for all of your replies, I had a feeling I may not be alone in having questioned this part of myself and as I hoped raising this subject has opened up other, valuable, points of view to me.

I understand and agree with many of the points made regarding the feminist movement and feminists loosing sight of what the "cause" was. I am in no way an active or extreme feminist and I couldn't agree with Moptop more when she said
"I believe that women are still quite often not respected and treated as equals within the workplace, or at home: where they are capable of providing an equal service, they should be treated equally. Where they are capable of better, they should be respected as such. Where they are less capable, they should be able to accept it."

I don't feel I have to justify something that feels so entirely natural to me but this supposed contradiction has been on my mind a while and I wanted to hear others view points on it and still hope to hear more.

I am grateful to be surrounded by such open and intelligent women here and if ever questioned on this in the future I will use the following quote.

Quote Originally Posted by star_catcher77 View Post
From an acutely feminist point of view; it would be wrong of you to deny women the *choice* of submissiveness