Lizzie,
You know you are one of my favorite people here and forever my favorite cool girl buddy, but I'm going to disagree. I understood the posts and I did not just see the negative. I saw 2 separate notions - one I agreed with and said so, but did not see the need to just repeat at length what was already stated, the other I stongly disagreed with and still do.

And I do not believe it was a matter of miscommunication or using smilies either, because both ideas were quite clearly stated, and there was nowhere to use smilies there at all.

Phobeous,
My post was by no means a personal attack. I'm generally here to laugh, not attack. But I'll try to make myself crystal clear this time, so that we can put all this behind us and move on to laughter and some crazy fun.

I saw 2 distinct ideas in your posts:
1. Extreme Femnism is bad
I wholeheartedly agree. And it's just as bad for men as it is for women. After we burnt all the bras, some women gradually started turning into men, we've graduated from Merilyn Monroe to female bodybuilders, and that's just the physical aspect. There is much more to that. Nor do I agree with the way Extreme Feminism treats men because I happen to love most of them, and even have this crazy idea in my mind of marrying one of them some day. Enough said here because we are in full agreement on this point. And I will never be a supporter of this movement for as long as I live, for many various reasons, some of which have actually caused a lot of grief in my own life.

But then there is your (and some men's) view of
2. Feminism = Extreme Feminism
And this I strongly disagree with. The notion of Feminism was rooted in Equal Rights. There is no implication of chauvinism against either gender. Prior to Feminist Movement women were treated like second class citizens with very few rights. A woman's job was to bear and raise children, cook, clean, shop, do laundry and have sex with a husband she may or may not like, but she definitely needs him because she has very limited education and employment opportunities in order to survive on her own.

I'm forever grateful to the movement of liberation, which allowed me, and other women, to live the life we live today and be strong, independent, knowledgeable, yet feminine individuals. So yes, I'm a Feminist.

And I have a big problem with the fact that when I state that I'm a Feminist, you would simply refuse to date or even talk to me, based on the assumption that when I say Feminist I actually mean Extreme Feminist, which could not be further from the truth. And you did explicitly state that you would not date a woman, who calls herself a Feminist. To me that is equivalent to me ordering seafood and receiving a steak. It's just not the same thing and you can't simply assume that it is, especially without asking questions.

Having said all that, I do not define myself in the real world as a Feminist or Extreme Feminist. I define myself as a regular woman with some great qualities, some of which were allowed by the Feminist movement, as well as some terrible faults that are simply my own. But I do not want to live in the world, where the movement that allowed me to achieve a lot of my knowledge and ensuing opportunities, is automatically viewed as some sort of crazy extremism.

True Feminism is to be admired because it benefited both women and men. And thank you lil-lamb for pointing out that there are plenty of wonderful, confident, amazing men, who would have no problem being regarded as followers of true Feminism. In fact, I think I know quite a few of them around here, and I'm honored to call them my friends.

I hope you are one of them, and I also hope we can become friends.