fanfly I consider myself a feminist and this is [i]not[/i] what feminism is.

Master24 Checkmate.

AWarnerS Ya know what, stop fighting against men! It pisses us all off, and this isn't even the right place to put it! Even though I'm not a feminist, I know this isn't what feminism really is.

GIVMEKINGJULIEN Wow, even one of my comments are in there, I don't understand what is to hate so badly about men. God made man and women to walk beside and accompany each other, if men have treated you badly, that's your story. It's called forgivness, I thought all of this was taken care of in the 90's, I agree women are put down in some ways, but we should be able to live in peace. God put us on this earth for purposes and it was not to hate the opposite sex, everyone has a belief, and I won't judge you for yours. But atleast think before you act. When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. --Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world. He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands. He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers. He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislature. He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation: For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states: For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world: For imposing taxes on us without our consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury: For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses: For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule in these colonies: For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments: For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare, is undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have we been wanting in attention to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends. We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor. New Hampshire: Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton Massachusetts: John Hancock, Samual Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry Rhode Island: Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery Connecticut: Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott New York: William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris New Jersey: Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark Pennsylvania: Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross Delaware: Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean Maryland: Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton Virginia: George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton North Carolina: William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn South Carolina: Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton Georgia: Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton Source: The Pennsylvania Packet, July 8, 1776

Bond_Of_Fury I'm sure you're not the enemy, but you are definetly acting sort of hostile. You are one of the few women who's actually still mad about something that happened almost 100 years ago, you know that? It looks like you're stuck in the 40's. Things are much different now. Give it a rest.

badasses Lol what?! Who are you to judge people in here and tell them what to do?!! I didn't put my ass icon to impress guys in here ok? It's because what it says on it not because of the picture anyway I don't have to explain myself to you because you're just being a jerk. I fight for women rights but I don't hate men like you do. It's not the right way, you're being racist and sexist. And news flash women have rights now I have rights so I don't need to fight. We're in the top already.

badasses Oh and I wanted to say this you make me sick.

feminist-sowhat Like I said, you only think that's what feminism is, but it's not. I've looked up the treatment of women my whole life. that's all i was allowed to do when i wasn't cooking and cleaning. how the hell do you know that I've never been oppressed?

Lunalovely ^ I mean never like how women were before. If you ARE treated like how woman were before, then I'm sorry I was wrong on that,and I feel bad for you, but I still don't take back anything else i said

Tamar20 The wall.

MusicMaker95 GIVMEKINGJULIEN, amen!!! I think you've gone off your rocker. I also think feminists have done a ton of damage and need to shut up already.

GIVMEKINGJULIEN Woohoo! :D

Lunalovely @MusicMaker feminists have done DAMAGE? Please explain how women fighting for women's rights have done damage. feminist-sowhat is not a feminist. Feminists beleive that MEN and WOMEN are EQUAL. Thats all we've been trying to do for the past 100 years. To make this world fair for both genders. Whats the problem with that?

_2-D_ dear god you sound like a female adolf hitler. chillxio woman god damn -.-

_2-D_ btw im a married man i have two dughters who i love so very much. i love my wife and i tell her every single night. i play with my little five year old girl and play with her and her barbies. and my oldest daughter i help her homework with. me and my wife sit down and try to help her step by step because she is in special education at school. and i work two jobs supporting my family. my wife works too at night and when she comes home in the morning im ready to kiss her and make her coffe and talk about how her night at her job went. im a man who respects my family. most of them are woman and i love them very much so you need to think twice on what your ranting about here because us men work too. i work two count them TWO jobs and my wife works one. so nice try.

cassie-1-2-3 Haha, when I first read this, I did imagine some lady atop a platform with her fist reached out, shouting down at the crowd, surrounded by devastating fires and guards, just how I imagine Hitler.

Lunalovely @ _2-D_ Well I'm glad you actually care and have respect for women, but I don't like it when someone finds what I beleive in to be bad. Everybody who beleives men and women are equal in life is a feminist, whether they do anything about it or not is their choice. And how am I like Hitler? Hitler was all about how one race is greater than all the rest, I'M all about equality. Equality in gender, race and sexual preference.

youknowit101 I'm pretty sure he wasn't talking to you.

_2-D_ yea i was talking to the person who wrote the article

Lunalovely Woops, sorry about that. Though you're right. She sounds kinda insane

_2-D_ thank you :)

KissOfDoom Wow, people like you are the ones that give feminism a bad name. That's why some women say "I'm not a feminist" because they think feminism is what you decribe. It's NOT. Feminists don't hate men, they want to be equal with them, just like any self-respecting woman. Please realize that.

superwalrus Feminism IS about being created equal. Why would we make the same mistake they did?! Most everything's alright now, and an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. NO one has it easier. God didn't create men and women so one could be better than the other. Remember African slavery??? What would you think if black people just suddenly enslaved white people? You are making a big stereotype out of everyone. Plus, it's our ancestors who did most of what you were talking about... not us. Don't be ridiculous. Feminism is about equality, not dominance.

superwalrus And by the way, I am female as well!!! Reported.

cassie-1-2-3 I don't think it makes sense to report an article just because you disagree with it..