Personally, I have a very one sided opinion when it comes to feminism, I think that it is a joke, at least in its modern form. 30-40 years ago when Rosa Parks was refusing to move from her seat on the bus, and all those women marching in Washington, really showed how women wanted to advance themselves; that was a very respectful form of women protesting for their rights and what they wanted. Today you get people like Paris Hilton and people like that who claim to be feminists, but all they really do is degrade women everywhere. Their version of acting out is to expose themselves in public, and to sexually exploit everyone that they come in contact with. Honestly, whoever idolizes that type of feminist deserves to be hit over the head and taken to the nearest therapist, because aside from the head trauma from getting hit in the head, they need to find a way to get over their obsession with bad role models. This image of a "strong" women nowadays is apparently a women who is willing to do stupid, regrettable actions that get them attention. The true idols for women should be strong humanitarians of both the present and the past, such as Rosa Parks, Susan B. Anthony (one of the only women on current US currency)
, Abigail Adams, Melinda Gates (wife of Bill Gates, who like Paris Hilton is also a billionaire, but she is truly as strong, positive influence for women). I think that are who young girls today should be looking up to, not; as to quote South Park, "Stupid, spoiled, *people*." (everyone who knows what I'm talking about knows what this quote really is, I just can't write it because this is a school blog) These women, such as Paris, Brittany, and whoever else girls stupidly idolize today, just make women seem to be a joke to the rest of the world, and they give the idea of women having equal rights a bad name. As politically incorrect as this seems, if the Paris Hilton idea of feminism became nationally recognized then all women should be locked up in cages in order to prevent them from doing things that will shame themselves and their families. If women want to be treated equal to men then they have to be able to learn that they must be able to be considered as responsible as the more respectful men in the world are; otherwise they should just admit that they (as said by Carlos Mencia, who I hate to be quoting but he is actually right this time), "don't want to be treated like men, they just want to be paid like men." All in all, I think that feminism has the potential to be a good thing, but only if the right views of feminism are followed.Feminism plays a large role in the Shakespearean play Macbeth. Lady Macbeth, the wife of Macbeth, is a huge example of a women having power. She is one of the most influential people in the entire play, and she was the reason that Macbeth was convinced to murder King Duncan, who had been an ally of Macbeth's. Lady Macbeth definitely shows the strong qualities that are exhibited in all real feminist leaders today.
