Blog #2

I think that young women today embrace feminism in a different way than the women of the 1970's and before did.  I think that women today are not as radical in there views.  An example of this that has been going through my head during the readings was about woman on the Titanic in 1912.  The motto after the Titanic sank was ruffly, votes for women is the cry, boats for women was the cry; meaning that women shouldn't have the right to vote because they expect men to give up their lives for them, and that if we were to give up chivalry the world would be beyond repair.  Some feminists said that it should have been equal and that women shouldn't have been put on the life boats because it didn't matter whether it was a male or female.  This kind of seemingly radical thinking doesn't particularly come through today.  Another example of why women today embrace feminism in a different way now than in the 70's and before is that women don't feel the need to have protests and burn their bras.  I think now they have more of a dialectic approach to the subject instead of a radical, group minded, protest oriented approach like that of the 70's.  They can talk about what bothers them and what they feel about certain subjects, and people will actually listen to them because their views aren't as radical and are more logical.  It is also easier for women now because they also didn't have to fight for the previous rights and changes in attitudes towards women, so they don't need to be as radical.