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One of the fundamental issues of feminism is striving to regard women and their accomplishments for who and what they are. Read this as: it shouldn't matter if a woman is female, a mother, has breasts, etc. She accomplished these things as a human being, yet we tend to focus on her accomplishing goals despite these things as though the most fundamental state for a woman is being a female/mother, rather than being a person first.
We do not focus so much on the status of men. This is why it's a feminist issue. Strange, the practices and comments you've listed above would grate on the nerves of many feminists. This is mainly because you haven't listed anything about respecting women in any other way. Are these really your priority when it comes to women...as a self-proclaimed feminist?
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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