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History of Feminism

malthaussen

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1. Friend of mine... 45 year old guy... made an interesting point

Reply to ismnotwasm (Original post)

Sat Mar 8, 2014, 01:10 PM

Mar 2014

He refuses to be labelled a feminist because 1) It isn't inclusive enough and 2) because there are too many people he does not want to be associated with who employ that label. I think there may be a lot of 2) going around.

Me, I refuse to be labelled a feminist because of 1). But I don't worry much about labels anyway.

-- Mal

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Whoa-----from "Seventeen" magazine "Are You A Feminist? [View all] ismnotwasm Mar 2014 OP

Friend of mine... 45 year old guy... made an interesting point malthaussen Mar 2014 #1

In what way is feminism not inclusive? Gravitycollapse Mar 2014 #2

Depends on whom you ask. malthaussen Mar 2014 #3

Feminism arose out of an unequal paradigm that still exists. ismnotwasm Mar 2014 #5

That's basically a slight against feminism to say it doesn't need to exist because of humanism. Gravitycollapse Mar 2014 #7

Which would tend to indicate that feminism is not inclusive. malthaussen Mar 2014 #8

I don't understand your need to have every movement cater to everyone else. That's ridiculous. Gravitycollapse Mar 2014 #9

But I have to reiterate, I make no such argument. malthaussen Mar 2014 #10

Many Black Feminists use the word ismnotwasm Mar 2014 #4

I was considered to not be a feminist back in truedelphi Mar 2014 #11

This is another example of how our words have been turned against us. calimary Mar 2014 #6

So many positive concepts have been tarred by media GeoWilliam750 Mar 2014 #12

+100,000,000 ismnotwasm Mar 2014 #13