Blog 4 Assignment

In response to Mark Laessig’s blog post, I disagree with his reasoning as to why he is not a feminist. He states that feminist’s are people who “[stand] for just men and not women,” but in reality feminists are only trying to make women equal to men. He goes on to say that “today women have as many opportunities as men,” but this is clearly incorrect. According to CNN.com, “the average 25-year-old woman who works full-time, year-round until she retires at age 65 will earn $523,000 less than the average working man.” Also if “both sexes are seen as equal to most,” then there would not be hundreds of thousands of feminists in America and government imposed programs such as affirmative action attempting to make all people equal.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Careers/10/22/equal.pay/index.html