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Women's Rights
Any fellow feminists here? People tend to think of feminists as being with the hippies and New Age group but I think you don't have to be a liberal progressive person to hold feminist views. You can also be a conservative feminist.
The fact that human trafficking, female abuse (including FGM) and female slavery is still prevalent across the globe means that feminists haven't actually come as far as they think they have.
Women still have to justify their choices while men can do whatever they want. If you're a man and you happen to be single or you choose to not have children, it's completely normal but if you're a lady, good luck trying to explain what planet you come from 
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- tonnaree
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Re: Women's Rights
I'm sick of people using feminist as a dirty word. Feminisim is simply the belief that women desrve all the same rights and respects that men do. I am a feminist.
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- Harriet
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Re: Women's Rights
Me, too!
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And men can be feminists too. In fact, until they are... 
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Count me in. 
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- tonnaree
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Re: Women's Rights
Are we gonna burn our bras now? 
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- Harriet
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Our what? 
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- besleybean
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I'd give myself 2 black eyes with my huge melons...
But yes, I am a feminist in a supportive bra!
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besleybean wrote:
I'd give myself 2 black eyes with my huge melons...
But yes, I am a feminist in a supportive bra!
Gosh, bb!!!
This sticks with me now...
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- besleybean
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Well sadly I'm big all over!
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- tonnaree
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I'm big everywhere but there! Big behind, small boobs. I was robbed I tell ya!!
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- besleybean
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I'd put in a complaint, if I was you!
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I wish feminism didn't have to be a thing... but yes, I am one...
In fact I find feminism in a man so incredibly sexy...
But I'm not sure I'm an actual feminist, I believe that everyone matters no matter what gender or gender identity they have, what colour, sexuality, lifestyle etc... No one should be less or seen as less than anyone else.
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- tonnaree
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Re: Women's Rights
I wish feminism didn't have to be a thing... but yes, I am one...
In fact I find feminism in a man so incredibly sexy...
But I'm not sure I'm an actual feminist, I believe that everyone matters no matter what gender or gender identity they have, what colour, sexuality, lifestyle etc... No one should be less or seen as less than anyone else.
Then you are a Feminist honey. Don't be afraid of the word! xoxoxoxoxox
Our Ben is a Feminist. And don't we love him for it.
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- This Is The Phantom Lady
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Oh, I'm not afraid of the word, at all! And I'm happy to be one!
But I'm not just a feminist... what is that then, a humanist?
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- besleybean
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Yep.
I am into human rights.
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If feminism simply means that you believe that men and women should have equal rights then of course I'm a feminist. But to the actual schools of feminism, I agree with some more than others.
- tonnaree
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What parts of Feminism do you not agree with?
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"Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not".
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I ship it harder than Mrs. Hudson.
- Schmiezi
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Re: Women's Rights
Count me in as well - as long as I don't have to burn my bra. It was super expensive and makes it looks like I have a lot more that I really do.
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- besleybean
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Even after baby?!
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