Feminism is a social/political movement and ideology that aims to achieve the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes. It is also a sub category of Egalitarianism that focuses primarily on women's issues. There are many different types of feminists with different ideas and approaches on how to achieve equality between the sexes such as radical feminists, liberal feminists, eco feminists, etc. There is also a pervasive attitude that feminism is only for women which is just not true, anybody can choose to be a feminist regardless of gender.
Joan: In class today we talked about feminism and what the movement is about, did you know that in the US child marriage is still legal?
Harriet: Yes! And in many states it is perfectly legal for police officers to have "sex" with people in their custody even though people in custody cannot consent.
Joan: How horrifying! Feminism still has a lot of work left to do.
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Ok, a lot of definitions on here are really defensive and sad. Who hurt you people? Feminism is just equal rights between men and women. How would you feel if your mother, sister, wife, or daughter was called a “bitch” or a “slut”? I hope you would feel horribly about it because that would be the normal human reaction to have. Jesus Christ you people are scary.
Joe: “Hello fellow human. Seeing as you are a female member of our shared species, I was wondering if you could explain to me what feminism is?”
Jane: “Of course fellow human being. Although, you don’t have to be a woman in order to understand feminism. It is the belief that although we have a few differences between us, we can easily co-exist in equal standing because we are both humans and don’t really have a whole lot of differences.”
Joe: “Oh, that’s nice. Do you wanna hangout with me and my pet dog?”
Jane: “Sure!”
And they lived happily ever after because at the end of the day, who cares about what our differences are when there is a dog that needs our attention.
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Definition that does not mean man hating, women being superior to men or other bullshit people wrote here. If there are women acting that way, than that is misandry which is the same as misoginy. There are male And female feminists, anyone can be that. Feminism is about equality, respect, body positivity etc. So basically, it's common sense
Alan:"Man, until my grandma told me, i didn't know previous generations of women have suffered that much. I even heard that women still aren't equal now. She told me about feminism"
Scarlett:" You should be lucky we STILL want equality instead of revenge
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A movement that is about in powering women and giving them equal right and helping men feel they can share there feelings without being less of a man.
Although many people believe this word means hating men, it doesn’t, and if you use it to talk about hating men then you are a disgrace feminism.
Feminism is a strive for equality.
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A person who believes women deserve to be seen and treated with the same respect as men. Reasons: Women get judged and degraded for things when men don’t (when girls have sex or wear revealing clothes they are sluts, hoes, slags, thots or whores but men are praised).
Women are objectified and sexualised all the time (e.g catcalling, and terms like ‘school girl’ being sexualised but not ‘school boy’. Songs about only women’s bodies) It makes women feel dirty & uncomfortable & unworthy as they feel they are seen for no more than their bodies. Men often feel they have a right to control women (in 18 countries husbands are legally allowed to prevent their wives from working)
Men often think everything is about them (e.g if a women wears makeup) Men often feel they own a woman’s body (in around 10 counties (used to be 36 in 2017) a husband r@ping his wife is legal & 1 in 6 women have been the victim of attempted or completed rape in the US (ofc men are r@ped too, but it’s much more common for women). It is more in other places)
Women are often seen as dumber than men (there has still not been a SINGLE US female president, women aren’t allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia and the term ‘housewife’ + the gender pay gap still exists).
There are many more reasons and more depth but I can’t make it too long. If society has made you misogynistic, you need to be open-minded & change. Feminism does not exist because women want power. Be smarter. Misogyny is not cool.
Lisa: Tony Lopez’s nudes are so hot!
Millie: Yeah, but have you seen MegNut’s? She’s a worthless slut.
30 year old male: Hey beautiful
12 year old girl: *ignores*
30 year old male: Nice ass!
12 year old girl: *feels horrible*
Jake: You’re a pussy, you cry like a girl! Man up and get some balls!
Leo talking about a girl minding her businesses: Look at her tits, I’d fuck her! She’ll be on her knees begging for more!
Ralph: Any girl who believes in feminism is unfuckable.
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we all became equal, now its just bad.
Feminism is now just Kill, maim, burn all men for having a penis.
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the radical notion that the genders are equal!
there are different types of feminism
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