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Professional feminists' of Poland meet-up [631]
The two-fisted, mannish but man-hating feminists have covered the justified quest for equal rights with a negative image and odium not everyone likes to equate with.
And again, the tactic of associating feminists with those images worked on many people, for the same reason dim-witted public accepts and perpetuates the unhealthy image of women.
But that is not reality.
Most women I know are feminists, even if they don't know it.
My mother, for example. Both of my parents were working engineers, but it is my mother that always did all the food shopping, preparing, cleaning, taking us for all appointments and staying with us when we were sick. My father, occasionally did a dish, but only if it was fun, and he got enough attention. I could bet my life that he never brushed a toilet.
And she would have loved to have the satisfaction of fixing the car, or be the driver on family's vacation, but then.. what would he do??
She did all her duties beautifully, until the day she did not have to take care of us kids. That day she walked away and started a new life.
And now, whenever she feels even a little bit melancholy, she looks back just to remind herself how bad it could be, and she appreciates her life anew.