Someone on here asked me if I'm a feminist. Maybe the fact that I'm a female theoretical astrophysicist could be one clue.
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@IonaItalia@AstroKatie This is why I prefer to step away from 'theory' & the movement now & focus on the issues impeding gender equality. -
I still support & work with ppl who ID as feminist & simply mean 'gender equality' by it but term does have baggage
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I think that's kind of inevitable when political movements go mainstream, but I'm fine w ppl IDing however they wish
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Labels are pretty ridiculous things to go to war over. I can't think of a single claim I could make ->
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about feminism as an ideology that wouldn't be greatly improved by specifying WHO, exactly. The NOW? ->
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Gloria Steinem? Tumblr? A specific professor, or school, or faculty? etc.
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2 me, it's simply the belief that men and women deserve equal opportunities & no1 shd be oppressed or
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punished just 4 their sex. That's the sense in which I hear it most often used, 2.
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That is very annoying.
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