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Are you a feminist? (If so why, if not why not?)
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I prefer the term egalitarian or something to that effect. I definitely fall under the definition of a feminist, but I think it's sort of ironic that a term for equality has an inherent bias for women in the word itself, even if it is not the intended meaning.
I think the word itself has actually harmed the movement significantly. Turns out the words we use matter a lot. So again, I prefer a more neutral sounding term, like egalitarianism or equal rights.
I think its one of those things that doesnt translate so well outside of its time/place. Here in the UK we had people scoffing at "black lives matter" because "surely all lives matter are white people not as important..". We're not feeling systemic racism nearly to the same extent America is and the movement loses a lot of its power based just on the name. I think feminism has caught the same thing being out of its time.
There's surely some issues still to work on with gender equality, but the main big ones have been pretty much solved as best we can. Women can vote, drive, work etc. On the surface the works already been done.
I think you might be on to something there. I'm in Denmark and Scandinavia have been forerunners when it comes to equality and LGBT+-rights and such, so perhaps the use of the "fem" in the term feels undue for my cultural background.
I think this very much depends on where you live. I'd say that even in Denmark, which is very well ahead of most of the rest of the world, there are still lots of gender equality issues. We've only "solved" them in the sense that the laws are fairly equal (not equal to the extent I would like it, but almost), but the culture is still somewhat unequal. Women still take much more parental leave than men do, for instance.
100% agree with this. A lot of people associate feminism with oppression of men.