Theology IV

[Nurvingiel]

Originally Posted by brownjenkins

My point exactly.

Oh, oops?

On feminism, basically I feel that embracing one's skills and abilities is awesome. Embracing motherhood, for those of us who want to be mothers, is great. In the not so distant future, I will use my abilities as the female of my species to conceive and give birth to children (I hope), and then be the most awesome mom that I possibly can (I hope).

It's telling people what those skills and abilities are based on their secondary sexual characteristics what those abilities are exactly. Some physical ones, such as motherhood, are just inevitable. But I could also never beat Tonya Verbeek or Carol Huynh (Canada's medalists in freestyle wrestling) at their sport. Obviously, it's not because I'm a woman.

There are a lot of skills that have nothing to do with physical characteristics, so it seems odd to prescribe them by sex. A lot of traditionally male-dominated fields like being a doctor or a mechanic have nothing to do with sexual characteristics. But maybe the feminism Arien was describing doesn't exclude women doctors and mechanics anyway.

I hope this post is not too rambly. I'm quite tired.

EDIT: What I'm trying to get at is do what makes you feel comfortable, but I fail to see how telling others what should make them feel comfortable is helpful.