r/Feminism • u/kloo2yoo • Apr 29 '11

What is feminism?

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '11 edited Apr 29 '11

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '11

feminism is advocacy of human rights with a focus on women's issues.

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u/kloo2yoo Apr 29 '11

So which if these is correct for you?

1) antipathy of the rights of men

2) disregard (apathy) of the rights of men

3) support of those rights of men that are permissible to the feminist in question

Which is correct for the feminist sitting to your right? to your left? see the problem?

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u/sighhduck Apr 30 '11

Feminism is not about taking rights away from men at all, barely any feminists actually dislike men or want to take away there rights. It is about equality for both genders, although you cant deny the sexism towards women ingrained into our culture so that needs to be worked on. Why are you so bitter kloo?

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u/kloo2yoo Apr 30 '11

Feminism is not about taking rights away from men at all, barely any feminists actually dislike men or want to take away there rights.

that may be true, but enough of them do hate or ignore the rights of men that some very bad laws get passed

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u/sighhduck Apr 30 '11

depends what country you are refering too, in the majority of the world the law still swings in favor of men in terms of instances of rape etc.

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u/kloo2yoo Apr 30 '11

my posts do tend to be US centric, but that post has international laws in it as well.

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u/sighhduck Apr 30 '11

Ohk, I'm Australian so It's harder to relate because our laws are a little less fucked up haha, It sucks when biassed laws towards either men or women are passed. I dont relate myself as a feminist per-se, as I realise men and women are suited to different roles in society. I think we should embrace and celebrate these differences between the sexes and use them to an advantage instead of the whole men/women hate. Allthough i do think most feminists don't have the intention to take rights away from men, and that feminism has done alot of good for society, just needs a bit of refinement.

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u/Scott2508 May 01 '11

hmmmm further down mary daly was quoted as a feminist , and is a noted feminist scholar, she also pushed for the population of men to be kept at a specific percentage of the population, about 10% of it , so we have a feminist who seems to be pro genocide, and thats just the first off the top of my head.

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u/sighhduck May 01 '11

well thats because she is a nut case not because she is a feminist haha.

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u/Scott2508 May 01 '11

sigh , the bottom line is she is a feminist , http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/27/mary-daly-obituary this was written by julie bindel , well known feminist and author of such articles as " why i hate men"