Feminism

I just finished the book, "Are Men Necessary?" by Maureen Dowd. I strongly urge anyone interested in gender politics to read it, or at least the first and last chapters.
Just to clarify, men are necessary. And I didn't really need to read the book to figure that out. But it did bring to light a couple of issues that I have been struggling with myself:

1. The idea of feminism taking a swing back the glory of the 1950's way of life. The whole idea of the happy homemaker and more and more women looking to change their name and start a family.
2. That plastic surgery has taken a 500 percent increase in the last five years. Women and paying more money and spending more time obsessing about their looks. how can we say that we (women) should be treated equally in the workforce, when you (women) are obviously showing men that we still rely on our looks and care about what other people think of us. Seems unproductive to me.
3. Women seem to have given up on the notion of feminism and all that it stood for in the 70s. Now it seems easier for women to flaunt their looks and to continue to use their sexual power.

And I have become a lot more comfortable (even within the last year) with what it means to be a single women and just what I want my mark on society to be. So as much as the book made me want to never be girly again, it also made me more aware of just how I can use my womanhood to make a change.

I'm a WOMAN hear me ROAR!