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Do they still make these posters? (lemmy.today)

submitted 10 months ago by CMake to c/facepalm@lemmy.world

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[–] PoliticallyIncorrect@lemmy.world -5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I believe the term "feminism" have a discrimination connotation, maybe we should invent something like equalism.. sounds more accurate at least for me.

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Feminism is about equality. As long as we still have frequent female firsts, we're gonna need feminism. For example, we've been in space for 50 years, and just last year we had our first entirely female spacewalk. We are only now planning on sending a woman to the moon. Last year, the number of female CEOs finally outnumbered males... Named John.

We need equality, and in many cases, that means we need to improve the ways we as a society treat women.

[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

You're absolutely right, I'm not disagreeing with anything you said. It's just important to note that there are areas where gender stereotyping hurts men too, and those areas are being seized upon by anti-equality movements and used to frame the movement as feminists vs men when we as feminists could be framing them as feminists, including men, vs harmful stereotypes.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That is actually a major concern for feminism atm. The old guard stands by the term but it's toxic to the people it needs to reach.

You ask an angry young man if he's a feminist, he'll say no.

You ask him if he agrees with most feminist points, he'll usually say yes.