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Originally posted by AGDee
By the definition of feminism that I've always been taught (equal rights for women, equal pay for equal work, etc), we definitely are feminist groups. We groom women to have leadership skills. We teach time management. We stress academic success and are focusing more and more on future career success. Perhaps this isn't the focus of some NPCs, but I know that Alpha Gamma Delta has been very focused on leadership and even started a new Leadership Institute to help women develop leadership skills through out life, not just as a collegian.
I'm not sure how sex toys fit in with feminism... I see feminism as empowering women to help them realize that they can accomplish anything they put their minds to, whether that's as a corporate exec or a domestic engineer.
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I must have been taught a different form of feminism. I actually was attacked by it on several occassions both in high school and undergraduate school.
The feminists that attacked me were separatists who claimed men were unneeded in society and that human life would be best without them. They also stated that since all hierarchy in society was created by men, then the hierarchy should be destroyed and nothing ever created to resemble it. This included Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Judaism, etc. as far as religion, and democracy, monarchy, parliamentarianism, etc. The list goes on.
I guess that's what I get for talking to "womyn" majoring in "womym's studies".