can't do a whole lot of things. Feminism's got a bad rap; that's it.
What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness.
If feminism has receded in visibility and prestige, it is precisely because its vision of life's goals and rewards has become too narrow and elitist.
Feminism is an attack on social practices and habits of thought that keep women and men boxed into gender roles that are harmful.
Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.