Modern feminism

[Fidel_Castronaut]

Oh, I see, the Father's Day thing was a hoax so really it was an attack on feminism.

I think feminism is something that has really clashed hard with the internet. Radical ideas always gain more attention, the awful and bizarre things are shown to the world while the reasonable and fair is ignored. All thats needed are a few genuine radical feminists with a few bizarre ideas and all the trolls fictions are believable.

Honestly, I stay away from feminism as a subject online for the most part. It usually becomes a toxic conversation. Its so easy for trolls to jump in and stir up the pot, its the type of emotion and passion filled subject that can be so explosive. Its the same with most topics but with things like racism or sexism a clusterfuck is always waiting on the horizon.

The sad thing is is that feminism has a very long and nuanced discourse that is far, far older than the internet. It stretches back hundreds of years and has actually informed a lot of social and political theory that I subscribe to.

Engagement in what I would term the layman's form of feminism has resulted in more extreme and often nonsensical positions both for and against. Bring up the word egalitarianism in front of so called 'feminazis' and you're lambasted for being utopian or living in a dream world. Bring up notions of greater employment and social equality for women in front of anti-feminists and you're equally rebuked as ignorning the contradictory elements of a school of thought that seeks to prmote equality often at the expense of those that don't subscribe to it.

It's a shame really because surely the message of equality, regardless of sex or colour (etc) is something we should all subscribe to. And that was the original goal of feminism and its contribution to egalitarian thought.