Monday, July 04, 2005

the end of feminism

Whenever I see a group of boys and girls walking down the street, congregating near their school, having fun together, I know that the concept of feminism is dead. How do I know that? Because clothes always reveals the inner values. And the clothes the girls wear are so minimal they are designed to cover up as little as possible of the body and still be acceptable in school or a restaurant, while the boys clothes hide every vestage of their shapes and sizes through the baggiest pants and shirts etc imaginable, never actually seemingly to contact their body parts. Now feminism was about women becoming whole human beings, not primarily sexual objects for men's pleasure. Of course it was about other issues as well, but it is a key element of feminism that the stress on female sexuality is put aside in order for her creative and productive capabilities to come to the foreground. If the boys were also dressing half-naked, like the girls, I'd say, well perhaps all this is about is the pleasure of exposing bodies to light and air. But it is only the girls who expose their navels, breast, butts, etc. not the boys as well. The message to me is that this young generation has no conception of the essence of feminism, and that sexual beings in relation to their male counterparts is how they see themselve. I know this view of women has been promoted by female celebrities, which is accepted and taken as the norm, which only confirms my assertion that feminism, ie.,the rethinking and revaluing the place of women in society, is either a lost cause already, or is in the dying throes.

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