The irony here, analyzing feminism in a convservative web page, is that the more you zoom in on key components, the more you see that the lines between vehement feminists and staunch conservatives can blurr between certain subsets.

Traditional feminsts: This is a collection of subsets within itself, but for the purpose in laying out to readers and in the order of history, I'll start with this. These activists cite that women have been treated unfairly through time and male dominance is a recurring vice in societies both historically, and in the present. Also, keep in mind that this is associated with conservatism for our high regards of convention, which has been said to really mean a family where the wife can't destroy by rebeling against an abusive husband.

Washington Feminists: I use this next one because this is where a social movement starts amplifying it's significance and power. This is where things go from abstract and emotional, to specific and logical. A thought like "Women should be treated as men" becomes a specific piece of legislation or court ruling where a man pinching a woman on the butt in the workplace is made illegal. A specific action comes from an abstract agenda.

The real start of the factions:

Abortion Feminists:

These are the feminists that use abortion as a central point in their ideology. Here is where a lot of lies come in because they have to dip into liberal sexual issues to support their plank of what is callled "abortion on demand", meaning unquestioned, unrestricted abortion across the board. They ignore health risk statistics, and that women may be confused about their "choice". The bigest problem with this being said that this is a woman's right to choose and she is being in control of her body, that is she was in true control of her body, then she would not have had illicit sex with some loser male that got her pregnant to begin with!

Cannibal feminists: (eat their own)

Women that say a woman deserves to be raped if either she was drunk, skimpily dressed, alone with a guy, or had a reputation for being a slut. They say if a woman stays with a man who beats her, then she deserves to be beaten.

[Elements]:

a) Disassociation
b) Ideological expiration(carry out your morals partially-synonymous with extreme immediate practicality; only do what's two feet in front of you),
c) to be elaborated...

[Antithesis]:

Women in situations that they know wouldn't get the attention if they were a man

Laws that treat drunk women with more protection than drunk men.

Historical feminists:

Women who stick to the simple and obvious planks such as it is wrong to beat your wife, or not include girls in activities just because she is a girl, but may be ambiguous in defending the faction of liberal men who defend porn so much and have clearly no resolve in degradation of women on the grounds that there is no such thing as a woman that can be conditioned, brainwashed or enslaved.

"Conservative" feminists:

Women that have mostly the street smarts about sex so much that they are near or completely for premarital virginity, wouldn't touch a man who goes to strip clubs, or gawks at a Hooters waitress, with a ten foot pole. You'd swear they would be socially conservative, but they have seen far too much association between premarital viriginty on the conservative side with things such as allowing a son to have sex, but not the daughter, and they are usually very pro-choice. They've also seen many examples of "conservative" males that are gung ho for strip clubs, and love swimsuit pin up calendars, and have used conservatism as a front that a woman's place is in the home and should not be college educated or in the white collar work force.

Conditional Feminists:

This is the nasty accusation that there is a certain breed of women out there who care about fowarding an agenda that is just pure liberalism. They have a propensity for bloated intrusive government and they want to be part of the social engineers agenda to have a hand in every life decision of the average person. They can spew rhetoric about ignored rape cases and domestic violence against women, but let a liberal male like Bill Clinton be an outright womanizer, and they sell out any woman (ignoring the Paula Jones case) who conflicts with their vision and order within their continuum.

This is a common thing that many activist cultures are accused of doing: compromising their orignal/core ideals. I can see the feminist dilemma here very easily. They have obviously seen many males that use 1920's barefoot and pregnant housewife stereotypes pushed by conservative males and know that they are not in that wing, and when the left pushes strip clubs and has Bill Clinton as their Founding Father icon, there is a nasty dilemma that many alienated women can be amidst.


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