Tell me how modern feminism has affected the lives of both genders and the society.?

Modern feminism, from the 70s onwards, has influenced many, if not all, of the following. I cant think of any negative aspects for women because, well, its FEMinism.

Here are some examples

Its all about a mothers rights, but no fathers rights. The new family unit is now defined as a mother and her children.

Women being treat like princesses in prison and men being treat like animals. Female prison guards humiliate and degrade men, but female prisoners get privacy and respect from male prison guards.

Bodily choice for women, but forced genital mutilation for baby boys, referring to womens rights to their bodies in terms of abortion, but boys being circumcised without choice.

Female reporters allowed in men’s locker rooms, but privacy and respect for female athletes. Very strange definition of equality that feminsim was very vocal about as being equal rights. Is this an example of the respect that feminists claim MEN dont have for WOMEN?

Its women getting everything in a divorce, and men being torn away from their children

Female sex offenders being slapped on the wrist, but male sex offenders being incarcerated the rest of their lives

Its men being sentenced to more time for the same crime than women. This can be reserached under the US government and shows that women dont get held accountable to the level that men do.

Its a feminized education system that cripples natural behavior of boys, makes being male a crime in school, then girls claiming they are smarter.

Why is it when two people under the age of consent have sex, only the boy is charged with doing something wrong?

Its women being allowed to drown five children and using the fact she is a woman to get away with it - Andrea Yates

Its women being allowed to use domestic violence as an excuse to murder a sleeping husband, even though there is no evidence of domestic abuse - Mary Winkler

Its the extensive abuse of restraining orders to villify an innocent man and get leverage in a divorce.

Its men being jailed for defending themselves against an abusive wife, but called a wimp if he takes the abuse

Its women demanding respect from men, but never having to respect them in return

Its women having the choice between abortion, adoption, dropping an unwanted baby off at a hospital, raising the child with a father, or raising the child without a father, but the only choice men have is to agree.

Its 3 innocent Duke Lacrosse players losing their lives because we dont ever think a woman could lie about rape - let alone prosecute her for doing so.

Its women labeling men as abusive when the US government has shown women cause more child abuse than men.

Its female rape being horrendous, but male rape being funny and made in to comedy movies. Rape is a legally accepted part of the justice system, but only against men.

Its just about every TV show being allowed to humiliate and degrade men, but women complaining and calling it sexist if they were treated the same.

It’s more health care spending going towards women’s health than mens.Breast cancer receives 7 times the funding of prostate cancer. There are three departments of womens health in the US government, but none for men. However, men live an average of 5 years less than women when the genders used to have the same life span.

Its allowing women only clubs and banning men only clubs

It’s doing everything we can to help girls in math and science, but letting boys fall further behind in everything else.

It’s defining equal pay for equal work as men playing five sets of tennis, but women only playing three. Maybe women claiming 3=5 is the reason for the above point

Its cutting men’s sports in college in favor of women’s sports that have no interest

Its female murderers being mentally ill, but male murderers just being evil

Its claiming men walk out on their family when its actually women who file 80% of divorces

Its men being portrayed as evil, stupid or buffoons on TV and all women being perfect or superior.

Its women wanting equality for their gender, but men being called chauvinist pigs when they want equality for their gender

Its fixing the education system when girls are failing, and blaming the boys when boys are failing

Its women being allowed to level false accusation against an innocent man without consequence. Read Duke Lacrosse and many other examples. Feminism has installed this right to women through the courts.

Its a man being a chauvanist, sexist pig when he doesnt respect women, but a women who doesnt respect men is an admirable, strong and independant woman.

Its feminists not being able to provide one example of legal discrimination against women today

Generally, neither extreme is true. Not all feminists are good, altruistic people. Just like not all teachers or clergy or red cross workers are good people. At the same time, for all the talk on here about supremacy and man-hating, I've never actually witnessed a self-identifying feminist act openly hostile towards men in real life. All of the women's studies professors and students that I've known have all taken a very middle-of-the -road approach. That may just be my good luck, but it's made me very disinclined to think that the feminist movement is irrelevant. Whether men want to hear it or not, there's still a 20 cent wage gap between the sexes that's actually growing. We're still ridiculously under-represented in government despite the fact that we now out-number men on college campuses. It's not enough to point to people like Hillary Clinton and claim that if one woman can do every woman can do it or that these inequalities are the product of individual women's choices. There are always factors behind people's choices and a trend of consistent under performance indicates a flaw in the way these choices are reached. At the same time, human traffickers bring thousands of women into the US every year to live as slaves and prostitutes. Women remain more heavily affected by domestic abuse and sexual crime than men (but I know that it does happen to men). Saying that feminism is irrelevant is essentially saying that these problems are irrelevant. It's like saying "good enough" to the idea of equal rights. It's an easy position to take, but it's not necessarily the right one.

Like you, I've had plenty of bad experiences from self described feminists, and only one good one ( a social studies teacher).

Almost every self described feminist that I have met has been bitter, man hating, and cruel to random strangers for no reason.

Since women have achieved practical equality with men, I don't see why it still exists as a movement. Most of the individuals that I have met have used feminism, ironically, to justify special treatment or to rationalize being selfish.

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Speaking of bad experiences, notice that the feminist thumbs down troll is lurking around.

Honest answer - None.

If anything there was ONE occasion when a woman that I held the door open for, waited for me to move on so she can open the door for herself. I moved on, not stopping for a moment to wonder if she was a Feminist or not. My opinion is that we don't see Feminists disrupting daily normal activities or the traffic on a daily basis.

Yes, my world is golden !

"Who should I believe?" - Believe none but form your opinions based on your own research. There's plenty of material available online. Watch 'Indoctrinate U' on YouTube to get to know what's going on in the universities. Read NOW website for views on Feminism, their goals and agenda. Watch how NOW dismisses PAS as an unproven theory. Learn what Fathers/Children Rights movements say about Feminism as of today. And finally, don't let anyone tell you that you're a Feminist or an anti-Feminist if you believe such and such things.

Increased divorce rates

Biased family and divorce courts

Increased single parent(single mother) households

Glorified the unwed teen pregnancy

lowered standards in many workplaces

Increased the numbers of frivolous discrimination and harassment law suits

Increased abortion rates

All of these points cannot be disputed,, you decide if they are good or bad.

you need to do a lot of research if you was a lawyer or a skilled private detective you will know by now that modern day feminist are man-haters. I found out that feminist were men haters by doing intense research.They try to cut down a lot of male sport in school/collage and now days boys are made to feel ashamed of they gender/sex. And a lot of boys that are on ritalin show no strong evidence of having ADHD

hear my proof that feminist hate men

These are actual quotes from a variety of mainstream feminists, stating their opinions and positions. The one common denominator is the obvious and blatant hatred of men. No reputable Father's Rights advocate could get away with making statements such as these- any man daring to say these kinds of things about women would instantly be branded a "gender-supremacist".

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"In a patriarchal society all heterosexual intercourse is rape because women, as a group, are not strong enough to give meaningful consent." Catherine MacKinnon in Professing Feminism: Cautionary Tales from the Strange World of Women's Studies, p. 129..

"I claim that rape exists any time sexual intercourse occurs when it has not been initiated by the woman, out of her own genuine affection and desire." From Robin Morgan, "Theory and Practice: Pornography and Rape" in "Going too Far," 1974. .

"When a woman reaches orgasm with a man she is only collaborating with the patriarchal system, eroticizing her own oppression..." Sheila Jeffrys .

"Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies." Andrea Dworkin

"Sex is the cross on which women are crucified ... Sex can only be adequately defined as universal rape." Hodee Edwards, ‘Rape defines Sex’

"Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat." Hillary Clinton, First Ladies' Conference on Domestic Violence in San Salvador, El Salvador on Nov. 17, 1998

"MAN: ... an obsolete life form... an ordinary creature who needs to be watched ... a contradictory baby-man ..."

"TESTOSTERONE POISONING: ... 'Until now it has been though that the level of testosterone in men is normal simply because they have it. But if you consider how abnormal their behavior is, then you are led to the hypothesis that almost all men are suffering from 'testosterone poisoning.'" from A Feminist Dictionary", ed. Kramarae and Treichler, Pandora Press, 1985

"Patriarchy requires violence or the subliminal threat of violence in order to maintain itself... The most dangerous situation for a woman is not an unknown man in the street, or even the enemy in wartime, but a husband or lover in the isolation of their home." Gloria Steinem in Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem, pp. 259-61..

"Women take their roles of caretakers very seriously and when they hear of someone who's taken advantage of a child, they react more strongly than men do." - Kathleen C. Faller, professor of social work at the University of Michigan

"I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which a man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it." - Former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan

Melbourne City Councilwoman Pat Poole announced her opposition to renaming a street for Martin Luther King: "I wonder if he really accomplished things, or if he just stirred people up and caused a lot of riots."

"Our culture is depicting sex as rape so that men and women will become interested in it." Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth, p. 138..

"Under patriarchy, no woman is safe to live her life, or to love, or to mother children. Under patriarchy, every woman is a victim, past, present, and future. Under patriarchy, every woman's daughter is a victim, past, present, and future. Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman," Andrea Dworkin, Liberty, p.58..

"Compare victims' reports of rape with women's reports of sex. They look a lot alike....[T]he major distinction between intercourse (normal) and rape (abnormal) is that the normal happens so often that one cannot get anyone to see anything wrong with it." Catherine MacKinnon, quoted in Christina Hoff Sommers, "Hard-Line Feminists Guilty of Ms.-Representation," Wall Street Journal, November 7, 1991.

"The fact is that the process of killing - both rape and battery are steps in that process- is the prime sexual act for men in reality and/or in imagination.". Andrea Dworkin, Letters from a War Zone, p. 22..

"Man's discovery that his genitalia could serve as a weapon to generate fear must rank as one of the most important discoveries of prehistoric times, along with the use of fire, and the first crude stone axe." Susan Brownmiller, Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape, p. 5..

Negatively.