Feminsim reaches a more mainstream forum with Daisy Garnett's article in this months Vogue magazine, she argues the case of whether post feminsim really is feminism or just an example of women perpetuating their own inequality...
....the more I think about it, the more I realise that far from feminism being merely taken for granted, something much more frightening is happening. We women no longer need men to treat us as little more than sex objects. We are doing it, even paying for it ourselves."
The plastic surgery industry is booming, now there are even adverts in tube stations for 'alignments and improvements'. Women feel that they are enpowering themselves by 'owning' their own sexuality and attempting to control the aspersions cast upon them from their appearance. but does that really make it feminsim, just because we feel we are allowing it to happen? Surely it is not an issue of control.
By attempting to have it all- career, beauty, family etc- are we really gaining equality or just too busy to notice we are being taken for a ride? Many women spend a fortune on beauty products, the latest fashions and accessories as well as working 60 hours a week and then going home to do the domestic routine and childcare. But actually this is not equal to the experiences of men, yes they are becoming more fashion and beauty conscious (feeling the same pressures women have felt for years) and yes we work the same hours, but no we generally do not earn the same money and generally they separate themselves from domestic responsibility. By attempting to have it all have we gone to far? Do we as a society have domestic duties so ingrained as a female occupation that even women expect it of themselves yet, seeing themselves as equal in the workplace and overlooking the inequality in their home life?
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2006-07-25 @ 09:25