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Question: Do you think feminism is a sexist word, in theory is supposed to be about equality but has become a movement about hating men and ignoring issues men face and hyper focusing on issues face should the movement not be called equalist rather than feminist #equalityforALL
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Laura commented on :
SO I like the first sentence on the Wikipedia article about feminism, as it sums up what I always understood feminism to really be about:
“Feminism is a range of social movements, political movements, and ideologies that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes.”
See, it’s that last bit there that I like – equality of the sexes. That’s the bit that I’m for. You’re right that any divergences from this aim take away from the core principle and meaning of feminism. In theory we shouldn’t need a new term ‘equalist’ becausse ‘feminist’ actually really is meant to do the job.
((Oh, by the way – a weird thing happened to my copying and pasting right now and I wondered if anyone might have an idea what’s happened – I thought I was using normal keyboard shortcuts to copy and paste that quotation above – and *this* happened:
”Feminism is a range of social movements, political movements, and ideologies that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes.[“