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The definition of feminism is "the advocacy of women's rights on the ground of the equality of the sexes" - that is fundamentally compatible with equality. You
by Latty 9y ago
The definition of feminism is "the advocacy of women's rights on the ground of the equality of the sexes" - that is fundamentally compatible with equality. You can claim that's not what feminism today is working towards, but that's simply untrue. Feminism hasn't changed to some kind of anti-male conspiracy, despite the ability for people on the internet to find stupid troll posts or the odd extremist saying "all men should be slaves"!
- adventured 9y ago> You can claim that's not what feminism today is working towards, but that's simply untrue. You can claim that's the definition of feminism, I believe what you're saying is untrue. I don't believe what you quoted is the definition of feminism - there are more likely almost as many definitions of feminism as there are feminists. I think it's absurd to claim that there is one definition given the rather elaborate diversity of belief on the matter just among feminists.
- Latty 9y agoI take it you mean "I think what most feminist advocate isn't equality, but sexism against men" - that is not what the predominant message of feminism is today. As I see it, you are taking a vanishingly small minority of comments from extremists/trolls and extrapolating that all feminists believe it. (Edited for more civility).
- dang 9y agoThis kind of comment violates the site guidelines no matter how wrong the other person is. Moreover the entire subthread is off-topic as described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14703722 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14703722. Please stop.