Technically not just women's rights. As a feminist I supports the rights of all minorities or oppressed people. I want fairness and equality for everyone.
Who are these oppressed people? What type of person is not oppressed?
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I just mean that when I see someone being treated unfairly because they belong to a certain group (gender, race, religion, class, etc.) I'm against that. I want people to all be treated based on their own merits and not on some preconceived bias/prejudice.
Okay yes, but isn't the definition of "feminism" equality of the sexes. The rest I guess just makes you a conscious human being and I can't believe that's still even an argument you know? Equality for all should be a thing; however because of resources and other factors we are completely capable of it yet in my opinion. Yeah I feel you tho.
I can agree with that. What bothers me is when an employer or the government decides to give a type of individual more value as an employee because of their color and/or genital configuration.
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That's the most common one, but I'm referring to philosophical feminism (which I learned about in my philosophy class last quarter), which is the promotion of fairness and equality for all groups of people, basically wanting humans to treat each other like people and stop being dicks to each other because of perceived differences that don't really do anything to separate us as human beings.
Oh God, reminds me of when we had to do a presentation in class on whatever we wanted and some girl in my class did hers on female representation in action films.
She was asked if she was a feminist and she said yeah and then someone asked her what a feminist was and she said "It's where you believe women should have more rights than men". FML.
Yeah dude! It's like "uh are you okay?" Honestly tho, I feel bad for the women because she seemed so certain of it and idk where she setting the information. Plus, she doesn't seem like the brightest student in the class if you ask me, but nonetheless I was like "really!?"
In my class, she was like "Women are seen as sexual figures in action films because they wear tight fitting clothes that don't cover much", something like that
Like ye, I can see about the "don't cover much", but if they're parkouring, jumping onto trains and shit, surely they don't want loose clothes snagging on stuff??? 0_o.
It was a very weird presentation tbh.
Feminazi is an actual word in the dictionary... an extreme or militant feminist
We get that Nazis were worse just like when someone uses the words grammar Nazi we know which is really worse
In a literal sense, though, feminism is a movement to promote women's rights over men's. If you want equal rights, you should call yourself an equalist, and petition for equality, which means petitioning for both men and women
I agree that if equality is the mindset, calling it feminism is not the right word. That would be like promoting race equality under the moniker whitism.
because feminism mainly focuses on creating equality for women. Overall equality is important, but it is too broad if effective change is to be made. Feminism focuses on one specific group and their equality. Just like other groups can on their own equality. So when it all comes together, everyone is working for equality, but in more managable and clear areas.
She was asked if she was a feminist and she said yeah and then someone asked her what a feminist was and she said "It's where you believe women should have more rights than men". FML.
Like ye, I can see about the "don't cover much", but if they're parkouring, jumping onto trains and shit, surely they don't want loose clothes snagging on stuff??? 0_o.
It was a very weird presentation tbh.
is this PC?
We get that Nazis were worse just like when someone uses the words grammar Nazi we know which is really worse