Violent Acres, whom, if i ever meet shall cover with honey and lick it off, wrote a very good couple of articles regarding a new version of feminism i was not aware of.
Before I go wandering willy-nilly into the definition, just go over and read hers. Save me the hassle and she gets paid for it.

I had a really in depth conversation with Jon last night about this very topic.
I am a single mother (abandoned by my boyfriend of off-and-on one year when he found out), going to school full time and working part time. I dont have to work as our student funding system gives me enough money, but I choose to as I do not enjoy not feeling productive.

Jon says the child support system is fucked and doesnt believe that a man should have to pay for a kid if he didnt want it and had no say in whether or not abortion or adoption was an option. Or if the chick decided to get knocked up on purpose. However, they do. I completely agree with him even though he is a man. :P

What my problem is in relation to VA is that here I am, working my ass to the bone,getting an education with a fairly okay social life, and still manage to spend time with my kid and these "women" claim to be enlightened enough to call themselves feminists. A feminist was a woman who fought for the rights of women. The right to vote, the right to be enrolled in the 'good ol boys' army, the right to a decent wage and a workplace free of harassment. They fought for the right to put their daughters in hockey and football. If burning a bra got their point across, then so be it. Sometimes I want to burn my bra for the reason of the complicated and very annoying washing instructions on it. I'll be damned if i waste a load of laundry on the 'gentle cycle'.

How can you justify calling yourself a feminist because you chose to stay home with your snotty kids? How does that help women and society as a whole? How does that advance the plight of women? Which so far as I can see is pretty much okay. Short of peeing standing up, we can do everything men can do.
But these new "feminists"!
They expect me, whose arms are filled with groceries, to stop and hold the door for them just because they happen to have a stroller. They will become indignant if i don't. They expect me to coo and gag over their 'cute' children. They expect me, even though I am a parent also, to give way to them if their children are smaller.
This goes against all feminist policy. Hold your own damn door open Harpo! Coo over my kid! He doesn't drool on himself!

Sure, don't work. Stay at home. Dont have any friends other than the ones in mommy-group. Dont have any outside interests. But dont expect me to foot the bill when your kid moves out and you realize how desparately alone you are, and you decide to jump off of a building. No big loss. You didn't contribute much anyway.

I have tried to hold conversations with this type of 'feminist'. They are mindless Proctor-Gamble drones. They have barely any knowledge of current events, so it is obviouls that they could not hold a conversation regarding anything pre-Blue's Clues either. They stare at me stunned when i say in am in engineering because that is not an accepted pink collar position. They become enraged that I have left my son to be, what they call 'raised' by daycares, after school programs and babysitters, all because I am selfish enough to want an education. I dont need one they say. I can make a perfectly adequate living working full time at a regular job. How dare I, presume to be better by going to college. Their children will be so much better than mine because they stayed home with them.
My child is learning the benefits of an education right now. He is learning the meaning of a work ethic. Sure, I dont devote 100% of my time to him, but the time I do spend with him, he gets a content mother who has her own personality and own life.