to focus on the fact that to be ‘feminist’ in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation from sexist role patterns, domination, and oppression.
That’s the dumbed definition of a word I’ve seen in quite a while. How about:
“advocating women’s rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes.”
They may do it by setting fire to a Theatre just to try to kill a single person, like a terrorist group, but at least this definition fits.
The whole “Feminism is for both sexes” has always been bullshit. You know it, I know it, everyone knows it.
TIL feminism started some 100 years after it actually started… Pretty sure its foundation was in the late 1800s, with it picking up steam in the early 1900s. Bell Hooks was born in the 1950s.
Brother are you coming a month after the conversation died down to argue semantics over the word “foundational” as a gotcha? I’m not saying she invented feminism I am saying she is a foundation to our modern understanding of feminism.
It’s real weird to get uppity about that specific terminology. I’m not writing an essay, I’m talking to people with the intention that my words be taken in good faith, not foolproof Grammer and word choice.
That’s the dumbed definition of a word I’ve seen in quite a while. How about:
“advocating women’s rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes.”
They may do it by setting fire to a Theatre just to try to kill a single person, like a terrorist group, but at least this definition fits.
The whole “Feminism is for both sexes” has always been bullshit. You know it, I know it, everyone knows it.
Buddy. That quote is from a foundational feminist writer. You don’t know what feminism is.
TIL feminism started some 100 years after it actually started… Pretty sure its foundation was in the late 1800s, with it picking up steam in the early 1900s. Bell Hooks was born in the 1950s.
Foundational my ass.
Brother are you coming a month after the conversation died down to argue semantics over the word “foundational” as a gotcha? I’m not saying she invented feminism I am saying she is a foundation to our modern understanding of feminism.
It’s real weird to get uppity about that specific terminology. I’m not writing an essay, I’m talking to people with the intention that my words be taken in good faith, not foolproof Grammer and word choice.