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Why so many "anti-feminists" in the atheist community?
RE: Why so many "anti-feminists" in the atheist community?
I'm absolutely not going to get into whether "being pro-gender-equality" is an adequate definition of the word or the movement of feminism. Feminism, like it or not, is a broadly interpreted word both within and without the movement itself, so yes, insisting on "your" definition as the "true" one is a "No True Scotsman" fallacy because that's what that fallacy literally is. It's taking a broadly interpreted thing and insisting on one's own narrow definition of it.


Suffice it to say that, in general, when YouTube atheists label themselves as anti-feminist, they're generally referring to the stereotype of boy-haired, safe-space mongering man-haters who want trigger-warnings on everything, refer to the Earnings Gap as a Pay Gap, and insist America is permeated by rape culture. That's been my observation, anyway.


Another thing I've observed is that feminism as a whole is pretty bad at denouncing/distancing itself from the extreme and detrimental branches of its adherents. Christians and Muslims are probably doing a better job at this, honestly. This is probably the main reason why many talking heads don't feel the need to say "radical" or "extreme" when addressing these elements of feminist culture.
Verbatim from the mouth of Jesus (retranslated from a retranslation of a copy of a copy):

"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you too will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. How can you see your brother's head up his ass when your own vision is darkened by your head being even further up your ass? How can you say to your brother, 'Get your head out of your ass,' when all the time your head is up your own ass? You hypocrite! First take your head out of your own ass, and then you will see clearly who has his head up his ass and who doesn't." Matthew 7:1-5 (also Luke 6: 41-42)

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RE: Why so many "anti-feminists" in the atheist community? - by Redbeard The Pink - December 4, 2015 at 2:20 am
SPEEDBUMP - by Fidel_Castronaut - December 4, 2015 at 9:42 am

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