Who is the Real Feminist?

I saw a link on a href=”http://voxday.blogspot.com/2007/08/apparently-im-not-feminist.html”Vox Day’s blog/a to one of those silly quizzes that I often get suckered into taking for no other reason than curiosity or perhaps just procrastination from actual span style=”font-style:italic;”real /spanwork I should be doing. The quiz asked the question, “Are You a Feminist?” and if you are interested, here is my score:br /br /table width=350 align=center border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2trtd bgcolor=”#DDDDDD” align=centerfont face=”Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif” style=’color:black; font-size: 14pt;’bYou Are 91% Feminist/b/font/td/trtrtd bgcolor=”#FFFFFF”centerimg src=”http://images.blogthings.com/areyouafeministquiz/feminist-5.jpg” height=”100″ width=”100″/centerfont color=”#000000″br /You are a total feminist. This doesn’t mean you’re a man hater (in fact, you may be a man). You just think that men and women should be treated equally. It’s a simple idea but somehow complicated for the world to put into action./font/td/tr/tablediv align=”center”a href=”http://www.blogthings.com/areyouafeministquiz/”Are You a Feminist?/a/divbr /br /I was recently at a get-together of academics and ran into a “feminist professor” who was also a blogger. I guess she had read this blog because she immediately informed me that I was “not a feminist” before I even had a chance to find out what her idea of a feminist was. Apparently, her definition of an anti-feminist was “someone who does not agree with me!” Perhaps I should forward my score to her so I can “prove” I am a feminist, but then, what good would that do? br /br /Equality between men and women is no longer the real issue with many “feminists”–it is more about special rights for women without responsibilities (like trying a href=”http://drhelen.blogspot.com/2007/08/more-of-nanny-state.html”to get rid of the word bitch/a but not prick etc.), “empowerment” without the work that comes with actually doing anything, and allowing women to do things to men that if men did to women, would be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, you know, like a href=”http://drhelen.blogspot.com/2007/06/what-210-whole-days-in-jail-just-for.html”shoot them in the back while they sleep./a If that is the definition, count me out–that type of feminism sounds more like a Democratic political action committee than a real sense of justice between men and women. The idea of equality is not as simple as this quiz would have us believe, for in order to be truly equal, women must understand that they too, have the responsibility to see that equality extends both ways.