What do you think about feminism?

[mornelithe]

the-pi-guy said:

mornelithe said:

No, that's egalitarian, feminism is about the rights of women.

Feminism: giving women the same rights as men.  (Which is logically equivalent to what he said.)

Egalitarian: Ensuring equality for all people.  (This can be used for a deeper kind of equality.)

They can be used differently, and he's not wrong on his usage.  

Ka-pi96 said:

Considering that everyone who has posted so far has felt the need to specify that they support equality rather than just 'feminism' that's obviously not true. Regardless of what it used to mean or was intended to mean, things change over time. Although the fact that it comes from the word 'feminine' would imply that it was only ever concerned with women in the first place anyway.

It's not really a different meaning, it's just a group of people trying to take it too far. 

Just because people have associated a negative meaning to feminism, doesn't exactly change the meaning.  

The reason why I disagree with your analysis of the term is that every time someone tries to talk about men's issues, where they do have less rights than women, they're not called feminists, are they?  They're called MRA's and demonized.  In theory, your definition works out, in practice, it doesn't.