Why do so many people think that feminists are not egalitarians?
From Wikipedia:
Feminism is a range of movements and ideologies that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve equal political, economic, cultural, personal, and social rights for women.
Emphasis mine. By definition, someone who does not believe in equality is not a feminist.
That video is nonsense tarnishing PBS's otherwise good name.
Egalitarianism is literally thousands of years older than the first person to have ever strung the words "men's", "rights", and "activism" together in a row. Has that person never opened a history book?
Feminism has its roots as a subset of egalitarianism.
GGPP's question is analogous to "Why do you identify as a Californian instead of an American?" (and possible answers would be analogous too; someone might just be being more specific, or might be o
That video is nonsense tarnishing PBS's otherwise good name.
Egalitarianism is literally thousands of years older than the first person to have ever strung the words "men's", "rights", and "activism" together in a row. Has that person never opened a history book?
A lot of the videos that are like this and linked to PBS tarnish their name, and they don't seem to give a shit. And no, they've never opened a history book. In the video, the person in question directly states that feminism isn't a subset of egalitarianism, but rather feminism is the true face of egalitarianism.
The problem of course for a lot of people including women isn't that it's a part of egalitarianism, but rather that modern feminism is about supremacy.
egalitarian? (Score:4, Interesting)
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Why do so many people think that feminists are not egalitarians?
From Wikipedia:
Feminism is a range of movements and ideologies that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve equal political, economic, cultural, personal, and social rights for women.
Emphasis mine. By definition, someone who does not believe in equality is not a feminist.
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Why do so many people think that feminists are not egalitarians?
Egalitarism is a MRA construct, courtesy of PBS. [youtube.com]
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That video is nonsense tarnishing PBS's otherwise good name.
Egalitarianism is literally thousands of years older than the first person to have ever strung the words "men's", "rights", and "activism" together in a row. Has that person never opened a history book?
Feminism has its roots as a subset of egalitarianism.
GGPP's question is analogous to "Why do you identify as a Californian instead of an American?" (and possible answers would be analogous too; someone might just be being more specific, or might be o
Re: egalitarian? (Score:2)
That video is nonsense tarnishing PBS's otherwise good name.
Egalitarianism is literally thousands of years older than the first person to have ever strung the words "men's", "rights", and "activism" together in a row. Has that person never opened a history book?
A lot of the videos that are like this and linked to PBS tarnish their name, and they don't seem to give a shit. And no, they've never opened a history book. In the video, the person in question directly states that feminism isn't a subset of egalitarianism, but rather feminism is the true face of egalitarianism.
The problem of course for a lot of people including women isn't that it's a part of egalitarianism, but rather that modern feminism is about supremacy.