In practical terms its goal was highjacked by a more anti male militiant group.
You know, I don't ever hear feminists actually being "anti male militants", and I know a lot of them. The only ones I hear saying feminism is about being an anti-male militant, is guys like Rush Limbaugh, who want to demonize feminism and feminists. Actually, hearing people who don't like feminism talk about what a feminist 'is', is alot like hearing JWs talk about what "apostates" are, how they act, and what they think.
Its goal, as I have explained to my 18 year old daughter, has more to do with disenpowering man than actually helping women. Ladies.... feminism, as it stands now, is not designed to make you happy!
Excuse me, but I find it rather, um, interesting that a man thinks he knows more about what feminism really is and what its goals are, than women who are feminists. That's like me telling you that you're wrong about what it's like to be a teenage boy.
A happy woman is a lousy feminist.
In my experience this is incorrect.
Even if a woman is happy with her personal treatment by the men in her life (more power to those men), she may espouse "feminist" causes like birth control education, stopping child prostitution in the third world, and female genital mutilation. She may also work on feminist issues like equal treatment under the law (on average, a man who has a record of wife abuse and eventually kills her, serves less jail time than a woman who, after suffering years of [documented] spousal abuse, kills her abusive husband).
I know many women who have been unhappy (with very good reason) with their treatment by some men, who are feminist. They don't blame all men for the actions of a few.
I even have known a couple of women (only a couple) who actually do hate men. Without exception, they were women who have undergone horrific long-term abuse as children and adults, and have seen male authority figures refuse to help, and other men either refuse to help or just not care...thinking it's "not that big a deal" or "you're overreacting." If every man in a woman's life has either abused her or didn't care, it's no wonder she thinks all men are scum.
