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RE: Do men need to check their privilege?
I don't understand why she would call herself a feminist though. The whole point of feminism is to say men have it easier because of their sex/gender, the whole point is to say that men created the world for their benefit and at the expense of others. That's why I don't understand how someone who can see some of the lies and even calls them out would identify as such.
She has other videos where she talks about how fake stats and feminism running on myths not facts is actually hurting women and stuff like that. She is a feminist but not the kind that plays victim. She is a strong indempendant woman that is highly educated and not falling for anyones bullshit no matter the gender. I think has a lot to do with the fact that she wants equality like feminists use to want. Im just guessing though as for I can not speak on her behalf nor would I want to.
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Guess that's the big difference from 3rd wave movement and traditional feminists that just wanted equality.
nit-picky feminism does ruin things for women. like the biggest issue is whether a guy calls a woman 'sweetie' and that's supposed to mean he's evoking patriarchy. The personal is political gets taken way too far.
I agree.
im sure they will try to push the political/personal even more given time.
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Feminism started out as women having rights they were denied, which should be fundamental to all. Contrasting with men is where it goes wrong I'm totally with you. How hard a persons life is relates to individual circumstances. Anyone can look around and see there's both men and women who have it rougher than ourselves.
I try to not let misogynists be representives of men's rights. I appreciate it when men don't see misandrists as representing the base ideas of women's rights. As CHS says, there's no need for this divisiveness.
One thing I dislike about feminism is the focus on 'parity' in careers. I would like to see more women in trades but whether or not its ever 50/50 doesnt matter.
It's easy to say 'well women arent taking up these blue collar careers', but it's true there are obstacles for women which are a strong influence; not all job sites have accomodations in camps for women, maybe it is logical for women to be wary of working with all men in certain environments. And there's still many social deterents which I've known personally. It became easier for me to do my own thing and test my comfort zone when I got into my late 20s. People are very young when they leave high school to decide on what career to try. So it makes sense why women end up in universities over trades, at least to me. How many women are ever exposed to that kind of work. A lot of schools stopped having shop classes when the 'get a degree' shit started being applauded as the thing to do to be successful.