I do apologise.

Post-feminist society - surely a misnomer. Was there ever a time when feminism commanded a majority? “I’ll be Post-Feminist in a Post-Patriarchy.” (http://www.now.org/store/images/items/bs-pfpp.jpg)

“Post-feminist? You say that like feminism was a BAD thing!”

Post-feminist? You mean JBL men have found something new to look at? ([Link removed at author's request])

Individuals who have sufficient power might identify as ‘post-feminist’, i.e. disengaged from issues of disadvantage; this is not particularly a reason to respect their luck or achievement, nor to assume that it is shared by society at large. (e.g. http://mamaneedsabookcontract.blogspot.com/2007/08/ill-be-post-feminist-in-post-patriarchy.html)

But a few women have become radical and they are too difficult for relationships. I broke up with a post-feminist woman , who doesn’t want to accept responsibilities for her behavior or actions. It is really surprising that post feminists ( some of them) are too difficult and yet present themselves as “victims” . What i realized is that I would be happy with a woman who is feminine rather than a feminist , who is caring and respectable and who can be my equal in every way i can think of.

Most post feminist woman are like the ones in the tv show “sex and the city” . Many have them have been “used” by men.Women have begun to think its ok to be promiscuous ( remember they are liberated and free to choose who they will have sex with) and such women are likely to be single moms of the future … whose kids are going to be fucked up..and its going to be a cycle.

Women are superior than men in many areas where men wont match up to them . Nature created women and assigned the role of a caregiver to women, who give birth , take care of young and other people. Women also have more empathy compared to men.

I think in today’s world , women are increasingly mislead by post-feminist propaganda that they are oppressed and so on, thus driving them away from their primary role of a caregiver as they were since 100000 BC or earlier. This system won’t work and will fail sooner or later as its against the laws of nature. I would be interested to hear others’ opinions.

There’s a book you want. It’s called Privilege, Power, and Difference and it has a pretty good explanation for where privilege originates in a social setting. The author’s name is Allan G. Johnson (yes, a straight white guy, writing about social inequality — imagine that!) and I’m betting it’s either at your local library or your local bookstore.

tekanji,

Further thoughts: it sounds vaguely like an insult. I keep catching the title of this post and find myself wanting to type back furiously, “your face is post-feminist”. Although I like Eric’s explanation best, I think; it makes more sense in a futuristic fictional context.

Nic: Post-feminism and the concept of privilege are only tangentially linked, so I think it would be off-topic to try to discuss it there. As for another post either here or there about the origins of privilege… while I think it’s a great idea, unfortunately I think to do that would require research more suited to academia, or the very least research by someone with access to an academic library.

I’d compare it to a construction like “post-Marvel comics”, “post-Copernican”, “post-Civil Rights” or yes, “post-democracy”, which doesn’t mean to me “after democracy has gone away”.

I’d never thought of it before as an anti-feminist smack-down, but I can see how one (well, many) would.

Like I said, I’m working on a post for the feminism 101 blog about this, which will go into more detail about the origins and ideology of the movement.