Feminist Stereotypes

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In my interviews, a pattern was formed by how they viewed feminism. Feminism was described as females fighting for equal rights, socially, economically and politically in society. One person added that, “Feminists believes in equality especially in areas such as education and employment. I learnt that even though the responses were different, some persons’ opinions were the same. This goes to show that, they understood feminism in their own unique way.
I did not understand feminism, but the more I read about it the more knowledge and outstanding I gained. Many persons think that feminism is a way of overthrowing men’s power and dominating them (Valoy, Why Feminism Can Be Scary for Some Women). Well, feminism is really base on gaining equality of both sex in a patriarchal society.
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“Feminism is dead” (5) was a misconception, this was used to persuade peoples’ mind that both sex are equal because women had gained some privileges. However, women are still being viewed differently in some areas, like education and employment. In many schools some courses are viewed as masculine such as computer science and engineering. Women are still receiving less salaries than men, even if they both have the same job description. “Feminists hate men” was a very popular stereotype used to say that feminist wanted men to be powerless. A more accurate thinking of feminism was for all sex to be equality. Hence, feminists critiqued the patriarchal society (Launius and Hassel, Threshold Concepts, 6). The impression that was given about feminists hating men, leads to the another stereotype, “Only women can be feminists”. This assumption was being questioned, some men are feminist because they have women in their lives who they think should be treated equally (Launius and Hassel, Threshold Concepts,