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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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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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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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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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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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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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There's nothing inherently wrong with machoism. You don't have to be less masculine, or more feminine to believe in gender equality.
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All this needs to be said and is absolutely spot on
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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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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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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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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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We are all “Feminists” now
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