Comment what you think the definition of feminism actually is.

iainmf · 2022-07-10T10:03:36+00:00

I've locked this thread. OP, it's not fair for the members of this sub to answer the most basic of questions. Especially when the answers are readily available.

Please read the Reference Book on Men's Issues, here: https://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/wiki/index#wiki_the_reference_book_on_men.27s_issues_.28rbomi.29.

It answers a lot of your questions.

When, you've done that, send me a message an I will unlock the thread.

shit-zen-giggles · 2022-07-10T04:22:34+00:00

An ideology pretending to be about equality so as to silence any opposition while in reality only pushing for equality where women are disadvantaged and using any means necessary to maintain inequality in those areas where women are actually advantaged.

sgt_oddball_17 · 2022-07-10T04:43:46+00:00

"Women good, Men bad"

fonzarelli24891 · 2022-07-10T04:04:43+00:00

It is a skin mask of equal rights and fair treatment worn by sociopaths to benifit themselves.

dw87190 · 2022-07-10T04:28:18+00:00

A misandrist female supremacist movement. Narcissistic in their projection, sociopathic in their bid for world domination, psychopathic in their hateful lack of empathy for men

Side note: We should be treating feminism as a psychological profile, rather than just a political movement that is dishonest about both their ends and means, due to the fact that there are a great many equalists who naively mislabel themselves as feminists and a great many feminists who will pretend they aren't in the presence of those like us who know what feminism really is

EricAllonde · 2022-07-10T04:59:03+00:00

Feminism is simply the lobbying effort for the advancement of women's interests.

Feminism demands more advantages & privileges for women, in all circumstances, all the time and without limitation.

Even in contexts where women already have more rights, privileges or advantages than men, feminists demand even more for women - the exact opposite of the "equality" feminist propaganda claims to want.

There has never been a single situation where feminism has reached its goal of equality and then stopped. There is simply no mechanism built into feminism to make it stop when equality is achieved. Instead, in every single case, feminism has continued to push forward past equality, demanding ever more for women no matter how much of an advantage they now have.

There has never been a single situation where feminism has acted to correct a gender imbalance that favored women. On the contrary, in every such case feminism has only worked to entrench and further increase female privilege. In cases where men are clearly and indisputably disadvantaged feminism actively works to oppose and block all efforts to implement reforms that would move towards gender equality.

Feminism has become the biggest obstacle to achieving true gender equality that exists today. Gender equality can only be achieved by first destroying feminism.

Reddit1984Censorship · 2022-07-10T04:11:31+00:00

Intolerant political force dedicated to empower women over men regardless of equality, fueled by the gaslight/blocking of any progress on men social and legal rights and the purposely hurting and disadvantaging of men with the goal of directing as much of society's attention and resorces to exclusevily help women, guided and applied by the indoctrination of patriarchy theory across all the instutions of our society wich by definition will always justify harming men for the sake of women.

Darkwolf90 · 2022-07-10T04:44:45+00:00

A female supremacy movement. The main reason that this is in contention is due to the radically different context between its beginning, modern times and the whitewashing of its actual history.

Punder_man · 2022-07-10T05:04:43+00:00

Campaigning for female supremacy while also denying / stripping rights and or protections from men on the grounds of claiming to be for equality of the sexes.

Seems pretty accurate based off of what we see coming out of feminism today to me..

EmirikolWoker · 2022-07-10T05:28:21+00:00

Definitions are less useful than examination of premises and actions - north Korea is a Peoples Democratic Republic, but the definition of those words is a far cry from the truth.

In any case, the foundational principles of all flavours of feminism (class warfare between men and women with men winning, shorthanded as "Patriarchy") are inherrently anti-male when you examine what needs to be true for it to accurately describe reality. Feminists can claim that it's "just about equality", but it's equality based on bigotted assumptions, presuming psychopathy on the part of men as a class.

Mens rights advocacy, and Egalitarian values in general, are innately anti-feminist.

duhhhh · 2022-07-10T04:18:38+00:00

If the influential feminist researchers, professors, lobbiests, public policy makers, journalists, authors, politicians, and protesters (and the "real feminists" using their work rather than calling out their sexism, bias, bigotry, data manipulation, outright lies, etc) were to follow the dictionary definition of feminism rather than the man hating spirit of feminism, we could just accept that definition. It's a shame we can't.

arrouk · 2022-07-10T07:09:39+00:00

What does this actually have to do with men's rights?

PandaFoo1 · 2022-07-10T05:03:07+00:00

A movement defined by favouritism and pedestalisation of women & antagonisation of men & belief of inherent guilt on their part.

DouglasMilnes · 2022-07-10T08:35:09+00:00

It is not what any definition is that is important to MRAs, It is the interference and unremitting opposition to the rights of men and children that is pertinent.

mikesteane · 2022-07-10T05:30:54+00:00

”A doctrine built on the pre-supposition of victimhood of women by men as a foundation of female identity. In its goals is always the utilization of the state to forcibly redress this claimed victimization. In other words, the proxy use of violence and wealth appropriation. In whatever flavor, and variation, these two basic features are common to every doctrine using the label feminism. Feminism is therefore, a doctrine of class hatred, and violence.” (John The Other, “Why not date a feminist?” A Voice For Men, 4 June 2012.)

Mandelbrot1611 · 2022-07-10T04:08:34+00:00

It's a movement that is trying to teach that women can't have equal value with men unless they give up their natural gender roles.

Halobruhv · 2022-07-10T05:00:40+00:00

pretending to fight for women rights when that fight done be fought....

Forsaken_Mode_2173 · 2022-07-10T05:28:03+00:00

It's funny how this topic has become a thing in my head... I was with a girl not long ago... And we were talking before making love... And she said a very interesting thing about feminism: "Feminism is over. We are living in the age of post-feminism. There are no genuine feminist issues left; only the consequences of feminism developing. "
It took so much time until I understood. There is no fight for sex equality anymore. I feel so dumb because I didn't understand at the time what she was talking about.

It's an interesting perspective because it may offer an answer to what feminism WAS. Feminism was the fight of women for rights and equality. The fight is over. Maybe what we've been living since then is something else.

Aquariumpsychotic · 2022-07-10T06:26:47+00:00

Equal treatment so get drafted equal prison time.

MathematicianSad1915 · 2022-07-10T06:37:58+00:00

First, second maybe third wave was about trying to get all people equal. This 4th or 5th wave shit is about bring men to our knees till we all submit or kill ourselves.

redandblackstar · 2022-07-10T08:18:06+00:00

Communism

freerossulbrich · 2022-07-10T08:36:39+00:00

I think feminist fight for women for the same way communist fight for workers' right.

If you ask communists, do you fight for CEO's right? They will stop conversation.

For the same reasons, feminists are actually hurtful to women that have good transactional relationship with men. Feminists are harmful to beautiful sugar babies like communism is harmful toward CEO

MydnightRose · 2022-07-10T06:59:19+00:00

1st Wave: Let us vote, can we play

2nd Wave: Lets go into the work place and get some equal pay

3rd Wave: Men Suck

4th Wave: All men are the devil so give me what you have without asking questions

qupOqup · 2022-07-10T07:35:11+00:00

"the belief women are equal to men"technically this is a definition of feminism. but crying out for the creation clearly unfair laws and policies that would theoretically discriminate against men isn't really fair, although you be the judge

arbelhod · 2022-07-10T07:46:37+00:00

A movement that started with the mission to make all people equal and did a 0retty good job, that until the leaders of the movement understood that they're so powerful, they cam get whatever they want, if they just say that it's sexist. For example, if u want more money, you fake statistics that says that you earn less money, even if it's not true, and then you can call everyone you want an incel if they caught you're lie

Terrible_Departure90 · 2022-07-10T08:12:26+00:00

The constant prioritizing, protecting, pedestalizing, advancing, and worshiping of persons that identify as woman at the expense of all persons that do not identify as woman.

iainmf · 2022-07-10T09:48:59+00:00

The predominate beliefs of people who self-identify as feminists, and the actions that result in those beliefs.

Beliefs such as:

Society benefits men at women's expense.
Women have been oppressed for thousands of years.
Men and women are largely the same.
Men have more rights than women.
Men have an in-group bias

Title	Comment what you think the definition of feminism actually is.
Author	MEZA2005
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Date	July 10, 2022 4:01 AM UTC (4 years ago)
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