Might help also to describe what you think feminism is, since it’s one of those terms that is overloaded.

I once had a physical therapist tell me she wasn’t a feminist because she thought women couldn’t be as physically capable as men when serving as soldiers, and seemed to believe feminism requires treating women exactly like men.

I told her I was a feminist because I believe in equal rights for men and women, an idea she did not seem so opposed to.

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    16 days ago

    When everything else is equal, women still deal with more inequality than men, and feminism is exists because of that fact

    this is such a succinct and eloquent point about why “feminism” is focused on women at all … this point seems lost on so many men, who seem to think “equality” demands we ignore the way inequality and power is distributed, as if the only approach to the situation is a kind of gender-blindness, and anything else is hypocrisy