Feminism - what is it?

[Grub]

.... interesting exam at school in a Geography paper where I had to write an essay on the point of view of main geographical locations from the point of view of a feminist. (What a female thinks of the CBD, Local Village etc. etc.) Unfortunately ..

You are kidding ... aren't you? What on god's earth does that have to do with Geography since feminism is a political movement

[Grahameeboy]

shit then I must be damn cute, because I am accused of being an opinionated bitch often!

I have a few thoughts on this... might take the time to write them down later.

However I find it sad when a woman is proud and strong in her ways and feels there should be no "separation" in people no matter what their gender the next thing she is accused of being a feminist.

Im not a feminist.

I belive in equality no matter what gender/religion/physicality/what the fuck ever other compartment you want to put someone in...

I agree, what ever happened to men and women being people eh?

I think that Feminism probably stemmed from Emily Pankhurst who ran in front of some horses and it has since been expanded a bit.

A bit like 'Partner'. Was used by Gay couples in the 70's to get around things when Gays were not so acceptable as they are now and is now used by Hetrosexuals...what ever happened to 'Girlfriend'

[jrandom]

... what ever happened to 'Girlfriend'

I don't think anything happened to it; last time I checked, both you and I had one...

[Grahameeboy]

No way. Differences are good.

Only if those differences are accepted.

[jrandom]

... they're really useful for getting into tight spaces.

Oh my!

[Hitcher]

what ever happened to 'Girlfriend'

I'm currently running the latest version of GirlFriend and I have been having some problems lately. I have been running the same version of DrinkingBuddies 1.0 forever as my primary application, and all the Girlfriend releases I have tried have always conflicted with it. I hear that Drinking Buddies runs fine as long as Girlfriend is ran in background mode and the sound is turned off.

Unfortunately, I can't find the switch to turn the sound off. Therefore, I have to run both of them separately. Girlfriend also seems to have a problem coexisting with my Golf program, often trying to abort Golf with some form of timing incompatibilities.

I probably should have stayed with Girlfriend 1.0, but I thought I might see better performance from GirlFriend 2.0. After months of conflicts and other problems, I consulted a friend who has had experience with Girlfriend 2.0. He said I probably didn't have enough cache to run Girlfriend 2.0 and eventually it would require a Token Ring to run properly. He was right, as soon as I purged my cache, and realized that no one in their right mind is installing new token rings, Girlfriend 2.0 uninstalled itself.

Shortly after that, I installed Girlfriend 3.0 beta. Unfortunately, there was a bug in the program and the first time I used it, it gave me a virus. I had to clean out my whole system and shut down for a while. I very cautiously upgraded to Girlfriend 4.0. This time I used SCSI probe first and also installed a virus protection program. It worked okay for a while until I discovered that GirlFriend 1.0 was still in my system. I tried running Girlfriend 1.0 again with Girlfriend 4.0 still installed, but Girlfriend 4.0 has a feature I didn't know about that automatically senses the presence of any other version of Girlfriend and communicates with it in some way. This results in the immediate removal of both versions.

The version I have now works pretty well, but there are still some problems. Like all versions of GirlFriend, it is written in some obscure language I can't understand, much less reprogram. Frankly, I think there is too much attention paid to the look and feel rather than the desired functionality.

Also, to get the best connections with your hardware, you usually have to use gold-plated contacts and I have never liked how GirlFriend is “object-oriented.”

A year ago a friend of mine upgraded his version of Girlfriend to GirlFriendPlus 1.0, which is a Terminate and Stay Resident version of GirlFriend. He discovered that GirlFriendPlus 1.0 expires within a year if you don't upgrade to Fiance 1.0. So he did, but soon after that, he had to upgrade to Wife 1.0, which he describes as a huge resource hog. It has taken up all his space: He can't load anything else. One of the primary reasons he decided to go with Wife 1.0 was because it supposedly came bundled with a feature called FreeSex Plus.

Well, it turns out the resource requirements of Wife 1.0 sometimes prohibits access to FreeSexPlus, particularly the new Plug-ins he wanted to try. On top of that, Wife 1.0 must be running on a well warmed-up system before he can do anything. Although he did not ask for it, Wife 1.0 came with MotherInLaw which has an automatic pop-up feature he can't turn off. I told him to trying installing Mistress 1.0, but he said he heard if you try to run it without first uninstalling Wife 1.0, Wife 1.0 will delete MSMoney files before uninstalling itself. Then Mistress 1.0 won't install because of insufficient resources.

P.S. Watch out for the K-I-D-S virus because they have an insatiable appetite for memory and CPU time over and above everything else above.

[Grahameeboy]

I don't think anything happened to it; last time I checked, both you and I had one...

But I was asleep!!

But seems these days the use of 'My Partner' is universal

[Blue Velvet]

Only if those differences are accepted.

Or appreciated.

[Grahameeboy]

I'm currently running the latest version of GirlFriend and I have been having some problems lately. I have been running the same version of DrinkingBuddies 1.0 forever as my primary application, and all the Girlfriend releases I have tried have always conflicted with it. I hear that Drinking Buddies runs fine as long as Girlfriend is ran in background mode and the sound is turned off.

Unfortunately, I can't find the switch to turn the sound off. Therefore, I have to run both of them separately. Girlfriend also seems to have a problem coexisting with my Golf program, often trying to abort Golf with some form of timing incompatibilities.

I probably should have stayed with Girlfriend 1.0, but I thought I might see better performance from GirlFriend 2.0. After months of conflicts and other problems, I consulted a friend who has had experience with Girlfriend 2.0. He said I probably didn't have enough cache to run Girlfriend 2.0 and eventually it would require a Token Ring to run properly. He was right, as soon as I purged my cache, and realized that no one in their right mind is installing new token rings, Girlfriend 2.0 uninstalled itself.

Shortly after that, I installed Girlfriend 3.0 beta. Unfortunately, there was a bug in the program and the first time I used it, it gave me a virus. I had to clean out my whole system and shut down for a while. I very cautiously upgraded to Girlfriend 4.0. This time I used SCSI probe first and also installed a virus protection program. It worked okay for a while until I discovered that GirlFriend 1.0 was still in my system. I tried running Girlfriend 1.0 again with Girlfriend 4.0 still installed, but Girlfriend 4.0 has a feature I didn't know about that automatically senses the presence of any other version of Girlfriend and communicates with it in some way. This results in the immediate removal of both versions.

The version I have now works pretty well, but there are still some problems. Like all versions of GirlFriend, it is written in some obscure language I can't understand, much less reprogram. Frankly, I think there is too much attention paid to the look and feel rather than the desired functionality.

Also, to get the best connections with your hardware, you usually have to use gold-plated contacts and I have never liked how GirlFriend is “object-oriented.”

A year ago a friend of mine upgraded his version of Girlfriend to GirlFriendPlus 1.0, which is a Terminate and Stay Resident version of GirlFriend. He discovered that GirlFriendPlus 1.0 expires within a year if you don't upgrade to Fiance 1.0. So he did, but soon after that, he had to upgrade to Wife 1.0, which he describes as a huge resource hog. It has taken up all his space: He can't load anything else. One of the primary reasons he decided to go with Wife 1.0 was because it supposedly came bundled with a feature called FreeSex Plus.

Well, it turns out the resource requirements of Wife 1.0 sometimes prohibits access to FreeSexPlus, particularly the new Plug-ins he wanted to try. On top of that, Wife 1.0 must be running on a well warmed-up system before he can do anything. Although he did not ask for it, Wife 1.0 came with MotherInLaw which has an automatic pop-up feature he can't turn off. I told him to trying installing Mistress 1.0, but he said he heard if you try to run it without first uninstalling Wife 1.0, Wife 1.0 will delete MSMoney files before uninstalling itself. Then Mistress 1.0 won't install because of insufficient resources.

P.S. Watch out for the K-I-D-S virus because they have an insatiable appetite for memory and CPU time over and above everything else above.

I was going to check your grammar but it would have taken too long....

[kiwifruit]

I'm currently running the latest version of GirlFriend and I have been having some problems lately..........

Classic!

[Number One]

I'm currently running the latest version of GirlFriend and I have been having some problems lately. I have been running the same version of DrinkingBuddies 1.0 forever as my primary application, and all the Girlfriend releases I have tried have always conflicted with it. I hear that Drinking Buddies runs fine as long as Girlfriend is ran in background mode and the sound is turned off.

An oldie but a goodie - nice!

[Grahameeboy]

Or appreciated.

I guess it depends whether there is a need for appreciation, if that makes sense

[Trudes]

The only reason that I'm happy to think of myself as a 'feminist' is that I'm very bloody happy some women decided, "to hell with being told what I can and can't do, I'm a person, not a possession or an animal", got out of the kitchen and fought for the right for herself, other women and millions of women in the future's right to have freedoms and choices they never had before, and yes, I'm very proud that they did this.
I do not deny that some of what has happened in the name of feminism is unfortunate for men and women and there are a lot of confused people out there. However I liken it to some of the racial issues in NZ. It is not every white person in NZ's fault that 200 years ago white people came to NZ and may or may not have given Maori a raw deal on some stuff, but many white people in NZ feel they are blamed for it, are still paying for it and accused of being oppressors. Hey, I wasn't there, neither were any of my ancestors, why am I getting accused?
I say I identify with the feminist ideology, however I don't hate men, and I don't blame all men for all the problems of the world, I do however think we are very lucky in NZ that women here do have equal rights and choices, but lets not forget that not every woman in the world has the same luxury, there are still many cultures that treat women like possessions or a slab of meat, and if there is any part of you that thinks that is wrong, then maybe you have slight feminist tendencies also... :shut-up:
JMO

[jrandom]

The only reason that I'm happy to think of myself as a 'feminist'...

Yes, you're the perfect height, too.

*pat pat*

[ManDownUnder]

Or appreciated.

EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's the guts of it for me.