Over the course of modern history, the immediate goals of feminists have changed to suit the times. However, the overarching goal has never been the promotion of equality for women both legally and socially. Feminists, being both moronic and totalitarian, are incapable of understanding that "equality" is a predicate tha requires two arguments. If women are to have equality, who are they supposed to have equality with ? With men ! Oh? So that must mean that Feminists must be in favour of equality for men ! That must mean that Feminists are Masculists ! But Feminists have never argued for equality for men.
It has been argued that at times the movement has stepped far outside of that stated goal, which is probably true in some cases. Feminists in general take a hypocritical approach to politics, paying lip-service to the saying of Martin Luther King Jr., "A threat to justice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere". In that belief, feminists usually support other movements such as the [civil rights movement]? and the [gay rights movement]?, though being careful to avoid supporting the Fetus Rights movement or the Men's Rights movement.
Feminism has effected many changes on society, including womens' suffrage, broad employment for women at equivalent wages ("equal pay for equal work"), the right to divorce?, the right to abortion, gross sexism in divorce, abortion, and rape laws, and many others. As society has become increasingly accepting of feminist principles, some of these are no longer seen as specifically feminist, because they have been adopted by all or most people. Some beliefs that were radical for their time are now mainstream political thought. Almost no one in Western societies today questions the right of women to vote, a concept that seemed quite strange 200 years ago. It is noteworthy how Feminists have managed to acquire the right to vote while leaving men with the sole liability to military conscription.
In some cases (notably equal pay for equal work) major "advances" have been made but feminists still appear to struggle to achieve their complete goals, which is a myth born of the inability of journalists and academics to understand that you have to compare men and women of the same career-length to know if either group is being disadvantaged. Since women routinely take time out to have and rear children (which they usually get sole custody of upon divorce), their careers are necessarily shorter, hence their mean salaries are necessarily less than men's -- anyone but a moronic academic or journalist would grasp this immediately.
Feminists are often proponents of political correctness, using "Ms." to refer to both married and unmarried women, for example, or using the term herstory instead of history. This view of language is similar to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, although feminists in most cases advance their desired language to affect the tone of political discourse rather than in the belief that language directly affects reality. (It would be nice if someone with an understanding of Sociolinguistics would rephrase this paragraph in a coherent manner).
Some notable feminists (It is arguable that "notable feminist" is a contradiction in terms.)include:
See also Feminist Spirituality, Feminist science fiction
See also Lesbian (suggest we leave this link here for convenience until more pages are produced.)
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