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Kris W
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Kris W asked in Social ScienceGender Studies · 1 decade ago

Do feminist's guide their ideology or does their ideology guide them?

The question is in the title, thoughtful answers please.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    actually there ideology controls them because they everything they do is based on hate

  • 1 decade ago

    I think they guide their ideology. You have to feel strongly about feminism to be a feminist in the first place. And people are susceptible to outside influence. So people are essentially moulding their own ideology by mixing and matching what they see the their lives. So I suppose they mould their ideology first, and then let it guide them, and change them to fit their experiences as it comes.

  • 1 decade ago

    depends on the person or feminist. It also depends how you define feminist. Some people just think of feminism as myosandrism or if you go strictly by the definition, it just fits anyone who thinks women should be treated equally (even if they don't call themselves feminist). I consider myself feminist based on that definition. If you get really technical, there are a very very wide variety of different types of feminists with very different ideologies.

    I think most people think they guide their ideologies more than their ideologies guide them and like to think of it that way. It would be a good psychology study to see which is more true (for any ideology, not just feminism). In my experience, there are a few people who are proud to flaunt the fact that they are completely and utterly brainwashed and would never be open enough to actually question their ideologies (mostly religious fanatics). I don't think most feminists really hate men unless they've had negative experiences with men who seem to hate women or want to control them too much. I think most hate in any group or individual is a reaction against perceived (both real imagined) injustices from the target. I have also met self proclaimed masculinists who seem to hate women just as much as people think feminists always hate men. I'm not saying all masculinists hate women, but feminism by definition is not necessarily hatred of men either.

  • It's a two ways street, or a vicious cycle that keep feeding on itself (like a tropical hurricane feeding off warm air off Atlantic seaboard).

    BTW, it's not even logical or coherent enough to be called an ideology, but rather "Theology".

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