What is the first thing that pops into your head when you think of a Feminist?

To me, a feminist is someone who wants a fair playing ground between men and women. They're not hateful male-bashers. They're just people who want women to have a fair chance at opportunities and respect. They also want to get rid of negative portrayals of women that hurt our reputations and our self-esteem.

For me feminism means to shun the prievelage we get as women and stand equal to men. I have observed some women fighting for ladies seat in a bus and same very women fighting for equal rights.That is hypocrisy to me.

I think the first thing is searching for equality. I think abuses of the past. I think the way we think and promote the difference in the sexes. I think of raising my children (two girls). I wonder if it makes a difference for my grandchildren. I think of where women used to be in the past. I am a man raised by a divorced mother with two siblings. I felt the pain of inequality.

I think of feminists as people who are trying to break stereotypes but ended up making a new one.

To me a feminist is a person who believes in awarding women the same rights men have always had. Feminists believe that women have always been people, though they were not able to vote in my own country until about 90 years ago. Feminists believe in equality for both genders. Feminists don't want to demean men, or bring them down, they want to RAISE women to stand where men have stood for millions of years.

Unfortunately I think of something negative. I'm a guy, so that could be the reason. Feminist means someone who is trying to promote women's rights at the expense of men's rights. Or a feminist will attack males for "oppresing females". It shouldn't be like that but there are some extremists who have created a negative bubble around that world.

I am a woman but I think the feminist movement wants too much. We are no longer as before when women cannot even vote for now we have the right of suffrage, we can now be employed, etc.

The statement that there is no true statement is necessarily false. That is to say the bogusness of post-modernism and other forms of reletivism. Whilst appriciating that there is nothing essential to tghe core of feminism in such lack of authenticity, still it is the first assosiation I make, perhaps because feminism has become, a kind of emotional word of power, than a something to which all might adhere. all the best urban

I feel really bad saying this but I am only 23 so its notl ike I was here when feminism was all new. I think of hairy armpits and lesbians and stuff. I'm not anti-feminism but that is just what pops into my head. I imagine feminists probably done alot to pave the way for me, being female and all that but the actual word has had alot of negativity attached to it.