@librorumprohibitorum: Sexism is ignoring a person's individualism and replacing it with stereotypes and generalities of a social group that you place them in. For instance, taking arguments made by straight white men and declaring them ignorant because they were said by straight white men. Those straight white men couldn't possibly say anything resembling logic or fairness, the misogynist bastards. They wouldn't know what it's like to have their individuality demeaned or dismissed in favor of negative stereotypes.
@MeaslyTwerp; there is as much need for feminism as there is for 'masculinism' or any ideology that favors one gender over another. Which is why people who really care say they are egalitarian. Feminism cannot, by definition, be worried about equality over being worried about women. It's why they chose to use a word for female in their name rather than a word for equality. I will never understand how anyone chooses an ideology that is concerned for the welfare of a single group, and sees everything that another group does as threatening, even when it amounts to playing games quietly all by themselves, and then has the nerve to say it's 'for equality'.
The places where feminism is 'needed' is the third world and brutal theocracies, not free Western liberal democracies. Especially not in western democracies in which women make up the second-largest voting bloc at 57%, are better employed, live longer, are more safe, and have millions of dollars funnelled to organizations that are only looking out for the welfare of women. Despite all this, I get told how western countries 'need feminism'. No, it's women who can't go outside without putting on a burka that need the protection, it's women (and men) who suffer depravity because of whatever ridiculous caste they were born in, it's women who suffer being mutilated because of people believing in supernatural nonsense like witches and curses, these are the people who need help. But they'll never receive it, because western feminism is too busy attempting to stop men from enjoying anything that doesn't have women in it, anything that has women in it that are too sexy, too weak, too strong, too aggressive, too passive. A man wants a woman to put on more clothes, he's a misogynist, stop telling women how to dress. A man wants a woman to take off some clothes, he's a misogynist, don't abuse her with your gaze. There's no winning, and even when some men give up, and just try to invest their energies into art that has nothing to do with women, they're STILL misogynists because the art doesn't interest women enough. Remember, men, the only way you can have value is if women think you have value.
The only thing that keeps me sane is knowing that more and more women are refusing to play into the victimization, the threat narrative and the endless sense of personal entitlement that feminism advocates for. Without them I don't know what I would do.
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