Feminism is only "equal" when it's to females advantage! You will never find a female how ever going out there waving banners and signs when an instance such as the OPs post happens.
In fact, you will never find feminists going out and protesting against any unfair legal act that benefits their gender.
So... For the sake of not misleading anyone. Lets use the term "gender equality" *very* sparingly here.
I think relying purely on feminist activism to explain what feminism is is what is misleading.
It's like explaining what gravity is by saying "it's what makes apples fall to the Earth". If you know about the theory behind gravity you know it is a lot more than just what it looks like on the surface. Feminism is like that. If you just rely on base level observations about what activists do you're never going to get the full picture.
To use a more comparable example: it's like saying anyone who is anti-immigration is white supremacist. Just because some campaigners show signs of supporting white supremacy doesn't mean anti-immigration = white supremacy. In the same way: some feminist campaigners may appear to be female supremacists, but that doesn't mean feminism = female supremacy.
You can't look at banner-wavers and say "this is all that feminism is, this is all that feminists stand for". What you're doing is seeing the extremists, and defining a term by the the term's extreme rather than its average. You have to read about a word to understand what it *really* means, not just look at people who use the word and try and haphazardly cobble together some assumptions.
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OKAY. LETS LAY THE RECORD STRAIGHT.
Feminism is only "equal" when it's to females advantage! You will never find a female how ever going out there waving banners and signs when an instance such as the OPs post happens.
In fact, you will never find feminists going out and protesting against any unfair legal act that benefits their gender.
So... For the sake of not misleading anyone. Lets use the term "gender equality" *very* sparingly here.
"Equality".. such BS.
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I think relying purely on feminist activism to explain what feminism is is what is misleading.
It's like explaining what gravity is by saying "it's what makes apples fall to the Earth". If you know about the theory behind gravity you know it is a lot more than just what it looks like on the surface. Feminism is like that. If you just rely on base level observations about what activists do you're never going to get the full picture.
To use a more comparable example: it's like saying anyone who is anti-immigration is white supremacist. Just because some campaigners show signs of supporting white supremacy doesn't mean anti-immigration = white supremacy. In the same way: some feminist campaigners may appear to be female supremacists, but that doesn't mean feminism = female supremacy.
You can't look at banner-wavers and say "this is all that feminism is, this is all that feminists stand for". What you're doing is seeing the extremists, and defining a term by the the term's extreme rather than its average. You have to read about a word to understand what it *really* means, not just look at people who use the word and try and haphazardly cobble together some assumptions.