It’s Time For No-Wave Feminism

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7. My thinking goes along similar lines...

What you've described in allowing women to make the choices they want to make is what the core essence of feminism is for me as well...

I get what yr saying about breaking down barriers, even if it was a beauty pageant, which I also disagree with the concept of, and have a theory that the poor kids from 'Toddlers and Tiaras' will turn up at them one day trailed by their stage mothers. It was another barrier that was broken, and it wasn't all that many decades ago that women were breaking barriers in their fight for equality here. My grandmother used to be proud that she was the first woman where she worked who was allowed to keep her job when she got married, and I used to sit there thinking to myself WTF? Continuing working after getting married is a no-brainer! But sometimes the big barriers of becoming the leader of a country can be a poisoned chalice. Those big barriers that don't look like being broken any time soon in the US have been broken here. While she's no Maggie Thatcher, I really wish our first female Prime Minister could have been someone who's actions I was proud of, but she opposes gay marriage, and has turned her back on her socialist roots....