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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.
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.