| setsunatenshi said: Evil? They can be wrong, it doesn't make them evil necessarily. I think for many people describing themselves as feminists, I would say their intentions and heart are in a good place, but they don't realize the ideology that sits behind what they are declaring themselves to be, actually is sexist in itself and by conception bias against men (and in several forms of feminism against some women as well) Then you have the professional victims like the Sarkeesian types that simply profit out of that buzzword and are actually destructive to the goals of equality that most of us would agree with. (not equality of results, but equality of opportunities) |
I've been to two meetings of feminists and I was pleasantly surprised that though the hardcore ones were all about women's rights, the topics that they discussed and the reaction by most attendees were about men's rights too. They talked about how women are pressured to have a certain type of body and then female feminists would jump in and say, men don't have it much better since they're not allowed to show their feelings or they will be criticised by both men and women. They talked about words that they think are harmful, such as pussy or reference to "having balls" as a good thing, because both harm men and women. They brought up the need for paternity leave (though they said nothing about child custody).
My point is, how many times have people, who accuse feminist of all sorts of things, actually listened to them?
