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So basically, if I'm all for completely and perfectly equal rights, I'm extremely moderate on the issue?
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No, you're exactly right :) . Also, you're obviously not the majority in terms of application of attitude if such is the case, and thus need to further propogate it for the betterment of human society.
If you thought I was saying otherwise, read my post again.
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The problem with most -isms these days is that they started with the best of intentions.
Feminism was intended to bring women to equal opportunity and legal status as men.
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Unfortunately, this also now extends to some "feminist" arguments which are legitimate and do not deserve the societal connotation they are given.
That is what my point was in my previous post. Every time I make a "feminist" argument on the internet people immediately assume I am a butch lesbian. I'm tired of it. My arugment is not entirely "feminist" in the same way the number one is not entirely geometric- the context in which I make my reasoning should define such a label and not the nature of the reasoning itself.
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Some women are using that momentum to go farther. Thus, feminism and its negative connotations.
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So the "moderate" feminists relabel themselves. Now what? They'll most likely be relabeled as feminists by society anyways, because their arugments were similar.
Do you see what I am trying to get at with the problems of implicating an idea based on its more extreme followers?