Max

Hello. Recently, I have always been wondering what Feminists goals still are... There are many things from Feminism I agree with, but I still don't fully understand what Feminism's main purpose is now.

Before I start my "mini-essay" (sorry), I would like to point out that I am absolutely fine with men and women having equal rights and opportunities. I also agree with most of Feminism's ideas about sexual objectification. I would feel very uncomfortable, as a women, to walk into a Newsagents and see the whole top row of magazines to be full of naked women. I think that everyone agrees that domestic violence and rape are absolutely heinous crimes for any man OR WOMEN to commit. I am also aware that there is a lot of beauty standards which can cause severe anxiety in women, and make them feel very sad. Most of all, I feel sad that women don't feel safe in first world continents such as: North America, Europe (especially Western) and Australia.

But, I don't agree with: the encouragement of man hating, the pay gap (which has been misproven), invisible barriers and other things. I believe that feminists judge men as human beings just due to their genitals. Why not based of their personalities? However, what would I know. I'm just a 14 year old white male who is a misogynist who will rape and sexually abuse women (obviously)!

So feminists, what are your aims? Do you hate all men (if you do you're sexist btw), and do you care for all the women out there in the rest of the world?

Hello, I've been learning Korean for a few weeks. I know Hangul and I've recently got to chapter 7 in the "Go Billy Korean" textbook, so I'm doing quite well...

However, what can I do with Korean fluency when I'm an adult looking for jobs? I won't have that much opportunities to speak Korean anyway, since it isn't a common language in England. The only reason I thought of Korean (Over Mandarin/Japanese) was that it had an easy alphabet, so I could progress quicker.

Should I learn Mandarin or Japanese instead? They both seem like much more useful languages to learn; China and Japan both seem like places I'd be interested in visiting too!

I like Chinese: food, nature and stuff. I like Japanese: nature, some video games (Nintendo/Capcom etc. I know, it's embarrassing XD) and all that good stuff. I like Korean: Music and erm... meh.

So should I learn Mandarin or Japanese instead of Korean? I know stuff like Mandarin and Japanese have the hardest writing. Japanese and Korean have the hardest grammar, and Korean and Mandarin have the hardest pronunciation. I'm also aware that Japanese and Korean languages are SOV languages!

Thank you very much in advance!

Hello! So recently, I've started to learn Korean. I've studied Hangul (which was really easy) and I've recently purchased a Korean textbook. I only know how to say basic stuff like "Hello, my name is___ ,I want a ___, I like ___" The reason I even thought of studying Korean in the first place was because the alphabet was really easy, and the language sounds really nice. I'm not really planning on ever going to Korea though....

On the other hand, I really like Japan! The nature is beautiful, I heard the food is nice and Japanese is a more useful language to learn overall. However, I heard it is a lot harder than Korean, especially learning all the characters (I heard Kanji are really hard to learn).

So do you think I should learn Japanese, or should I complete my beginners textbook in Korean, then see how I feel about it, and maybe then start some Japanese (since learning basic Korean will help me with the grammar and stuff with Japanese).

The issue with Korean is, I won't really be able to have lots of practice unless I actually go to Korea. Japanese is a lot more spoken, so I'll have more practice to retain what I've learnt.

Thank you very much!

Hello, I'm going to be picking my GCSE options soon. I've already asked this questions but my previous account has been recycled so I can't tell if anyone else has replied to it.

Ok, at my school, we'll be able to pick 3 of our own GCSE options. One of the have has to be: Computer Science, History Geography and a language (French, Spanish or German).

My school says that I could do triple science next year, since I'm top set. For my options, I was thinking of: French, Geography and History but I'm not sure if the workload would be too much? I'm in second set for French, so I'm definitely not a language genius, but I want to do it. Geography and History (and R.E) are my best lessons, which I seem to be doing best in. I'm better at History, and I like it more than Geography but I still like Geography. Also, I'm really bad at creative subjects and I don't particularly like I.C.T. So do you think that: Triple Science, French, Geography and History (along with all the new work for the new Maths and English exams) would be too much? I'm good at English, but I don't really get Maths (I'm in set 2).

Or, do you think I should not do Geography and do a creative subject, which I wouldn't get a very good grade in since I'm bad at them?

Thank you so much in advance, if you need to know anything else I'll be willing to tell you! :)