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As a gender and sexual minority, I try to stay clear of feminists. (At least, when someone says they are one, I get wary.) They're some of the most GSM hostile
by Crake 13y ago
As a gender and sexual minority, I try to stay clear of feminists. (At least, when someone says they are one, I get wary.) They're some of the most GSM hostile people I've met.
>The whole idea of feminism is inclusion, which means including trans, queer and other genders and YES including men too.
Mainstream feminism doesn't agree, except for when someone wants to start an equal rights movement for another demographic, like men or GLBT. Then they start acting like patent lawyers.
I would suggest looking into egalitarianism, which lacks the gender supremacy aspect of feminism. You can continue to identify as a feminist, that's fine and 100% up to you...but you're going to spend more time fighting other feminists about what "feminism" means than doing anything else. :/
- rachellaw 13y agoWell that's the problem with preconceptions of feminism. Egalitarianism was originally a spinoff from 60s feminism (lead by Stein, Haraway, Latour etc) They actually went one step beyond that human equality, but suggested that machines/objects were on par with humanity since it augmented human intelligence (Engelbart). The problem nowadays is that feminism has turned into a splinter pile of infighting groups who, honestly, don't know what feminism is. Feminism has nothing to do with female superiority, it was simply put forward (along with queer theory, post-colonialism) as a framework to analyze society.