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Well I saw one feminist on twitter say something stupid so now I'm against a century of progress and all feminism.
by thinkingtoilet 2y ago
Well I saw one feminist on twitter say something stupid so now I'm against a century of progress and all feminism.
- mrkstu 2y agoNot her fault a whole lot of unrelated baggage got attached to to the term. People want to free ride off of social movements and say that they belong to the same raft of issues. When terms get overloaded it is natural to want to start regaining specificity.
- dijit 2y agoAny sufficiently vague label is useless. DevOps suffers exactly the same. If "feminism" means "advancement of womens issues", "a defence of misandry" or "equality" to different people, yet they all would be correctly identified as being Feminists, then it ceases to have any value as a label. If I criticise someone for conducting themselves in a way that generalises, denigrates and alienates a gender; I could be called "pro-feminist", despite talking against a person who could equally be described the same way. It's useless. Egalitarianism[0] is the correct word for believing in equality in society. Bonus points: it's not gendered. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egalitarianism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egalitarianism