So did Atheism + bite the dust?

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Oh, but they were rude and kinda militant in a poorly defined way, so it's the same thing! Or something!

More than one way to be exclusionary. There really are some people out there who do believe things like this:



That's your feminazi. Not all of which are female, mind.

Now, sure... it could 'just as easily be a troll', but... Poe's Law... this happens enough that 'feminazi' is a thing. Hell, just listening to people at conferences talking about feminism tends to include some absolutely disgustingly sexist misconceptions about men (schrodinger's rapist for instance, also stuff like 'straight white men's lives revolve around sex'), and the term 'privilege' is almost exclusively levied at cisgendered white men (despite the fact that damn near everyone has privileges of some sort, even if they're not the same ones: there are cards that people can play, and most of us have a damn good chance of winning, regardless of the minor benefits of being a guy or a girl)

Between the vehemently aggressive classifying of peoples, vitriolic and sometimes violent persecution of people who do not belong within the 'in' group, the utterly insane reaction to any instance of perceived slut-shaming, the immediate backlash to unpopular views or statements that are identified as attacks before they're half formed, the lack of moderation within the feminist communities allowing 'rabid' and 'toxic' people to continue behaving in this manner under their banner, and the threatening manner in which these people conduct a great deal of 'discourse' (rant-inclined)...?

'Feminazi' is here to stay in its modern sense, and for damn good reason. When feminists finally *coughs*'man up' ( ) and cleanse their movement of these poisonous personalities? That's when feminism will regain respect in an online sense...

Of course, I believe it's far far too late to recover the movement's 'branding'. It'd be a waste of effort at this point, much much easier to 'start' a movement about the equality of all persons (in a social sense).