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Digg Proves that Feminism is still Relevant

November 13th, 2007 by stephanie

Feminism is defined as the belief in the social, political, and economical equality of the sexes.

On digg there is an article about Swedish women wanting to change the law that would make a woman to be able to go topless at pools.

The majority of the digg commenters had two reactions. First one was yay for boobies (typical expected reaction). The second one was, but if we were able to see boobies all the time like that wouldn’t we become desensitized to them and that would suck, so they should keep them covered up.

In both reactions little regard was given to the women as people but only to their boobies and how much the men would enjoy them or get bored with them. Which would imply that these digg users see women only as sexual objects that exist for their enjoyment. Therefore social equality hasn’t been achieved if one segment of the population sees another segment as being there just for their pleasure.

Social aspects of life also factor into the political and economical realms of life. After all people ask voters “which candidate would you most like to have a beer with?” and consider that to be a healthy political dialogue. That alone is mind boggling. And getting to the top of the corporate ladder is considerably harder if you have to start at the bottom of the social one. Therefore feminism is still relevant and has yet to reach it’s goal of equality. As opposed to it’s detractors who claim that feminism has already achieved it’s goals in our culture and that it should disappear or just worry about other cultures.

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4 Responses

  1. JoshC Says:

    digg==don’t intent to get girls.
    —-
    Sex deprived computer geeks, I wouldn’t consider to see very understanding with femenistic points of views. When you have a title such as “Swedish Feminists Launch Campaign For The Rights To Bear Breasts At Pools” you can mostly expect a certain kind of people to click and comment on the article (see above).
    Just like when I see an article “Master Chief’s Best Halo 3 Kills”..I don’t expect very many thought out comments.

    The political and corporate argument is a different can o’worms, I think!

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