RE: Why so many "anti-feminists" in the atheist community?
January 4, 2015 at 12:24 pm
(This post was last modified: January 4, 2015 at 12:29 pm by bennyboy.)
(January 4, 2015 at 11:56 am)Blackout Wrote: Other problem is that you're defining feminism yourself conveniently.No I'm not. I'm defining it in the most general possible terms, to include all those who consider themselves feminist. As I said, just because you are a feminist, or know feminists, doesn't mean that your more narrow definition must be accepted, and that those who fall outside that definition are not also feminists.
The atheists here have dealt with this semantic issue. That's why the "official" line, such as it is, is that the only requirement of atheism is that someone lack an active belief in a God/gods. Of course, there are many here that have an active disbelief that God can exist, or even a few who believe that religious institutions should be forcibly removed from the face of the Earth, or whatever. But they're all atheist, and nobody gets to say they represent THE atheism.
If you really wanted to push it, and demand that when I'm talking to you, I accept your definition of feminism, I'd say two things: 1) the feminists you are talking about are okay by me-- I have positive feelings toward them; 2) your insistence on getting to define the word narrowly, and on coercing me to use that definition in the context of this thread, would represent the kind of dogma that would probably get me to declare as anti-feminist, at least in the current context.
