Blog #2

When it comes to Feminists, there are a wide variety of stereotypes associated with them. Many people I have spoken about feminism believed that they were sexists against men. All feminists wanted women to conquer over men yet it was interesting that men I asked stuck to the social norms of being a man or woman. Any woman I asked made it obvious that they wanted equality, but none of them ever gave me an example beyond sexism.
Trying to define feminism seemed like a mystery when one reads about radical feminism that is only a cover for addressing homosexuality or about socialist feminism that considers women rights to be fundamental to the equality of the human race, but feminism is one category of general equality for all men and women to live in world of equal opportunity. Someone who is mindful of the equal opportunity rights of women who understands opportunity has no limits in a world made of institutionally constructed realities.
Do I define myself as a feminist? I respect what each individual woman wants to define herself as in this world. I believe there are necessary changes that need to happen in government, capitalism, media, etc. for in the very least America to give equal opportunity to women and any way I could assist in that I would be delighted. However, I can not say that I am perfect. However mindful I may be though, sooner or later I will have advanced over a woman because of the system we currently have. I have guilty for this, but it being an institution how can an individual help themselves? It is a part of live to be selfish occasionally. Do not get me wrong though, it is only an accident because I only think about winning in the heat of the moment and not your race, creed, gender, sexual orientation. It must be the last bit of the capitalist in me that I accept as a part of me.
Johnson's chapter titled "Capitalism, Class, and the Matrix of Domination is self explanatory. For equality to exist for the entire human race, capitalism is not an effective institution. It fails miserably in distribute of wealth which is fundamental to the equal opportunity of all people. "The richest top 20 percent of all households receives 56 percent of [America's gross domestic income (GDI)] ...and the richest 40 percent receives 78 percent, leaving less than a quarter of all income to be divided among the remaining 60 percent of all households (p.44). Therefore even though the Soviet Union was a failed state for their application of communism, Karl Marx is fundamentally correct in theory on what the world needs economically for equal opportunity.