No wonder there are so many damm wars and the world is such a mess. People can't even get along on a dating site. WOW!!!!!!!!

Betty, "you tell it like it is." I'm still chuckling. The topic was about women taking charge of their lives. Ladies be proud, we've come a long ways since the early 1900's. If you don't believe it you may need to do some research.

Good one!

I just find it so weird,men are here because they are looking for a woman. women are here cause they are looking for a man, yet they all start bashing each other. What the heck?????

Hmmm could be seeing a pattern forming here. Interesting.

What pattern?

Since the late 1960s, Gloria Steinem has been an outspoken champion of women's rights, engaged in the women's movement and feminism. In 2009 when she turned 75 she told the New York Daily News, "We've demonstrated that women can do what men do, but not yet that men can do what women do. That's why most women have two jobs-one inside the home and one outside it-which is impossible. The truth is that women can't be equal outside the home until men are equal in it."

wow, probably the only thing I ever heard from Gloria that I agree with.

men needed some work on themselves,, not just women,,,,in many ways we dug a hole for ourselves by not demanding more from them while trying to prove how 'equal' we all were,,,

DING DING DING! We have a winner!

But you left out the actual man hatred by feminists.

Let us not forget that:

"No, we don't believe that any woman should have this choice. No woman should be authorized to stay at home to raise her children. Society should be totally different. Women should not have that choice, precisely because if there is such a choice, too many women will make it." Simone de Beauvior

"Heterosexuality is a die-hard custom through which male-supremacist institutions insure their own perpetuity and control over us. Women are kept, maintained and contained through terror, violence, and the spray of semen...[Lesbianism is] an ideological, political and philosophical means of liberation of all women from heterosexual tyranny... " Cheryl Clarke, "Lesbianism, An Act of Resistance," in This Bridge Called My Back: Writing by Radical Women of Color, ed. Cherrie Moraga (Women of Color Press,1983), pp.128-137.

"I feel that 'man-hating' is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them."

Robin Morgan - former president of the National Organization for Women (NOW) and editor of MS magazine

"Romance is rape embellished with meaningful looks,"

Andrea Dworkin in the Philadelphia Inquirer, May 21, 1995.

"All men are rapists and that's all they are,"

Marilyn French Author, "The Women's Room" in People, February 20, 1983.

Men who are unjustly accused of rape can sometime gain from the experience,"

Catherine Comins, Vassar College Assistant Dean of Student Life in Time, June 3, 1991, p. 52.

"When a woman reaches orgasm with a man she is only collaborating with the patriarchal system, eroticizing her own oppression..."

Sheila Jeffrys

"Number 10: Regularly beat him on the head with your shoe."

"The more famous and powerful I get the more power I have to hurt men."

Sharon Stone On David Letterman presenting a top ten list of ways to keep your man.
*****

Yeah, feminists are GREAT dating material.

Not!

Some may say "They've come a long way Baby.."

The ones with more than two active brain cells think they taken several steps back.

And then they wonder why men don't step in front of bullets for them anymore..

I am a militant feminist, defined as such after discussing the rape culture, ....and I love men.

Ive discovered that there are men out there who hope to shame women into not being feminists, probably out of fear.

There are awesome men out there, and men who are not so very awesome.

I would only knowingly date the awesome ones. In my limited experience, some have turned out to be consistent in their awesomeness, while only one or two have revealed themselves as something else.

omg, thank you!

You should consider blogging.

What would Gloria Steinem think of the some of the profiles women write on internet dating sites? Go on POF and read profiles from women in Pennsylvania (or pick another state)and tell me what you think. Then you can ask yourself what would Gloria think of them?

Good thing I realize all women are not like that. Didn't mean to change the direction of this thread but Gloria's name came up. Before I left POF, I use that as a headline "What would Gloria Steinem think of your profile"? Do some first hand research. I wouldn't look for an article coming out on it, yet.

Just checking...