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Originally Posted by Smithy
well go look it up in a dictionary, or on google, it's the definition  |
"
The advocacy of women’s rights on the grounds of the equality of the sexes." - Oxford
As I said before there's more than a slight irony in talking about equality when the definition itself is not equal, by only mentioning women. I advocate women's AND men's rights on the grounds of equality. The definition above suggests that there are no imbalances that favour women and (in the western world) that is simply false. There may be MORE imbalances favouring men, but that is irrelevant, if they exist at all the other way around then only mentioning women's rights in regard to equality is questionable.
If feminism is truly about pure equality, then it is a misnomer. I am not a feminist unless I can also, at the same time, be a "masculist". I would much rather there was a term that encompassed both without using needless gender-based terminology.