I reckon feminism is making women's lives more miserable
Which particular kind of feminism? Hard to take your argument seriously until you define it.
Right to vote make me miserable? Earning the same as a man for the same job make me miserable? Having the same opportunities to be doctor, lawyer, manager, pastor, retain job after marriage, having children etc make me miserable? Protection from sexual harassment in the workplace, and rape within marriage make me miserable? Mmmm. All feminist goals, by definition, and driven most assuredly by feminist ideals. And all, I would think, reasonably acceptable to any reasonable person.
But maybe you're right. In some countries, the technical freedom some women have to drive a car, marry their own choice of partner, earn a living and walk alone down a street is still unacceptable to many, many others; and sadly even these hard-earned feminist goals are still resulting in violence, abuse and even death for the women militantly feminist enough to persist in claiming these as their rights.
You'll forgive me for preferring to live in a world where feminist targets of equality for all people aim to predominate (and sadly still a long way off), over your preference that those who are 'different' to men should be content with the crumbs from under your table; to quote a well-known lady who intuited that Christ would find it perfectly acceptable for her NOT to keep to her properly assigned place in culture and society.
Equal rights don't make you miserable. Believing you are opressed when you have the same rights and oportunities as everyone else is what does.
Feminism nowadays is not about equal rights. If it was, you'd be fighting for the rights of really opressed women who live in islamic countries, for example. But that's not acceptable in the movement. It's not rational, it's ideological.
Thought of the day, a middle class woman in the west has more rights, safety and prosperity then the vast majority of human beings in the world, including men. You are not part of an opressed minority. Society is not in debt with you.
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