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What is the deal with feminism?
I honestly can call myself a feminist even though I understand some of the things in feminism aren't right, but why do people hate feminists so much?
I believe that it is not men's fault for seeing women as objects when we wear slutty outfits because wearing close to nothing isn't exactly showing off our personality like some women say it is. Men don't walk around the streets wearing underwear and nothing else and if they did, women wouldn't look at them and say 'I bet he has a great personality' so why should us women get upset when men see us like this???
I believe that men should be getting the blame for sexual abuse and rape though. Surely they can hold themselves back enough not to cat call some women that passes just because they think she's hot. For gods' sake what do they think the women's going to do? Turn around and make out with them?
I also believe that men aren't aloud to be weak and that is very wrong to me. Why should men be expected to be strong and to be called gay I they show even a little sign of weakness?
I don't know, I just don't understand why some women and most men hate feminism, because we don't just fight for rights for women, we fight for men's rights as well
9 AnswersGender & Women's Studies7 years agoConstantly feeling stressed??
It've been feeling constantly stressed for absolutely no reason. I'm 15 years old and don't have a job or go to school (I'm homeschooled. I still do lots of work but at my own pace) so I don't even really have a reason to feel like this. I have suffered from severe social anxiety ever since I was nine or ten, which is why I couldn't handle being in a 'school environment' as such, but I mostly feel like this when I'm home. I even went on a holiday with the family last week to try and relive some of the stress but I couldn't. I keep feeling like I need to go for a walk and it does help but when I get back I still feel the same. I love to write so I'm often off in my own world and I have been told often that I have little to no concept of reality. I don't know if that has anything to do with this but I think it some how might seeming as the stress is usually telling me I should be constantly writing.
I'm sorry for writing such a long paragraph but I just keep feeling like I've eaten a tub of salt and sometimes I even feel like I'm being stabbed in the left of my chest.
Anyway.. Thank you for taking the patients to read this :P
2 AnswersPsychology7 years agoBrother pretending to be bullied?
My 12 year old brother claims to be bullied by this boy in his class but I'm almost certain he's the one bullying him. My brother lies almost constantly and always finds ways to get me into trouble because he's the 'favourite'. One time he told my mother an Father that I threw something at him, even though I obviously didn't, and he even started crying about it, desperately trying to make my parents feel sorry for him and get angry at me.
He's a real fake in front of my parents and talks in a baby voice, making my parents believe he's innocent as hell. I recently went on instagram to find him abusing another girl on instagram calling her a '****' and a, please forgive my language, '****'.
I feel really sorry for this boy because he's really shy and quiet and really doesn't deserve this. My mother has even consulted our religion and the principal of the school to talk to the family.
I dot believe my brother's friend is completely innocent because fair enough he has hit my brother twice but he probably had a good reason by the sound of it.
I just don't know what to do because it's really getting out of hand and my parents have no idea about the instagram account or the 'real him' and it frustrates me like hell because my parents call this other kid a psychopath and they always yell at me for things and tell me to be more like my brother but to be honest I don't think I want to...
Sorry for rambling but I'm really in a pickle :/
3 AnswersFamily7 years agoWhat makes a good couple in a novel?
I am writing a sci-fi fantasy novel not a romance novel so I want the couple to be more of a cute side story and not a full on 'I'm so in love with you' type of thing. They don't exactly kiss or anything but at the end they nervously hold hands and I thought it would be a cute ending. They're both about 30 so they aren't exactly teens but they're rather antisocial and shy even though the male can come off as an asshole due to the fact he hasn't got good people skills and the woman is pretty ignorant and is definitely more of an introverted person as she tends to come across as bitchy even though she has no idea that what she's saying is offencive to others. They get along well because they're to-the-point people and not the type of couple that spend all their time flirting with each other, even though they never actually ask each other out. They don't take offence too much themselves so they tend to be very patient and tolerant with each other.
Is this a couple that could work?
What actually makes a good or cute couple in a book or movie?
4 AnswersBooks & Authors7 years agoObsessed with death and metal illness?
I am completely obsessed with death. I don't mean as in obsessed with the fact that I'm going to die and that I'm scared I mean as in I love it obsessed. I always search up ways people have died and famous murderers and how to kill people without it being spotted in an autopsy (Not that I'd kill anyone for no reason).
I have basically no feelings or empathy for anybody so I really don't get upset when people around me are dying or have died, in fact I get excited if anything.
I also love mental disorders as I look them up most of the time! My favourites are Aspergers syndrome and sociopathy/psychopathy (anti social personality disorders) I also think cannibalism is and interesting subject!!!
I am 15, have close to no friends and I really don't talk about anything but mental disorders and death, which my mother believes makes people uncomfortable but I honestly don't understand why as we all know we're going to die one day and there's a good chance their death may come from murder so why are they upset???
I also hate talking to people so I pretend I'm shy so they go away and it works well too!! I am a very good liar as nobody knows when I'm lying and I research lying a lot too so I can get really good at it and know when others lie.
Is this normal?? Do people usually do these things??? As I said I don't talk to people much so I wouldn't know..
Thank you!!!
3 AnswersMental Health7 years agoTypes of characters every sci-fi/fantasy book or movie should have?
I am writing a book and I have a heap of different personalities-
- The genius (also an asshole)
- The sarcastic smart one
- the one who is forced into fighting rather then choosing to
- the goth
- the kind girl
- The badass girl who is a good shot
- The femme fatal who is sorta like catwoman
- the guy who is just generally cool
- the very ADHD, loud and excitable one
- The villain-like creepy guy
Villains-
- the chaotic one
- the one that scares the absolute crap out of every body
- the sort of normal one who everybody in a way likes and feels sorry for
- the way too extreme, as in eats the heart of her victims one
-and the one who is more powerfull then all of them put together
Are there any vital personalities I need or any I don't really need or are too cleche????
Thanks
5 AnswersBooks & Authors7 years agoWould you read this book?
It's about a teenage girl who is very intelligent and finds a body buried in her yard. She has a very strange personality and decides to keep the body in her shed to try and find the murderer.
A girl her age, who turns out was stealing from her, encourages her to give the body into the police so she disguises herself and leaves it at the doorstep during the middle of the night.
She slowly becomes more and more obsessed with death and accidentally kills her mother. She also kills her father so he won't find out about her mother. Instead of dropping them off at the police as she did earlier she goes to a cemetery late at night and replaces two of the bodies already buried, with her parents. She skins the bodies so she can keep the bones to study.
It's really disturbing but she basically just ends up being a murderer as she developed a hunger for killing.
Would you read a book like this?
5 AnswersBooks & Authors7 years agoWould you read this series?
I am writing a book about people from a planet called Falkor who decide they want to kill off the human race in order to keep the bad people, or prisoners from their race onto Earth.
It's about fifty years into the future so the entire Earths Human governments have become just one and they are trying to make more and more money as the human race is slowly dying off due to the fact that there was another race known as 'foreign zombies' from another planet who breath in oxygen and carbon dioxide and breath out another type of gass that causes any human who breathes it in to turn into a foreign zombie (which is basically just a monkey-like alien).
The human government ways the humans to pay more and more money due to the decrease in humans which means that they are selling false medications and other products which is pretty much killing the humans anyway. The humans have to wear gass masks constantly to protect themselves from turning into foreign zombies.
A group of Falkorians (Alien race's name) stray from the evil and become a rebellion group in order to try to save the human race. A Falkorian girl named Nicole Night is the main character.
I know it's really weird and hard to understand but would you read something like this???
3 AnswersBooks & Authors7 years agoAm I a sociopath/psychopath?
I've been watching a lot of shows on TV and stuff like that and have been discovering that I am very much alike to some of the characters that are on their, but the characters that I believe are similar are always the murderers or just the bad guys in general. Which lead me into wondering as to whether I was a psychopath a sociopath or perhaps just going through the phases.
First of all I am 14 years of age, turning 15 this year.
I have this thing were I have sudden urges to hurt people. My mother once gave me a knife as I was cooking dinner for that night and I had a strange urge to turn around and stab her. She had not angered me nor had she upset me in any way I just felt as if I needed to do it.
I basically have no emotions whatsoever. I don't feel sorry for people, I never get sad, happy, or anything the like. I can put on emotions pretty well and people never seem to notice anything but 'm never actually feeling those emotions.
I am obsessed with murder, at this point I'm not quite sure as to whether I want to commit it or solve it but it still worries me.
I hide things from everybody. I never let anybody see what I'm doing even though I never do anything I know they wouldn't be happy about anyway, I just for some reason hide it anyway.
I never have hobbies or likings towards certain things as I believe that people may use it to threaten me into doing something and even if I did have a bobbie I would always hide it
I am a girl by the way (in case that helps) and I am just generally curious!
Thanks!
4 AnswersPsychology7 years agoCan you get a job to do with mythology?
I'm really interested in mythological creatures and I've been writing a heap of my own novels with mythical creatures in it, but I was wondering, is actually a job you can get to do with mythology? I'm really interested in this subject because I like fantasy stuff but it writing books but I really want to know if there's anything you can do apart from writing.
Anybody know???
3 AnswersMythology & Folklore7 years agoIs anchorman 2 better then the first?
I am a massive fan of the first anchorman film and I thought it was hilarious but I saw the trailer for the second one and it looked way cruder then the first, although, the first was also crude.
Is it better then the first. I'm a little hesitant in watching it but I still just want to go see it anyway?
What do you think???
3 AnswersMovies7 years agoGood new movies to watch?
Any good movies on DVD to watch??? I want to watch something but I can't think of any good new movies.... Any ideas????
5 AnswersMovies8 years agoWhat is wrong with me?
Ok. So I know I'm weird but I don't think that this is normal.
I was standing outside and my Dad told me to cut some rhubarb because we were making a stew type of thing and my Dad handed me this knife to cut it to me. So I sat down and I was cutting it all like normal when my Mum sat next to me. All of a sudden I had the weirdest feeling that I wanted to stab her, as much as I tried to stop thinking about it I couldn't so I just dropped the knife and left. After that day I keep getting that same impulse to stab or break things even if the people I'm wanting to stab are completely innocent and have done absolutely nothing to upset me.
I also hear voices often and have a strong interest in murder, usually it's wanting to solve it but sometimes it's actually committing it.
I've been told many times that I show no emotions. I never cry and I never see people as having feelings. I always think they're just people and never understand when they're hurt or upset.
I definitely have problems when it comes to telling the difference between reality and imagination. I even make up my own characters in my head that I believe are real.
I also don't have any hobbies apart from movies because I believe they are weaknesses and whatever hobbies I take up a threat will use to threaten me with.
By the way Im 14 years old and a girl. Is this normal???? I don't think it is but that's just me. Please help!!!
2 AnswersMental Health8 years agoWhen does sherlock season three air in Australia?
I've been dying to know!!!!
1 AnswerDrama8 years agoThings to do to help you think?
Normally I just bounce a bouncy-ball up and down my kitchen to help me think (but I've lost it) about whatever I'm doing, usually I'm just writing a book or trying to solve some random murder I found on the internet (Which I always fail at mind you). I was just wondering if there's anything that would help me to think while trying to figure out these things. I used to play the violin but I found that horrifyingly boring after playing the same songs over and over.
Anyway, any idea's???
1 AnswerMental Health8 years agoHigh school health project help?!?!?
I need to finish a health project but I can't figure out the last question. I need to know why poor body image would decrease your participation in physical activity.
Any idea's?
2 AnswersPrimary & Secondary Education8 years agoWhat Aussie movies do Americans have?
Just woundering if Americans get Aussie movies like tomorrow when the war began and Kath and Kim??
Do you get Aussie TV shows too??
1 AnswerMovies8 years agoCharlie and the Chocolate factory or avatar?
I am going to watch a movie tonight and I can't decide on which one. Help?
5 AnswersComics & Animation8 years agoWhich of these sounds the best as a book?
I am in the middle of writing a heap of books and I want to know which one you would read:
>Taking back the Earth- Dinosaurs are taking the Earth back again.A group of seven teens and two adults have to help stop the dinosaurs from destroying the Earth with a little help along the way. The book is set in the town of Geelong, Australia.
>Luke and Jester- A teenaged girl gets kicked out of her high school and forced to move schools to Dyson High. She meets a boy named Luke and his mischievous gang and they both help each other to get through life's hard times.
>Adaption- The world has changed over the last few years. But in this book, it's 2050. Animals are nothing like they used to be, they are bigger, stronger and twice as ferocious. Grace joins a team of people to try and keep the animals under control.
>Nicole Night- A place named 'Falkor' has demanded war against Earth, but two of these Folkorians have decided to rebel. Nicole, who is part tiger and Greyson, who is part wolf, start another army to go against the king of Chaos and his goons.
>Bob and John- Two step brothers named John and Bob are forced to learn to get along once a villain known as Insanity kidnaps their wives. They soon find out that it takes one to know one, they hire a supervillain to help them find Insanity, but after the villain refuses do work alongside them, they have to go to extreme measures and drug him, making it almost like working with a three year old child.
I know these are really bad summaries and probably all stupid stories but if you honestly had to pick one, which one would you pick?
4 AnswersBooks & Authors8 years agoWould you read this book?
It's a book about aliens who are pretty much like werewolfs. The book is based on a 16 year old girl named Nicole Night who comes from a planet called Falkor. She is part white tiger. Her friend, Greyson is also part wolf. They both join forces to help save the human race from an attack by the evil king of Falkor
named the King of Chaos, who happens to be a hyena, as well as his evil side kick, the King of darkness, who is part horse.
I know I suck at writing summaries but does this sound any good as a book? Plus I'm writing a prologue and I want to know if anybody actually reads the prologues to books????
4 AnswersBooks & Authors8 years ago