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Are you a feminist? (If so why, if not why not?) (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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Might help also to describe what you think feminism is, since it's one of those terms that is overloaded.

I once had a physical therapist tell me she wasn't a feminist because she thought women couldn't be as physically capable as men when serving as soldiers, and seemed to believe feminism requires treating women exactly like men.

I told her I was a feminist because I believe in equal rights for men and women, an idea she did not seem so opposed to.

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[โ€“] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I am not a feminist.

Feminism has a variety of different flavors with sets of specific ideals that are not a priority in my view, however the basic idea of equal rights is definitely important to me. The more I think about it, the less I feel I know what I'm talking about which is also why I don't wanna signify I have strong foundational knowledge on this topic. "Equality" is kind of baseline and not what you expect most kinds of feminism to expand to.

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  • [โ€“] [S] 1 point 1 year ago

    Hm, equality is precisely what I think feminism is about, some of the most famous feminist works like bell hooks' Feminism is For Everybody is entirely about how feminism is an egalitarian movement.

    What do you expect feminism to expand to, and why do you think that? It's interesting you feel like you might not know much about feminism - have you read or studied any feminist authors or books (like Simone de Beauvoir's Second Sex)? What has informed your view of what feminism is?

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