tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3683359865051696135.post3556413767061767846..comments2023-05-30T09:36:56.374-04:00Comments on Tea For Today: A Tea for International Women's DayMarlenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01075020988377774265noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3683359865051696135.post-24852682614317447232011-03-10T12:07:46.249-05:002011-03-10T12:07:46.249-05:00I consider myself a feminist, sometimes even with ...I consider myself a feminist, sometimes even with radical feminist tendencies. What are some of the issues you're most concerned about in terms of erosion of women's rights?<br /><br />While I think the more serious women's rights issues are mostly in developing countries, I do think that women's rights in the U.S. are not quite as far advanced as people, especially those with a more stereotypically conservative political persuasion, believe. I've heard a number of women express to me that they don't consider themselves feminists because they believe that women and men already have equal rights in the U.S. and they think that feminists are "just complaining" or are "wanting to be on higher footing than men".<br /><br />But when you look at objective measures, such as representation in leadership positions within organizations, wage and salary pay for roughly similar jobs, and statistics of sexual assault, you get a different picture.<br /><br />That's not to say there aren't issues facing men too. Men currently lag behind in terms of college educational achievement, and I do believe that our society is extremely repressive towards men expressing certain types of emotions, and even more repressive and often outright hostile towards deviation from gender or sexual norms. But as far as I'm concerned, being a feminist is equally committed to solving these problems as well.<br /><br />=)Alex Zorachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08335878680429494039noreply@blogger.com