I think Preacha hit the nail on the head when he said that fighting for rights, which women can't physically do as a male's equal... is wrong. That said, if a women can do the job right, I see no problem as her standing beside a male as his equal.
Currently the ADF do expect [slightly] less of women when enlisting.
Feminists can shit me to some degree, they base their beliefs on the wonder that somehow... someday, we can all live happily ever after in equality [I used to believe the same rubbish.] This is naive and stupid, we are cultured to be dominated by
power.
I'm not happy about this personally, but no point living in fairy land, even gods angels have a hierarchy
. It's the only way the world can function...
Are women equal to males? Overall, no! But what does that really matter? Some women are more powerful than the majority of the opposite sex -- they may be corporative business executives, weight-lifters with a 7 black black dan in ninjitsu, or your more common-found women who carries herself with a sense of courage. She's feisty, she's tough, and she has no problems getting her hands dirty and changing a tyre. YET... she's precisely the type of women I wouldn't expect to be calling herself a 'feminist'. She scoffs at the thought of women still 'fighting for feminist rights', she herself, has never bothered. Instead of asking, she just [respectfully] did as she pleased, and people mutually respected that and didn't stand in her way.
This is the type of women who deserves to have the rules bent for her. She takes on roles females aren't typically associated with and proves she's capable. I'd envision this type of women fighting for
her rights [what she's
personally able to do,] as opposed to
womans rights, if the need arised
.
My personal experience with feminists, however, has been the opposite of that women... and has instead been resentful women, still trying to justify what an asshole their ex-husband is. It
MUST be because males have too much power in the world. As if it could be her fault she'd allowed him to control their relationship. What was she supposed to do? Stand up to him? Leave him before he left her? What? With no-one to hold her hand? Well... to hell with that, she thinks as she reads a column in womans weekly about feminism. Later she'd email the editor and be put in touch with like-minded people.
Like-minded people who pretended, like her, to care how unfair it is that on average males still earn more than women. It didn't matter that she earned equally as much as males in her line of work. She was only suddenly concerned with this feminist movement in order to avoid facing her fears.
She was weak.
She stayed in a relationship with a man who treated her like shit, out of weakness.
Then he left her.
Easily.
Out of boredom.
"ALL MEN ARE LIKE THIS," she told her friends... who [supportively
] agreed.
And so that was that. Instead of turning inwards [after the initial dissillussionment] and working out why he never respected her... she'd assume it had nothing to do with her, and everything to do with his gender.
She'd support feminism in order to be a part of an identified group, because she'd never had the courage to fight for her individual rights, the way the courageous chick who changed tyres did [of course this is just an expample and chicks don't have to know how to change tyres to be courageous
.] She'd never realise that the rights she personally wanted and needed... were there already - ready for her to take. She just had to know her own inner-power... and she'd find that by confronting her fears.
FUCK I THINK THESE TWO GLASSES OF WINE HAVE GONE TO MY HEAD. Sorry about the entire story that I've invented.
Anyhow, yeah... my point is clearly that feminists are totally fucked in the head.
THE END!
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Of course, my entire post is a generalization that went way off the tracks and doesn't reflect all feminists
.