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Question Posted Thursday June 3 2004, 8:28 am

Regarding a recent response you gave, I have to ask what things like wanting a boyfriend, wearing bikinis and shaving your legs have to do with empowerment. I have a boyfriend. Does enjoying his company or valuing love and companionship mean that I can't actively support women's rights? I shave my legs (so does the boyfriend, actually), and like to look good. Does that mean that I value myself less, or let myself be oppressed? I thought feminism was about equality, and doing what YOU want to do... maybe it's really just about fitting into feminism's mold of what a woman should be instead of the patriarchy's.

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spacefem answered Friday June 4 2004, 8:00 am:
I didn't say that having a boyfriend excludes you from feminism, I said that living to impress guys and being obsessed with having a boyfriend means your priorities are misdirected. I have a boyfriend and shave my legs! Feminism is about equal rights - stop trying to read agendas into what I'm saying here. I get 7,000 questions from girls just wanting boyfriends - that to me is a sign that society is raising our women to base their existance on men and it's sad. If you see a cool guy and want to go out with him, more power to you, go out there and get him. Just don't sit at home thinking about how you can't live without a man. Single girls do just fine!

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