RE: Men's Rights Movement
December 21, 2017 at 1:29 pm
(This post was last modified: December 21, 2017 at 1:31 pm by FatAndFaithless.)
(December 21, 2017 at 1:23 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Being a feminist used to just mean you support women having the same legal rights as men under the law.
Now a days, since women already have all the same legal rights, it doesn't mean anything specific anymore to say you're a feminist. Because people have such different opinions on what is "pro female." As Tib's said, some feminists will say prostitution and pornography is empowering to women... others will say it's oppressive. Some feminists will think that women should be more like men.... others will say true feminism embraces femininity and all of its unique qualities. There are some feminist groups that are pro life. There are some that are an insufferable group of man hating women who won't shut up.
So, excuse us I suppose if we refrain from using a term that could mean so many different things. Can't we just agree that women have the same worth as men and should have the same legal rights? Most civilized people already think that anyway. We don't need a term for it anymore, other than just being a normal human being.
Your post is exactly why I'm hesitant to use most labels. Unless it's a specific, singular descriptor (like 'atheist'), I tend not to use them. There are situations where I will happily use a label, such as secular humanist, because I think the areas of disagreement within that label don't discount the overall mission. But for terms like feminist...I feel like the disagreements about what the label entails overshadows the value of the label itself.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Jefferson