Feminism has been killed by "Girl Power." Does anybody care?

If you think that the feminist fight is over because people who write stupid articles in Sunday papers say so, and because sitcom women are more interested in shoes and boys, then may I introduce you to the situation of women in free trade zones and misogynistic theocracies that still believe in female circumcision? There's a whole world out there to conquer, me bucko.

In other words: stupid question.

I think that feminism is not holding women and girls to some high moral standard and telling them that they can't be goofy or emotional, but instead allowing women to be who they need and want to be and accepting that as their behaviour. The more women are criticized and put down for their behaviour the more the feminist movement has become in vein. This isn't saying that all women should be ditzes who know nothing about anything, quite the opposite actually... I think that if women feel that confidence in their own personality and sense of experience in the world, they won't feel the need to be that ditzy character who cites a "womanly airheaded tendency" as an excuse for their lack of confidence.

So my point is that feminism has not been killed by "girl power" but rather this ditzy craze is more of a symptom of a lack of confidence and a sign that not enough changes have been made in the lives of women.

Feminism was a load of rubbish. If a woman really wants to do something she can do it. It's too easy to say that for instance driving steam engines was a man's job. I did it in the 60's and have never felt that being a woman was a disadvantage in getting any sort of job. Feminism and bra burning reiterates the message that women can't do anything on their own.

I think the problem is that the sterotypical feminist is perceived as being so unfeminine. Girl power is about showing that women can be strong and sexy at the same time. Having fun does not make a woman an airhead.

The point is that women can be whatever they want. They can be a sophisticated career woman or a bimbo, they can be married or single, they can be monogomous or sleep around. Feminism is about not holding women up to some kind of role they have to play or rules they have to follow and let them act however they want.

Feminism is asserting female strengths, such as sensitivity and protection. But feminists are agressive, competitive women. These are masculine strengths.

With the advent of feminism, women began to behave more like men. Society became unbalanced. Both men and women were being aggressive and competitive.

In an attempt to readdress this imbalance, so-called 'new men' emerged. These men were more sensitive and protective - female strengths.

So, now some women are behaving like some men used to and some men are behaving like some women used to.

The feminists - the ones asserting female strengths - are men.

In the 'battle of the sexes' no one has won and no one has lost. Men and women have simply swapped sides. So we are no nearer now to winning the true 'battle' than we ever were - the battle to understand each other.

Girl power? So what power is that then?

Girl power showed the real truth about feminism.... equality was only a stepping stone to the kind of dominance they pretend that men had over women over the centuries.

Men weren't enslaving women, men were being mugs, going to hard work every day whilst the women stayed at home, and as I do my own housework I know it's all done in only two hours.

Its men who were enslaved, and now that women go to work too, it's all the better. Long live equality!

No i dont think feminism is dead!

The people you mention (i assume they are American as i have not heard of them all, i am British) are in the public eye and maybe its the media, hype and propaganda that has given out this stereotype???

Ask any intellectual woman she will tell you that feminism isn't dead but in my opinion a little subdued by all the propaganda etc. Or maybe women are slightly more crafty than men and disguise things better???

It's not over. "Feminism" has been replaced by many different "feminisms", due to those in the 60's that came from upper-middle class WASP backgrounds ignoring or not seeing the plights of those that didn't share the same background and had different concerns.

women are lovely,but,women especially british women are more butch than the men in this modern world of ours today.

i feel the british woman has lost a lot of respect from the men of the country and are sadly just used as objects.

why are the women scared to act feminine, why do they take and use all the bad negative shite that men do,do you reckon women are more butch and scatter brained than say 20yrs ago or more