My experience with feminism is very different than yours. Even in the 1970s, my mother was not legally allowed to get a bank account once she was married.

My sister was told by our high school guidance counselor to major in secretarial studies in college, because she was pretty. She did that for a couple years and then said, "Forget that!" and went off to a successful career in environmental policy and leadership. The world is better because she did that -- and she had to fight some feminist fights along the way.

I told that same high school counselor he had nothing useful to offer me - and ended up being the only woman in some of my engineering classes. I even had to raise a ruckus just to be in those engineering classes because the professors didn't want a woman there -- and that's in the 1980s. I've been told I had to wear a dress or polyester pantsuit to work, while guys could wear jeans -- all of us working on computers, out of the view of the public.

You say, "The definition of feminism that I use is the advocacy of women's rights based on equality of sexes. " But then you also say, "I've got no issue with equal rights." In all my experience, feminism is all about equal rights -- as human rights. In all my experience, feminism is not about the equality of sexes. It's about the equality of rights - in finances, in legal matters, in education, in work, in access , in opportunity.