The dreaded "F" word...

Ayy yo,

Ladies!  Ladies!  Are there any Feminists in the house? 

Yeah I said it - Feminist.  Ya know... Feminist.  Not necessarily women who are LGBTs or grown girls rocking baggy jeans, numerous earrings and man-tats, hoodies, and multi-color dreads (shout out to Baltimore, DC, and Brooklyn).  I'm talking real honest to goodness feminist who believe in tackling the struggles of female issues like, for example, the proverbial glass ceilings for women and minorities in corporate America, or the ones fighting the feeling of being forced somehow to pay attention to their own biological clocks in order to produce a child or two, and of course the ones fighting for the liberation from the unwritten rule that a woman has to have a man (her own and not that sharing **** that goes on, on the low). 

Ya know... Feminists, who at one time in America were considered the single most threat to our nation's way of life (circa 1977) but somehow auto-magically not anymore.   Fast forward to today and what is the single most threat to our nation's way of life.  Well that depends.  If you listen to certain political pundits they'll say hands down two things: 1. Obama - without a clue as to what's wrong with him other than his being black, and 2. (conjuring up a Jesse Helms accent here) For'ners. 

But I digress...    

Have the feminists all packed up and gone home?  Did the "burning of the bra movement" achieve all of the goals that it set out to achieve?.  How can we as a people, black, white, or For'ner, really think that things have changed for women if the base cause is still worth fighting for?  For example, if a woman is harrassed xesually at her job the men  hearing about it will collectively assume that she's either lying or will feign sympathy and tell her to make sure she has all of the incidents well-documented and signed before they will take her seriously enough to give her a form to fill out against her harrasser.  WTF?!   Also, in that same example, some women  will get all catty and **** behind her back and say things like, "No wonder.  Look at how she dresses...  Those short skirts and low-cut blouses aren't exact sending the right message there, Sweetie..."

I say bring back the feminists and the feminist movement.  I'm talking about the radical ones that believe in fighting the good fight for all of the right reasons.  Like the ones who were down for changing common English language words from, say, Policeman to Police officers, or Fireman to firefighter, or deeper still Spokesman to Spokesperson.  There's still some work to be done.  What say you, BAF?  Holla atcha boy.

I think that considering yourself the " F" word nowadays is pointless considering how a mass majoirty of women in society, regardless of race, don't even repect themselves let alone care about what feminists stand for.