Aaspiringwriter’s Proposal
For my research essay I will be examining arguments presented against Modern Feminism. Feminism is a movement started with a goal to achieve social, political and educational equality of women with men. In recent years this movement has been able to draw a great attention from both sexes. While many choose to become feminists to support this movement, there has been a subsequent rise in anti-feminist’s who are with equality. It is evident that from time to time women have been subjected to not possess as equal caliber as men: physical and intellectual. But has feminism become more of a bad attitude and less of a positive movement? Inequality is faced by everyone regardless of their gender, race and color. The question is should feminists promote women as victims who are weak and vulnerable or should the focus be diverted to promote equality instead. Is feminism simply Hypocritical? Or did people misjudge the actual meaning of feminism?
In my research I found that women face a significant discrimination compared to men. Regardless of the social, economical or political status there are deep gender inequalities in many societies. Saudi Arabia prohibits women from driving. Countries like India and China Infanticides baby girls. They prefer a male child over a female child because of the dowry system and one-child policy. In U.S a women makes only 82 percent compared to her male friend working in the same field. In some countries women can’t even own a land, they don’t even have a right to initiate divorce. In-fact in many countries girls are banned from getting any education. Every single day hundreds of thousands of women faces violence, abuse and are raped, molested and humiliated. This gender discrimination is a real problem and not just a hoax. There are very few lucky people who haven’t seen it or faced it but it is still out there.
Aaspiringwriter’s Sources
1. WOMEN AGAINST FEMINISM: 26 PROVOCATIVE ARGUMENTS
The Essential Content of the Article: This article provides a counterintuitive approach to feminism. While it appreciates all the privileges feminism has brought for women all over the world. It also highlights and questions its true relevance with the 21st century female.
What it proves: Feminism is a movement to make women strong and independent, but somehow it is portraying women as victims.
The Essential Content of the Article: This article points out how feminism has helped to improve the position of women in society and why we still need to continue it.
What it proves: There are discriminations against women. It might have reduced to a certain extent but it is still there.
3. “Women’s work” and the gender pay gap
The Essential Content of the Article: This article gives an insight on how society provides unequal opportunities to women at every point of their career, training and education choices
What it proves: Gender wage gap is real. Due to suppressed earning it is harder for women to balance work and family.
4. Facts and Figures: Ending Violence against Women
The Essential Content of the Article: This article provides facts and figures for the violence happening against women all over the world and some preventive measures.
What it proves: Women are constantly abused both physically and sexually and there are very less initiatives undertaken to prevent it.
5. WHY FEMINISM CAN’T BE REPLACED BY EQUALISM OR HUMANISM.
The Essential Content of the Article: This article argues why a separate movement for women is necessary. A separate movement does not mean that feminists believe women are superior. But it is necessary because women are generally the underprivileged sex.
What it proves: Feminism isn’t only about women and their rights. Feminism is not about making men weak or women strong. It’s about giving everyone the power to be strong, ambitious, vulnerable, – based on their personalities and experiences, and regardless of their gender.
Rowan Counterintuitive 
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Paragraph 1.
What does this mean?:
And this:
I understand that you have a lot of questions you’d like answered, Aspirin, but your Proposal is where you provide answers, even if you’re guessing. The nature of these early investigations is that you’re unsure in your beliefs, you want to test your theories. But express them as theories, not as questions. You will discover them to be true or false. But for the time being, state them as true.
Paragraph 2.
I’m nervous that your plan is to catalogue the many ways women face discrimination around the world, Aspirin. It won’t make much of an essay. You’d be SO much better off narrowing your focus to concentrate on a seemingly very small matter that has global ramifications. What one story you read during your early research struck you as the most significant? Find that story and make it the emblem for your study.
I have an appointment to keep now, AspiringWriter. I’ll be back to look at your sources.
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You’ll certainly have to give something up, AW. The source regarding violence is completely out of place in an essay that in every other way is about women’s careers and pay equity. Students often worry that they won’t “be able to find enough material” to develop a narrow thesis, and admittedly, it’s harder than a “dump everything into the pot” approach, but in this class and any good writing class, the grades go to the authors who bear down on specific narrow theses and prove the heck out of them. You’ll be surprised how rich a specific thesis can be when developed from several angles. But get it narrow first.
You’re having trouble already handling your abstractions.
You offer this definition as an antidote to "humanism," but it could hardly be a better definition of humanism. Don't get bogged down in the generalities, AW. Stay close to the facts and they will keep you persuasive.
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