This is precisely why I don't identify as a feminist. People read it as shorthand for belief in patriarchy, rape culture & gender differences as a cultural construct. If I just say I support gender equality, they don't do that.https://twitter.com/quellist1/status/985478050069565440 …
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Otherwise you end up looking like an old crank yelling '"gay" means "happy", I tell you! That's how I've always used it and how I always will.'
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I don't think "feminism" (ref Rebecca West) was ever accepted as a valid political objective* isn't that the problem? "Gender" isn't a neutral/shorthand concept now, if it ever was, it's been appropriated by Patriarchal forces. Don't think I even know what it "might" mean anymore
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I don't know what you mean either.
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Ah, ok. If gender as a concept is redefined as being an intrinsic property, not a socially constructed overlay to a biological state - then all previous analysis of "gender" is rendered void. Gender Equality in this new context means, what?
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It is frequently claimed that all that is required to be a feminist is a desire for gender equality, but I think this is what they call the motte and bailey argument.
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Exactly. When roping in normies or debating, feminists will insist on the dictionary definition for feminism. However, in practice, feminists demand of each other that they be intersectional, anti-male, pro-palestine, anti-racist, vegan,.etc.
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