RT-Medic-with-shotgun said:
Either you publicly say she is not with you and she does not stand for equal rights or you let her spread the belief that that is what she is.
So, did you denounce every wife beater, every man claiming women should be raped, every single sexist? No?`Well, by your logic, that means men agree with them and can all be judged by it.
This is why your argument is ludicrous and why nobody in their right mind does this. No, you do not need to denounce every crappy man, and feminists do not need to denounce every crappy feminist. The idea is nonsense.
Information age is a constant war when it comes to this. A war that the good in most sides is losing horrible. And yes if you support equality you can hate feminism.
Because the idea nay or may not have changed but the world around it has. Why continue fighting for something that is attained
If you actually want equality, you cannot hate feminism (which is simply the ideal that women should have the same rights as men - hating this idea is not compatible to wanting equality), and you would realize that equality has not been attained. Not by a long shot.
Absolutely not world wide, not in europe (although the scandinavian countries are pretty close) and not in the US.
Equality does not mean "men are better off than women, just not as much better off than 30 years ago". Equality means that women get the same money for the same work. Equality means that women have the same chance to get a job with the same qualification (and if you whine about quotas: Quotas are actually a funny thing, because the privileged group tends to see them as unjust, when all they do is work against a hiring bias. In fact, there are many feminists that argue for a
male quota among teachers. Because, see, all a quota does is making an employer equal out their employees when two employees have the same qualification. There is factually no quota anywhere that has ever made a company take an unqualified woman over a qualified male. The decision is always between roughly equally qualified employés. The fun part is that often a company will claim they "had" to hire a "less qualified" woman to a complaining male would-be-employée, because that gets the complainer of their back. This is important for a company, because then, the possible employer might try again when they need to hire someone again. Companies like to keep their options open. Yes, this is what companies really do, I've actually been told to do this by my superiors for these reasons. Isn't even a secret. Lots of men are quick to blame it all on women).
Equality means that courts do not automatically think a 12 year old girl is at fault for being raped by 18 adult men for "dressing provocatively". Equality means that men and women share work, not that most work at home, at taking care of children, is left to women.
Equality means that people (but especially women, statistically) are not constantly sexually harassed. Equality means all that and more.
Take this case. This case proves that equality has not been attained, true. The reason that woman-on-male violence is somewhat ignored is, funny enough, proof of this. It's based on sexist attitudes against women. In this specific case, they just happen to, for a change, negatively affect men as well.
And this is why we need feminism. If feminism would be successful and actual equality be reached, then male-on-female violence (which, as every study and statistic shows is about five timesa as common) would be considered as bad as female-on-male violence, because neither gender is considered property of the other gender, and both are considered equally valuable.
At this point you are either playing watch dog or chasing your tail. Also be wary of when radical feminism and feminism intersect in the eyes of everyone.
To most people that aren't radically anti-feminist, they don't intersect.
The only reason some people think "feminism" is bad is because they cling to the advantages men still have, and do not want to give them up. Feminism is seen as an attack on these advantages.
It's pretty much like fanboys defending the "right" of their class to be overpowered at this point. They have come to believe that it is natural for their class to have overpowered traits, so everyone who wants to balance things out is considered evil, mean, and oppressive.
Honestly, this thread reminds me so much of Warcraft class discussions, it's not even funny. People attack feminism the same way they attack players of a class that wants to balance things out, using the same ridiculous, nonsensical arguments. It's a gaming site, so that's to be expected, but it's still somewhat hilarious to notice.
Equality means that you lose privileges. Sorry.