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Originally posted by HelloKitty22
I understand your reaction AEPiZX, but I just think your response is weird. I think the VAST majority of modern women are feminists, whether career or stay at home or somewhere in the middle. Rather than reject the feminist movement, why not embrace it? The reason feminism comes off seeming so extreme is that moderate feminist women have shrugged off the label. If you treat being a feminist as a bad thing or a sign that a woman is a hairy legged, militant, man-hater then how can we expect to attract manstream support and get things that women really need?
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And the reason moderate women HAVE shrugged off the label is they don't appreciate people like ADPiZXalum's friend who tell her she's NOT a feminist because she chooses to stay home with her kids. And those are the women proclaiming most loudly that they are feminists.
I don't think her response is "weird" at all. If the only women I knew personally who called themselves feminists acted in that manner and insisted they were what feminism was all about, I wouldn't want to call myself one either.