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    Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 4h4 hours ago

    Helen Pluckrose Retweeted UN Women

    It's true that many feminists do this. However, so do the majority of non-feminists. Feminism certainly doesn't own the drive for political, economic & social equality. 1/2https://twitter.com/UN_Women/status/1081469111975272448 …

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    UN WomenVerified account @UN_Women
    Feminist = a person who believes in & stands up for the political, economic, and social equality of human beings. pic.twitter.com/5MMwk1bMyM
    1:21 am - 5 Jan 2019
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    • Commissar Jamal Starman in Elon's Roadster ʞɔɒ|ᙠ Я ʏƚɿɘdi⅃ 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐂𝐫𝐨𝐰 Chris Shelton Sorryst Illtrying drchap Pointing at reality Channing Walton
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      2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 4h4 hours ago

        2/2pic.twitter.com/RBQBeptCIY

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      3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 3h3 hours ago

        You don't have to identify as a feminist if you believe in gender equality any more than you have to identify as a Muslim if you believe in peace. Even if you think those slogans are true statements about the ideologies/movements, there's also more to them in theory & practice

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      4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 3h3 hours ago

        It is also OK to be critical of either of those ideologies and argue that they are not defined by their simple & positive slogans. But even if they were, that doesn't mean they own those positive attributes and people can only hold them by identifying with the ideologies.

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      5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 3h3 hours ago

        Someone could hold all the nicest values about brotherhood & caring for the vulnerable found in Islam but actually be a Christian or a Hindu or an atheist. Similarly, one can believe in gender equality but be a humanist or a liberal or an egalitarian rather than a feminist.

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      6. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 2h2 hours ago

        We really do need to extend the concept of secularism to political ideologies and movements as James argues at the end here:https://areomagazine.com/2018/12/18/postmodern-religion-and-the-faith-of-social-justice/ …

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      7. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 2h2 hours ago

        It is no more acceptable to tell me I really am a feminist because I believe in gender equality (and certainly not to make me write statements confirming this to get a job) than it is to tell me I am really a Christian because I believe in helping the poor & sick.

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      2. Peter‏ @unknowgenius10 3h3 hours ago
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Feminism brought a lot if light into these issues. To deny it will be to deny history. Although I'm not a feminist, fiminism helped me change the way I used to look at the world. I come from a country were machismo is very prevalent. Long live feminism

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      3. Anthony Taylor‏ @Ant_Taylor3 3h3 hours ago
        Replying to @unknowgenius10 @HPluckrose

        There's nothing inherently wrong with machoism. You don't have to be less masculine, or more feminine to believe in gender equality.

        0 replies . 0 retweets 3 likes
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      1. Antanas Obolenas‏ @AntObolenas 3h3 hours ago
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        All this needs to be said and is absolutely spot on

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      1. Jeff Smith‏ @jeffmhsmith 19m19 minutes ago
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        Labour M.P., Stella Creasy: “Feminism is not about women, it’s about power.”https://thoughtcatalog.com/jake-fillis/2014/05/23-quotes-from-feminists-that-will-make-you-rethink-feminism/ …

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      1. Stacey Jones‏ @joneseyvisitin1 32m32 minutes ago
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        A definition of feminism that erases women from the meaning is problematic. Equality is a socially conservative aim. Feminism has higher expectations of women and is not focused on competing with men in an increasingly messed up world. This is just liberal watering down.

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      1. Father Jack‏ @urcrazytoo 1h1 hour ago
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        That is not even a commonly-accepted definition of feminism. In fact it's seriously misleading and a bad place to start from.

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      1. Alec Voynov‏ @_dracon__ 2h2 hours ago
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        Reminds of the principle of blackwhite from 1984. Or the ramifications of it, which are: if you align with the ideology, you are always right, even if you call the black white; and if you do not align with it, you are always wrong, even if you do what the ideology stands for.

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      1. Maxime Libertas‏ @LibertyFanOne 3h3 hours ago
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        We are all “Feminists” now

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