Those of you who saw the recent comments made by Karl Stefanovik on the Today Show regarding feminism will understand that there is much work to be done in this country when it comes to this philiosophy. Sure it’s all fine and dandy to sit here and say ‘yeah, we’re good now, let’s abandon the idea of feminism,’ but the reality is we’re not ‘all good now.’ The reality is so far from this.
Don’t take my word for it, but there is still considerable amounts of inequality in the workplace. We still don’t have a standard for paid maternity leave, for example. Like Mia Freedman and Lisa Wilkinson so bashfully pointed out: the feminism of the ‘60’s paved the way for what we have today, and we still have a long way to go.
But you want to know my idea of optimal equality?
A journalist and a female in the public eye like Mia Freedman being able to comment on someone else’s personal identification with feminism without being bombarded with ignorance of an almost angrily defensive quality from the opposite gender.
Oh well, I guess ignorance and idiocy will always exist in the public sphere. I will personally never abandon the ‘F’ word, or any feminists before me because they are reason I have the right to voice my opinions as I do now.
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