Feminists? Any here?

[Irulan]

I don't label myself a feminist because I think what it has become is a joke and insult to amazing women who actually broke ground for us. It seems now that calling yourself a feminist is an excuse to be a flippant b***h while expecting others to tolerate it. There seems to be an attitude that if one man pays you less, all men are to blame. A lot of two wrongs still not adding up to a right.

Thanks Smurf for hitting the nail on the head for me.

• How many women and girls suffer from anorexia and bulimia because they don't fit into the mainstream media's beauty idea?

Plenty of men suffer from it too, they just don't get the press that women do. What about the pressure to have great abs? Men who get 'roided out for pressure to get all muscular? Men have as much pressure these days as women do.

[*]How many welfare mom's get stereotyped over and over again for being bad mothers when the fathers receive little if any repercussions?[/LIST]

You haven't hear Bill Cosby rant about absent fathers lately?

[*]Why do we still disallow gay marriage in most of the country?[/LIST]

What does gay marriage have to do with feminism?

[*]Why is viagra covered under insurance, but birth control is not?[/LIST]

This is a broad brush statement that may or may not be true, depending on your coverage.

[*]Why are women continually objectified in all forms of media? We've started to think little of it because now more and more men are being objectified as well, but just because the objectification is becoming more uniform doesn't mean its still not wrong[/LIST]

to paraphrase...

Why are PEOPLE continually objectified in all forms of media?