Types of Feminism , Can't We All Just Agree To Disagree

Types of Feminism , Can't We All Just Agree To Disagree?

Feminism is a complex word with many types, and while some seek to change society, others just want to have choices to be who and what they want.

Throughout the past several decades, there has been a growing dissent in the field of feminism. Those of us who came after the sixties don’t really understand why there has to be so much noise about gender equality.

There are many of us who feel like women are equal, but different, and don’t appreciate the bra burning ladies who came before that made chivalry a degrading practice, motherhood something you choose because you don’t have the ambition to do something better with your life, and that wanting a more traditional lifestyle is s3xist or just flat out stupid.

The whole idea about feminism is that it was supposed to allow women to choose for themselves what they wanted to do with their life. Opening the world to more options for women was the goal, but there are some of us who believe that when we opened some doors, we shut others making them not acceptable anymore.

Women’s rights, equal pay, and s3xism are all front and center in the political debate going on in this country, but what does the average women think about the war on women? It varies across the board.

Types of feminism in its varying complexities

Women are very complex creatures, and we have varying opinions about the way the world should be, and especially about how we want our own lives to be. The way that you see the role of women in America, whether we are being oppressed by the glass ceiling, or whether we are all genetically equal is all dependent on the type of feminism you subscribe to. Feminism is not a bad word, it all depends on how you choose to perceive it. Which type are you? [Read: Is chivalry dead because of feminism or lazy men?]

Liberal Feminism

A liberal feminist is someone who believes that it is their responsibility to change the way that women are viewed within society. They do so, however, silently and within the confines of the law. Creating small and incremental change, they believe that they have to work within the constraints of the way society is to make things more equal.

Being less vocal and trying to use the system to create legislation to even things out, they are not very effective at creating overall social change quickly. Slow and steady wins the race, these are the women who believe that the s3xes should be equal, but they have to work fairly to get there. Not screaming from the podium, they take solace in the small victories that empower women to make their own decisions. [Read: Why men feel so emasculated: Feminism and 3 other big reasons]

Radical Feminism

A radical feminist is someone who isn’t willing to work within the structure of the ways that things are. These are the types of feminists that are harsh and can be aggressive in nature. Dogmatic and ready for change NOW, they seemingly take on every challenge there is, pick up a picket sign for the smallest of causes and want fundamental change in the way that society operates on the whole.

They believe that women have been abused, degraded and demeaned for as long as society has existed. It is their duty, therefore, to right every wrong ever perpetrated on women. Stemming from the civil rights movement of the late 60s and 70s, a radical feminist believes that gender inequalities are no less prevalent than racial ones