Stereotypes Disagree With Modern Feminism

Feminism is a word that evoke strong emotions within all those that hear it, particularly among women. Many women feel that current Feminist activists are speaking for all women broadly, and that all women should share those same values and belief. Many women are fighting back against this by becoming anti-feminists and publicly advertising the reasons why they disagree with modern feminist discourse. It is ironic that freethinking individualism is a base belief of feminism and yet there are many views and beliefs within feminism that are very unpopular and even shunned within the feminist community or that all women should fall in line and vote for a particular person based solely on gender, not on ideas.

On December 14, 2015 a young lady

The young lady was holding a handwritten sign that identifies four areas in which she disagrees with modern feminism 1) “it no longer stands for equality!”, 2) “God gave us different skills, this is not male oppression!”, 3) “I don’t need a ‘a helping hand’ to succeed!” and, 4) “a man holding a door open is not a ’misogynist pig’, he is a gentleman!” This postmodern-academic-feminism view (Grey & Boddy, 2010) spoke to me because I share similar thoughts on these particular subjects. While many areas of inequity exist within the world, in America the overreaching discourse of modern radical feminism has disenfranchised women causing sharp divides in opinion rather than unity among women, this divide is easily characterized in the article A Message to My Fellow Voters: Let Us Make Some

History of Which to be Proud.

Leora Lihach (2016) is the author of this article in which she asserts Hillary Clinton is the best candidate for president based on first the fact that she is a woman; as is identified by the title of the article. Second, her politics are acceptable to those espousing liberal policies. Third,

America has never had a female president. While the author states that she is the best person

Secondly, the author and I obviously have very different views politically, I find it hard to believe that anybody would be voted for based on two issues alone; when deciding on who to vote for I have a much longer list of issues that I find important when trying to choose new leadership.The author does note she is not voting for this candidate based solely on the fact that she is a woman but she is “the right woman” (Lihach, 2016). The author notes Hillary’s qualifications as an advocate for oppressed groups and the empowerment of those groups, she still has a very narrow argument for what makes Hillary the “right woman” for president. This view is consistent with liberal-equal opportunity- feminism. In the beginning there was another woman in the presidential race who was unable to gain traction for her political platform. While women are gaining traction in the political arena those without the right politics are still finding it hard to break through to the next level.

While I do feel that it is true that feminism is an individual definition for each person, the feminist movement is judged by a societal definition that evokes pictures of radical, bra