Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Feminist critique

I disagree with Ian Friedman’s blog post in which he states that he is not a feminist because feminism teaches that men and women are not equal. Specifically he says “In order to be a feminist one must believe that men and women are different.” This is not true. Merriam-Webster defines feminism as “the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes”. He goes on to say that he does support the equality of the two genders. Therefore he is a feminist because feminism is not giving one gender special privileges, but rather making men and women equal in all ways.

-Ryan Sussman

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