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    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  

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    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.

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    The use of a woman’s body solely for the purpose of...

    The overwhelming trend of feminism is against prostitution.

    The radical feminist school that emerged in the 1990s supports the orthodoxy that prostitution leads to the objectification of women. The use of a woman’s body solely for the purpose of sexual gratification does not treat them as a person. This lack of respect dehumanises both prostitute and client, and does not represent a victory for either sex.

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