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Originally Posted by Ramsay
I believe everyone to be equal but man it gets on my tits when some feminists go too far
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Agreed. By those definitions, yes, I completely agree with option A. However, I am very hesitant to call myself a "feminist" because, sadly, that is not what the word means today and that is not the goal of many modern feminism supporters.
I believe in true equality which means I do NOT support "positive discrimintion".
To use an example: the goal of modern feminism in any random workplace seems to be to have a "quota" so that a equal number of men and women are employed. So let's say it's a workplace with 20 positions, currently there are 10 men and 9 women. Equality is not ensuring that a woman fills the vacant post. Equality is choosing the BEST APPLICANT for that post, completely blind to gender. Equality could be a workplace of 20 men, or 20 women, or anything inbetween, so long as those people have been chosen purely on merit and not because of which set of genitals they happen to have.
In short: I fully believe in equality of opportunity for all people, taking gender, race etc. Out of the equation. I do not agree with controlling ratios to prop up some artificial "equality quota" if it means that someone better qualified is passed over.
A lot of modern feminism is about empowering women at the expense of men. That is not any sort of equality. The word is tainted.