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* I am against maternity leave, particularly if it is paid. I am in favour of everyone having a certain amount of "family leave" that they can take to care for family members be in elderly grandmothers, best friends recovering from cancer or recently having a kid.
* I disagree with government funding for families.
* I am against the discrimination of child-free people.
* The biggest opponents to my view of "well having lots of kids is bad for the environment and the world and we should screen people who want to breed and have a strict one child policy" are women who identify as feminists.

Hmm. Personally I think pro-children and anti-children attitudes are spread pretty evenly between feminists and non-feminists, just that the reasons and emphasis are different. The importance of keeping population up is a very old, pre feminist idea which people hold for lots of reasons. Look at all the "make babies!" religious conservatives, and the baby bonus was brought in by a pretty unfeminist government.

* I don't think that there are that many hurdles for women in Australian society to overcome.

I tend to agree with this to some extent, as I explained in my later post this sort of thing isn't why I'm a feminist.

* I'm a stats junkie. I hate how people complain that women earn less than men on average without considering that men on average work more hours than women.

*shrug* All POVs sometimes use crappy stats to justify themselves. The discussions I've seen on this made a point of including hours worked in their analysis, but I'm sure some don't becuase people suck.

* I am against womens only space- particularly as the womens movement has been against mens only space.

I'm not, but I can see your point and think they have to be used carefully. I am in favour of certain kinds of mens only spaces, the issue is when they are used to exclude women from things they can't get access to elsewhere.

* I am pro abortion. Please note that I am not pro choice.

Like strangedave I find this a bit disturbing. What do you mean by it?

* I think both men and women need to take responsibility for contraception.
* There should be respect in all relationships.

Absolutely.

* I find domestic violence awareness that promotes the idea that only men hit women, without considering homosexual relationships or heterosexual relationships where women hit men deeply harmful to society.

I agree with this completely. Really, it's pretty sexist (and heterosexist), as if women are inherently non threatening.

* I think all feminists should read "The Sexual Politics of Meat" by Carol Adams.

*googles*

Huh, interesting. Hmm.