Rose DesRochers

The Feminist Movement - Yesterday's Woman vs Today's Feminist



Posted: Monday, October 16, 2006

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I'm a guide, mentor, mother, nurturer, wife, and friend. I am a new woman in an ever changing new world. When life gives me lemons, I take those lemons and makes lemonade.

As a woman, I have the same goals in mind today as my mother did yesterday. I want just as much to raise and care for my children in a healthy home environment. The only difference between me and my mother is that she was born in 1932, a time of poverty. By the age of 12, she was at home raising her brothers and sisters instead of attending school.

My mother grew into a woman and took on the job of mother and wife. She never worked outside of the home until my father's death in 1988. At this time she was forced back into the workforce with no education and little job experience. She returned to the factory that she had worked at before marriage until ill health required her to retire early. But she did what she had to do to survive.

Today, as women, we have worked our way into the right to vote, to fight for equal pay, and to break away from traditional roles. Some of this breakdown is good, but I think we might have taken it too far. No longer is today's feminist concerned with equality. The feminist movement has made us one up on man. The abortion movement is such an example. The law allows a woman to take power over a joint decision by aborting a life made by both man and woman, and the man has no say over it. Yet the same feminists are demanding that fathers pay child support and alimony instead of teaching the single woman to financially support herself.

Women today have more than equal rights, so why does the feminist movement still demand more. She wants to have her cake and eat it too. The feminist way of thinking is biased. She wants the same rights as man, but has no trouble accepting a few favors because she has breasts and ovaries.

At one time, the feminist movement actually stood for something, and meant something to me as a woman, but sadly not anymore. Today's Feminist has gone from the nurturing, caring mother, like my mother was, to a bitter, resentful man hater.

Being a woman today should mean that we make a contribution to humanity as a whole. It should mean that we are equal to man, not above him. It should be about finding our passion in life and embracing it with determination. Unfortunately, there are too many double standards set by today's feminist. I believe while the feminist movement in the beginning helped women by opening up opportunities for them, they have now taken things a little too far. What do you think?


Rose DesRochers is  the founder of "Blogger Talk Blog Community" , a friendly blogging support forum. She is also the administrator of Today's  Writing Community, an online community for writers poets and short story writers and an acting editor at Cyber Media Article Directory."

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