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  • PRO

    In the UK, one in four women suffers domestic violence,...

    Feminism Has Plenty More To Achieve

    Feminism is still of relevance today, and is indeed needed. In the UK, one in four women suffers domestic violence, and an increase in the reporting of rape in the last thirty years has gone alongside a threefold drop in conviction rates. In countries such as Ireland and Malta abortion is still not legal for all women, this can be seen as an important part of equality for woman that has not been achieved yet and needs to be fought for.  If we take feminism as a global movement then the movement is still of huge importance. That's because U.S. women still earned only 77 cents on the male dollar in 2008, according to the latest census statistics. (That number drops to 68% for African-American women and 58% for Latinas.) [1] These are all real problems, on which feminists continue to campaign - as they should. [1] http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1983185,00.html#ixzz1TtHZOvXp  

  • PRO

    Many issues revolving around modern woman-ness include...

    CMV: Feminism is wildly misinterpreted by its opponents

    I always hear from opponents of feminism that toxic masculinity shreds up the essence of manliness, casts masculinity into some evil, etc. I hear counterpoints that men have their problems too (which is not a counterpoint as feminism embraces that). I think people do not understand that modern feminism is a social movement borne out of critical gender theory, which is a branch of critical theory that examines the social construction of gender. For instance, what makes a man, a ?man, or a woman, a ?woman?, and the non discrete relationship between their performative elements. Many issues revolving around modern woman-ness include the subjugation through reproductive obligations, division of labor within the family and society, access to capital and intergenerational wealth, political agency, etc. Of course modern feminists (who know what they are talking about) do not dispute the reality that mostly men are in the prison system, they endure harsher penalties from the state, have higher suicide rates, are employed in more dangerous work conditions, lose custody battles at higher rates, etc. But feminists include these issues in the construction of man-ness too, and academics actively study root societal causes for these issues. They advocate against them! So in my mind, there is no reason to not be a feminist other than avoiding a label that has been propagandized by its political opponents.

  • CON

    Victories such as gaining the vote, the right to an...

    Feminism Has Plenty More To Achieve

    Feminism has no more battles left to fight. Victories such as gaining the vote, the right to an abortion(in most of the northern hemisphere) and the right to equal pay were important and worth winning. But given that sexual equality is now - rightly - enshrined and protected in law, there is nothing left for the feminist movement to do in most western countries. It may still be useful in parts of the world where women still lack basic democratic and other rights. However, in western society the feminist cause in no longer needed.

  • CON

    This critical strategy first emerged within the feminist...

    Feminism represents a small, privileged constituency of middle-class white women, who can afford to ...

    This critical strategy first emerged within the feminist movement itself, and was immediately recognised within the movement as a serious problem - which suggests that it should be aimed at certain feminists rather than at feminism as a whole. It points to the need for feminism to be a wider movement against inequality wherever it is found, rather than suggesting that it is no longer necessary.

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      BM25 score: 16.98
      feminism: 16.98
      conclusion: 4.96 (boost 1.50, idf 5.97, tfNorm 0.55)
      premises: 10.01 (idf 5.90, tfNorm 1.70)
      sourceText: 2.00 (boost 0.20, idf 4.68, tfNorm 2.14)