What type of feminist are you? Marxist/Socialist Feminist, Liberal Feminist, Radical Feminist, or something else?

IcyTrapezium · 2025-02-15T06:35:15+00:00

Marxist feminist here. Liberal feminism in practice almost totally ignores class. I believe class is the primary basis of oppression, not gender.

As for Marxism in practice, I prefer a Scandinavian style state. Robust social safety net but a regulated free market for non-essential goods and very strong trade unions.

Outside_Memory5703 · 2025-02-14T19:52:23+00:00

Garden variety equality of the sexes

Corbast7 · 2025-02-15T00:53:05+00:00

Marxist feminist.

Any worldview not based in materialism inevitably falls apart when put under pressure. “Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds” is my commie hot take for you.

Pola_Lita · 2025-02-14T20:07:44+00:00

It makes my head spin a little :)

I'm somewhere between liberal and radical; our society is in a large part patriarchal but that's not automatically a bad thing.

fakingandnotmakingit · 2025-02-14T20:08:24+00:00

I've got shades of all of them haha

I think most of our issues is part of capitalism, but I'm not Marxist because I think communism and full socialism doesn't work.

I'd like a mix of socialism for things like basic food, shelter, healthcare and education but capitalism for most everything else.

Just not unbridled capitalism that we have today.

But I have shades of libfem and radfem as well. At the end of the day I think gender roles should be abolished and gender shouldnt impact our ability to gain influence or money in society within reason (obviously men will likely still dominate more physical jobs because they're physically stronger. Women will likely still be he ones to take time off work in the first couple years of a child's life due to recovery and breastfeeding etc)

I guess if I had to pick I'm mostly libfem?

CatchPhraze · 2025-02-14T21:46:48+00:00

Lib, rad, most Important though is intersectional.

I'm also a smidge too terf'y for the most liberal groups (using menstruation/womb haver instead of just women might be more inclusive but is derogatory, a lot of trans women come into women spaces with male centercism and privilege still)

But way too non terf for terfs (trans women are real women, they deserve and need feminism as much or more than CIS for example)

mlo9109 · 2025-02-14T19:55:11+00:00

I guess if I had to pick one, liberal. Though, I actually don't consider myself a feminist because I am not a fan of what the movement has become in recent years. It's gone from supporting women and their choices to picking up every pet project along the way and shunning or insulting women who do not fall in line with the majority.

sibylofcumae · 2025-02-14T22:55:49+00:00

I’m a gynist.

Tylikcat · 2025-02-14T20:32:46+00:00

I'm an intersectional feminist.

False-Purple3882 · 2025-02-14T22:06:11+00:00

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Objective_Ad_6265 · 2025-02-15T13:04:11+00:00

Probably mix of liberal and socialist. But I don't belive economy is the cause.

I think that society should redistribute resources to ensure basic human needs like medical care, housing, education... to all people but with free market for non-essential goods. Scandinavian countries and European countries in general are a good example. Sure it's not perfect, you can always improve or better balance the system but it's the right way in my opinion.

I think the western system itself is already equal, it's just residual gender stereotypes in society that could be the problem. So the solution is to educate about equality to eliminate unecessary gender stereotypes. But of course I don't want to deny real physical and other differences between genders.

Regarding economy I believe the real reason for pay and job inequality is motherhood, not that it affects me as a childfree woman. So maybe that's something that could be improved in the system althought I'm not sure how as it doesn't concern me personally.

attendquoi · 2025-02-14T19:39:51+00:00

I'm generally libfem but can vibe with radfems as long as they aren't TERFs.

-Shes-A-Carnival · 2025-02-15T00:16:26+00:00

i am not a feminist

missmireya · 2025-02-15T02:03:41+00:00

I hate feminists. But I also despise most men.

Glad I got that all off my chest.

oppositegeneva · 2025-02-14T20:36:15+00:00

Liberal Fem with a dash of Radical Fem, primarily because I acknowledge the existence of the patriarchy.

Men and Women should have identical legal rights and opportunities.
In my personal life I believe gender roles exist for a reason, but in the same way I up hold certain religious beliefs I would never expect someone else to abide by the gender roles I believe exist.

Fancy-Statistician82 · 2025-02-14T20:38:34+00:00

Liberal feminist.

And chatgpt mostly exacerbates underlying contentiousness.

I'm a huge fan of my cousin benefiting from "blind orchestral audition" where the entire hiring process occurs behind a screen, no name, no speaking, no gender.

Obvi, that's more difficult in client facing jobs. But we can try.

Anyhow, I love men, I married one, I love my dad and my brother and my son and several close male friends and colleagues. Men are great. But I do wish that opportunities were a bit more equal. I've got my own colorful stories about being treated poorly in professional capacity in a way that is difficult to assign to anything other than dinosaur sexism.

EulenWatcher · 2025-02-14T20:41:10+00:00

It's hard to say, because I have a mix of views from all branches of feminism. When asked I usually say that I'm egalitarian feminist - I believe that we should strive for legal equality and opportunities for both genders. I do believe that capitalism contributes to gender inequality, and that capitalism as it is now is not sustainable long-term.

My contentious take: most developed western countries do not have legal capitalism, and they mostly have social remains of it dictated by religion, social norms and stereotypes. Average men experience more pressure and harm from these remains rather than they get benefits from them. Women are responsible for toxic masculinity and gender stereotypes as much as men are.

Ideal World: mostly genderless laws and their implementations with the caveat for certain biological differences, equal opportunities for men and women; much lower consuming and production rates, more environmentally-onsious practices, universal income and automation to compensate for lower birth rates.

S0yslut · 2025-02-14T21:24:59+00:00

Non-feminist. I don’t agree with any government interference to make us equal under the law except for voting and criminal liability. You aren’t owed employment if you can’t do the job and I don’t believe in pandering to people because I believe that’s sexist or whatever sort of ist or ism.

-Blatherskite · 2025-02-14T20:16:44+00:00

Which one do I relate to the most? Radical feminism. But to hell with TERFs. I view trans women as women.

Title	What type of feminist are you? Marxist/Socialist Feminist, Liberal Feminist, Radical Feminist, or something else?
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Date	February 14, 2025 7:38 PM UTC (1 year ago)
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