Like all things it's impossible to reduce it to either "good" or "bad". There are feminists who are good people and feminists who are bad people. I genuinely believe most feminists want to work toward gender equality, but there's a vocal minority who want female supremacy. We need groups who work to reduce injustice against women (and injustice against men, too).
I just wish more of the good-people feminists would seriously consider using another name. Calling themselves the same thing lends a veneer of legitimacy to the bad-people feminists and at the same time hurts their own credibility.
I and understand the reluctance to let bad people steal the term, but it wasn't a very good label for a philosophy that claims to want equality anyway.
I agree, in a society where men and women are becoming closer to equal the term could be construed as implying a focus only on women. Of course the word itself shouldn't really matter but I think it could be better for them if they started using a more gender neutral label, if only to separate female supremacists from gender equality feminists. It's the sort of problem that always seems to arise when two groups of people believing completely different things both try to use the same label.
Feminism: Good or Bad?
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Like all things it's impossible to reduce it to either "good" or "bad". There are feminists who are good people and feminists who are bad people. I genuinely believe most feminists want to work toward gender equality, but there's a vocal minority who want female supremacy. We need groups who work to reduce injustice against women (and injustice against men, too).
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I just wish more of the good-people feminists would seriously consider using another name. Calling themselves the same thing lends a veneer of legitimacy to the bad-people feminists and at the same time hurts their own credibility.
I and understand the reluctance to let bad people steal the term, but it wasn't a very good label for a philosophy that claims to want equality anyway.
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I agree, in a society where men and women are becoming closer to equal the term could be construed as implying a focus only on women. Of course the word itself shouldn't really matter but I think it could be better for them if they started using a more gender neutral label, if only to separate female supremacists from gender equality feminists. It's the sort of problem that always seems to arise when two groups of people believing completely different things both try to use the same label.