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Old 04-02-2018, 06:06 PM #2
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Originally Posted by Brillopad View Post
Feminism simply means believing women are equal to men, nothing more, so why on earth is it divisive. It is not a dirty word.

There is a big difference between ‘equality being the thing’ and people actually practising what they preach.
The meaning of a word changes over time; it may have meant simply that once, but it's meaning has become so convoluted and complex that at this point it barely means anything. Even people who claim to subscribe to the same "branch" of feminism can't agree on a definition.
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