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Originally Posted by thewall91
If feminism is overplayed, it can definitely get annoying. I like a lot of things that feminists seem to hate.
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Well, I fall in line with Kierkegaard, reaping the benefits of his wisdom. To clarify, he, however, did live in a time when Women's Rights was referred to as "The Woman Issue" or even "The Woman Problem" and women were struggling for rights. Russia had a myriad of questions to answer: issue of the Serfs and Women's Rights (including the right to own property) and also what the hell the people wanted the government to be. (This is a good part of why Dostoyevsky is unique in fiction). (Ibsen is hip too). France and other European nations paved the way for labor laws, industrial regulation and unions, women's rights, human rights...the list goes on and on...
Kierkegaard fully supported equal rights and the concern at hand which was women's right to vote. But, Kierkegaard was also wary of some eventual aspects of the movement's accomplishment and fruition. Namely, he was concerned that women would take upon the ego and self of men and in the process, lose an invaluable part of their femininity. Kierkeegard, who through Jesus' very-Eastern (actually) philosophy, was expressing what the Taoists did, and that is: The integrity of Yin and Yang should be natural.