2013-03-10, 04:29 AM
valhala556 Wrote:I just had to point this out as it irks me.
No, just because you want equal rights for everyone doesn't auto make you a feminist. What would make you a feminist is if you wanted equal rights for all sexes AND you agree with the path that the current feminists take. What you said is the same thing as saying " In StarWars, Jedi and Sith are the same because they have the same end goal."- No they aren't and they clearly dont even like each other either.
But honestly by your definition of what makes a person a feminist most everyone is a feminist at face value. But when you talk to them about it why is that?
I think a lot and I mean a lot of men are not feminist simply of the group name is "feminist" and what that tells the person is that its a women only group. Just how if I had a group called "Black Society" that's goal was to keep blacks out of jail. Which should be a positive thing. Everyone who hears that name would think of it as a "black only group". And thus little to no non-black support for it.
Sorry if my Black Society example was bad/ ineffective. Most the time I suck at drawing parallels to other situations.
She was talking about those who want gender equality but don't call themselves a feminist. I see it a lot, a lot of people avoid calling themselves feminists while believing in equality for women because of the negative misconception the media and radfems gave the word. Denying what you are by definition because you think it means something negative without actually researching it is really close-minded.
EDIT: Whoa, I was ninja'd big time.