Feminist Trends: “Are You Speaking To Me, Momma?”

Della said:
Verisure, I've been posting on message boards, dozens of different ones since 1999, and you're the first fellow poster I've seen who is under the impression that if he start's a thread he owns it.
Only the forum moderators can tell us what we can and cannot post. You are not "the host" of the thread. You can suggest a subject matter and make an opening post, but after that you no longer have control, it's just not your baby anymore.
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Very cool head shown here! :)
 

Della said:
Very eryll it's been interesting, only I probably shouldn't be reading it until my blood pressure pills get here in the mail. In my opinion it would have been a much better thread if you had titled it "Cell phone addiction" and left off everything about feminists. I've encountered you on other threads and enjoy your input, I just think you started this one off too strong and revealed a real animosity to what you call feminists. Many of us here consider ourselves feminists so we felt pretty insulted. Still, I have a feeling our definitions of that term are different.
Do you know some obnoxious woman who hates men, neglects her children, and calls herself a feminist? Just keep in mind that we didn't hire her to represent us.
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Very logical thinking, and calm enough thinking here, (forgive those of us without this level of moral strength!). :)
 

Verisure said:
Well, you can't turn down someone else's volume. Each has to do that for him/herself. If they don't then you have to either put up with it or turn them off. So, "solution"?
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Solution?
Well... With all due respect, the OP shouldn't generalize or stereotype people because of one moron's behavior.
And the responders shouldn't feel personally offended if a member of their group is offended.
 
CAKCy said:
Well... my bad and I apologize. But when things started getting out of control I felt I had to jump in... :)
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That is appreciated but with all due respect, perhaps you ought to have jumped in much earlier to remind everyone that the OP is not based upon one moron's behaviour.
 
There are a lot of mothers (and fathers) who seem to have no sense at all when it comes to caring for their children. My husband and I were on the beach one day and it was getting to be the time when the surf picks up. A lesbian couple was sitting in the sand kissing, hugging and generally not paying attention to the little boy in their care who had ventured too far out in the water. Finally my husband yelled to them to get the little boy.
I've seen a mother and different instance, a father cursing their toddlers out! I wasn't close enough to the man but I said something to the young woman. She got snarky about it but I told her to wait until her son talks to her like that one day. The child was in an umbrella stroller, so he couldn't have been more than 3 years old. And yes, I've seen mothers paying more attention to who's on the phone than their child. It's ridiculous.
 
Buckeye said:
What kind of feminist are you? The attached can help you decide.

8 Types of Feminism
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I think I'm a number 9 Feminist, (have I got that right?), one who thinks first and foremost women and men are all human beings - sounds pretty radical hey!

Here is an extract from what they happen to say "Radical Feminists" are:

"Radical feminism, as the name suggests, calls for radical encompassment of the need to view women as independent individuals free from the subjugation of the patriarchal notion infesting society. This is the one among the many types of feminism that is absolutely scathing in its attack on the male hierarchy as being the roots that led women to being subjected to oppression for ages.

Radical feminism tends to reside in extremes, sometimes perhaps even in vague apprehensions, trying to overrule the very basis of the gender demarcation. While some of its notions that it is the natural way the woman body has been perpetuated that leads what is called the fairer sex to be treated as weaker and therefore inferior might seem like too harsh or illogical a reason to either support or banish feminism, not all the radical views of feminism are unduly propagated.

At the core of radical feminism also rests the notion that because the traditional gender roles have been perpetuated as such that puts women at a disadvantage, it is so necessary to do away with all such demarcations. Also radically challenged are the ‘desires’ that view women as mere objects of sexual gratification including oppressive practices as pornography and prostitution. Because either of this traditional or modern gender roles necessarily stem from the sexual anatomy of the woman body, radical feminists consider it extremely necessary to do away with the whole concept of gender and the issues stemming from therein. From eliminating male superiority and doing away with all forms of violence against women, feminism in its most radical form urges to eliminate the very root of the problem that necessitated the emergence of feminism in the first place."
 
OneEyedDiva said:
There are a lot of mothers (and fathers) who seem to have no sense at all when it comes to caring for their children. My husband and I were on the beach one day and it was getting to be the time when the surf picks up. A lesbian couple was sitting in the sand kissing, hugging and generally not paying attention to the little boy in their care who had ventured too far out in the water. Finally my husband yelled to them to get the little boy.
I've seen a mother and different instance, a father cursing their toddlers out! I wasn't close enough to the man but I said something to the young woman. She got snarky about it but I told her to wait until her son talks to her like that one day. The child was in an umbrella stroller, so he couldn't have been more than 3 years old. And yes, I've seen mothers paying more attention to who's on the phone than their child. It's ridiculous.
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There's too much of that sort of thing going on and it seems to be getting worse. But what should we do? Tell them off? If we ring the cops they damn sure won't be coming.

I've seen so many things. A toddler once ran straight into my path as I was biking on the cycle path. The mother wasn't even looking to see where her child was. She was too busy on her telephone. It took all of my quick concentration to swerve around it. It was a really close call! Really, really close! The thing is, when I saw the child was at the point of no return I started shouting at the top of my lungs to try scaring the kid out of the way but you know what ..... the mother got angry with me for shouting at her kid. "He's only a child!", she told me. She considered the whole thing my fault. I would have liked to put my boot up her ass but .... that's not me.
 

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