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Re: Is Feminism Really Un-african? by Nobody: 2:13pm On Nov 03, 2012 |
kikuyu1: [b]Feminism is what happens when a group of ugly frigid women invent a reason to externalise their neurotic anger.[/b]Even a child can see with a casual glance its internal contradictions,non sequiturs and displaced anger at its root. In Africa women had their roles and many societies were actually matriarchies. Women were always valued for their role;its only the overly Western exposed who think otherwise and demand American style ' Now this is absolutely not necessary. I am very proud of the women suffrage that aided in putting things to action. And in a bid to vilify Africans, let's not downplay some frightening roles women had to play. As much as we can cite examples of matrilineal superiority, most of Africa had obvious imbalance between the status of men and women. |
Re: Is Feminism Really Un-african? by Nobody: 2:24pm On Nov 03, 2012 |
shymexx: Our society? That is a cause that includes males? Naa. They won't be called feminists again but activists. Feminists fight for only causes affecting females. Unless you term the causes 'fight against female poverty', 'fight against bad governance to women', lol. As per my stand to this feminism issue, refer to this thread https://www.nairaland.com/109246/femininity-vs-feminism/2#1910496 |
Re: Is Feminism Really Un-african? by ifyalways(f): 9:18pm On Nov 03, 2012 |
After going through the thread, I think that black women are natural feminists,we don't need an official movement to assert that.I don't share an affinity with feminism because i believe it's devoid of what I think is the greatest strenght of black women : our ability to nurture ,raise and build strong families. Feminism works to reaffirm hierachy when it's supposed to be creating change.i can live with womanists,activisits but Feminists especially the radical ones. |
Re: Is Feminism Really Un-african? by Nobody: 2:21am On Nov 04, 2012 |
stillwater: It seems you don't understand my point, or probably I didn't articulate it succinctly enough... My point is that, if feminism equals to gender equality between male and female - why are African feminists not applying that ideology into activism, since it's MALE DOMINATED? African women of the past who fought for gender equality before "Feminism" were also at the forefront of fighting against social injustices in their communities, they never allowed the men to outdo them, why can't our modern day eurocentric feminists do the same? Perhaps, the ideology is only for lucrative purposes... If you want equality, let it be across the board, not just selective application of the ideology... Activism is male dominated, we also need EQUALITY in that field as well... |
Re: Is Feminism Really Un-african? by Nobody: 2:21am On Nov 04, 2012 |
ifyalways: After going through the thread, I think that black women are natural feminists,we don't need an official movement to assert that.I don't share an affinity with feminism because i believe it's devoid of what I think is the greatest strenght of black women : our ability to nurture ,raise and build strong families. Interesting... I concur. |
Re: Is Feminism Really Un-african? by kikuyu1(m): 5:52pm On Nov 06, 2012 |
stillwater:Womanism,feminism,female activism is all BS! Fyi,Switzerland only enacted women's voting in all cantons in,wait for it,the 1970s!! Were they starving or suffering as contemporary dogma would explain that situation? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage_in_Switzerland Investigate everything! African women aren't suffering due to their gender which I HAVE ALWAYS MAINTAINED. http://karanjazplace..com/2012/08/the-mahogany-princess.html That was traditional African culture. Are those women suffering in any way? Those false narratives are driven by the usual Euro misconceptions conceived in underlying racism. |
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