this assessment is correct btw
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It's always defining a goal and asymptotically improving upon it, just like 'Liberty' meant 'for white landowning dudes' and has been refined over time. Were suffragettes feminist by today's standards? Is a hoplon a soldier today?
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I think that’s a fine and worthy answer if the claim was “a feminist is someone who believes in trans rights today, someone who favoured votes for women in 1920 etc”. But this is not at all the same as the claim - “a feminist is someone who believes women are people.”
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We may well welcome progress made in extending rights. And we may even want to characterise that progress as feminist/feminism. But then it doesn’t make sense to say that feminism amounts to nothing stronger/more controversial than the belief that women are people.
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how do you figure?
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Well you can believe women are people if you believe women are Homo sapiens and that a reasonable definition of people is that it refers to Homo sapiens. It doesn’t seem to me that belief additionally requires particular ever-evolving stances on the hot button issues of the day.
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