I kept my last name yet, like the vast majority of women, let my kids take my husband’s name. This should be a feminist issue
No. No, it isn’t. Really it isn’t.
There was a time when feminism was about equality of basic rights, such as, for example, voting. Certainly, I have always felt that the sexes should be take on merit as individuals, which, frankly, is the greatest equality – stand or fall by your own ability not your dangly bits or lack thereof. But we have gone way beyond that. The feminists of the 21st century are not fighting the fight of the suffragettes, they are seeking something altogether different. They want superiority for themselves and it is driven by a dark misandry, one which subjugates men and their expression as such. It is no better than the very thing their movement was originally set up to conquer.
So, no, the naming of children is not a feminist issue. Can we not leave the poor buggers out of your politics?
Or, is it as Julia is fond of reminding us, another first world problem?
I liked the comment:
“I am a man so clearly this is not something that has impacted me, but it occurs to me that you are unhappy that only 4% of children have the same last name as their mother’s father instead of their father!”
It can’t be long before we are all ‘chipped’ and referred to by number anyway.
As someone who was mildly active through the late 1960s and 1970s as a supporter of better equality laws and fairness within society, it saddens me to see what the “Wimmens” movement has morphed into. Back then, there were a lot of facets of society which were deeply unfair and biased and it was quite right that women of the day, and – let’s not forget – many men of the day, too, should demand greater fairness and the same rights and privileges for everyone. And – all credit for the more active (than me) people of those times – by and large, they got them. Quite right too.
I guess the problem now is one which we see exemplified today in so many areas, not just the Wimmens’ movements as they now are. Charities, pressure groups, even large public bodies like the NHS – having established themselves by fighting for, often, very worthy causes – become almost visibly panic-stricken at the prospect of actually achieving their aims, for with that achievement comes the cessation of their very raison d’etre. Thus we see ASH and their cohorts still whinging on about more restrictions and extensions to the smoking ban; we see charities like the NSPCC sticking their noses into areas which, even by the greatest stretch of the imagination, can’t really be classed as “cruelty;” we see the likes of CRUK making virtually no progress in terms of “research” (have we got a cure yet? No.) but doing a great trade in expensive TV advertising as to what wonderful work they’re doing (but still, of course, asking for more donations); we see the NHS, now, with so many of the common killers of their early days largely defeated, transforming itself into finger-wagging lifestyle lecturers rather than the helpers and healers they were originally designed to be. And who, in their right mind, would bother going on jolly wear-your-bra-outside-your-jumper midnight Moon Walks for Breast Cancer Research if anyone actually ever discovered a cure for the disease?
And the Wimmens’ movement? Well, that’s set to self-destruct, for the simple reason that the main proponents in its ranks (who are no longer the everyday “woman in the street,” by the way, whom they don’t represent by a long shot), by their constant shrieking demands and hysterical, self-obsessed, victim-style whining are, ironically, doing a grand job of proving all those old Male Chauvinist Pigs of yesteryear (I remember them so well!) absolutely right, simply by behaving exactly as those same MCPs predicted they would, all those years ago. Thanks a lot, sisterz!
“Charities, pressure groups, even large public bodies like the NHS – having established themselves by fighting for, often, very worthy causes – become almost visibly panic-stricken at the prospect of actually achieving their aims, for with that achievement comes the cessation of their very raison d’etre.”
Oh, this x 1000!
feminism is now a component of cultural marxism and persues the ends of that ideology.