Yes, beliefs can be repulsive. But to dismiss the people who hold them to be repulsive people prevents you from having a constructive dialogue with them, and that stops you from ever coming to an understanding as to why they hold those beliefs. If you dismiss people to be "repulsive", then you fail to imagine them complexly as people who might have come to their beliefs for perfectly reasonable... reasons :P
That depends. You are seeing it from a "They are repulsive because of their title", I am meaning seeing them as repulsive due to what they say and believe.
People don't just find people repulsive due to their title, they do it because they explored their belief and came to the conclusion that their belief makes them repulsive, not at the start.
That's still looking at things from one perspective. There are some people who identify as "feminists", but that isn't the whole of who they are. Some feminists also believe in environmental issues, some feminists believe in equal rights for different races, some feminists believe in general equality and not just in gender issues. Some feminists believe in correcting the injustices against men that exist.
Just because someone is a feminist and adopts feminist ideology, does not prevent them from having redeeming traits. You'd have to explore the entirety an individual person's belief system before you can judge them based on what they believe, otherwise you are just cherry-picking the parts you don't like like feminism as an excuse to dislike the whole person, because the feminism isn't the whole person. It's a part of the whole person.
I might see a feminist who lives at the extreme end of the feminist spectrum; a "female supremacist" for want of a better word. I would hate that one belief, and I would find it truly repulsive, as should any "right-thinking" person. But that person might also believe in a lot of other social issues I agree with, like drug legalization and gay marriage and saving the environment and the benefits of vegetarianism and animal rights and progressive economics. I would see part of that person's belief system as repulsive, but I could see the rest as fantastic. Labeling that person as repulsive would be the equivalent of taking a delicious, perfect apple, seeing a big old bruise on it and instantly throwing it away, ignoring all the good stuff.
Is it normal that I find men who hold feminist beliefs repulsive?
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Yes, beliefs can be repulsive. But to dismiss the people who hold them to be repulsive people prevents you from having a constructive dialogue with them, and that stops you from ever coming to an understanding as to why they hold those beliefs. If you dismiss people to be "repulsive", then you fail to imagine them complexly as people who might have come to their beliefs for perfectly reasonable... reasons :P
EDIT: You too should Google Godwin's Law :P
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That depends. You are seeing it from a "They are repulsive because of their title", I am meaning seeing them as repulsive due to what they say and believe.
People don't just find people repulsive due to their title, they do it because they explored their belief and came to the conclusion that their belief makes them repulsive, not at the start.
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That's still looking at things from one perspective. There are some people who identify as "feminists", but that isn't the whole of who they are. Some feminists also believe in environmental issues, some feminists believe in equal rights for different races, some feminists believe in general equality and not just in gender issues. Some feminists believe in correcting the injustices against men that exist.
Just because someone is a feminist and adopts feminist ideology, does not prevent them from having redeeming traits. You'd have to explore the entirety an individual person's belief system before you can judge them based on what they believe, otherwise you are just cherry-picking the parts you don't like like feminism as an excuse to dislike the whole person, because the feminism isn't the whole person. It's a part of the whole person.
I might see a feminist who lives at the extreme end of the feminist spectrum; a "female supremacist" for want of a better word. I would hate that one belief, and I would find it truly repulsive, as should any "right-thinking" person. But that person might also believe in a lot of other social issues I agree with, like drug legalization and gay marriage and saving the environment and the benefits of vegetarianism and animal rights and progressive economics. I would see part of that person's belief system as repulsive, but I could see the rest as fantastic. Labeling that person as repulsive would be the equivalent of taking a delicious, perfect apple, seeing a big old bruise on it and instantly throwing it away, ignoring all the good stuff.