French Feminism vs American

Feminism
Feminism itself is supposed to be the struggle for equal rights between men and
women.

There are 2 main schools of thought relating to feminism: Western feminism and
French / European feminism, which is practiced elsewhere in the world.

Western feminism / American feminism

This type of feminism basically teaches that women are inherently not equal to men.
Therefore, women must compensate by working hard to gain equal footing and / or
outdo men. This is why you may see terms like Working Women (as opposed to
Working People), emphasizing a womans role that is just as strong or stronger.
There is a focus on women being able to do the same jobs men usually do, and if
necessary to adopt masculine attributes to be recognized as equal. This type of
feminism is commonly seen to have an adversarial attitude.

French feminism

French feminism basically focuses on ensuring equal rights for women while
admitting (versus fighting) the natural gender differences, so Men are A, and Women
are B, but A is not superior to B, or vice versa. In other words, French and other
European brands of feminism have no problems reconciling that men and women
have inherently different preferences and desires, but they do not feel threatened by
these differences.

It seeks to empower women through their own femininity. They seek equality in
terms of civil rights (voting, that their decision counts, that they have the same
amount of opportunities, etc.) but at the same time promotes feminine
empowerment. For example: being sexually attractive as means for empowerment,
focusing on embracing ones feminine self, beauty, and celebrating more womanly
tasks and jobs versus feeling limited by them. European feminism is about
promoting feminine positions and ideas in society while not trying to imitate men
who are, by nature, different.

Very often these two schools of thought fight amongst each other. For example,
Western feminists may accuse French feminism of allowing themselves to be
oppressed by men for feeling its acceptable to dress in a sexual way and being OK
with mens compliments and attention.

On the other hand, French feminism may accuse Western feminism of

disempowering women by telling them to pursue manly tasks and behavior. French
feminists may feel offended by the notion that behaving in a feminine way is just
wanting to attract men.

Theres nothing wrong with feminism (or at least the way its supposed to be). The
real problem we are dealing with is that theres something wrong with how people in
America interact with each other and spread harmful ideas.

Something very bad happened in America, perhaps nourished by fear, control,

overpopulation, and Hollywood that made its citizens too self-conscious. As a
foreigner having lived in Los Angeles for a year, I am now absolutely sure that the
USA is the most self-conscious country in the world, and this had led to a lot of
confusion in matters relating to social interactions between genders.

So America has become the perfect fertile field for confused and unhealthy gender
dynamics to grow. You can see this not only through the lens of Western feminism
but in Americans day to day lives.

Theres a problem with education: Social classes in America are more divided, the
public education system fails to deliver, and men lack behavioral guidance in life.
This is why men lack the touch and chivalry to display value and they resort to needy
behavior (cat-calling) instead of properly approaching and striking up a conversation.

Theres a fight going on out there, namely against Western and North American
thinking, which is an ideology of self-consciousness and confusion that hurts gender
dynamics and makes life much harder for both men and women. By contrast there
are other ideas about feminism that do not promote a self-conscious and unhappy
society, and this is the European and French model.

Its very important for men and women alike to recognize these alternatives and to
spread awareness about them, otherwise Western ideologies will continue to spread,
and as we have seen by the very damaged social culture in the United States, we do
NOT want Western culture and its wrong ideas about the sexes to overtake countries
abroad that have much older and more balanced views on male / female
relationships.