I'm a college student. I met a girl yesterday through a mutual friend and she is amazing. After our friend left, we had a two hour long conversation over lunch in the dining hall and talked about all sorts of things. She's really intelligent and we're so similar in our ways of thinking, values, and interests that it kind of scares me. So now we're going out for lunch again on Saturday.
During our conversation, she brought up the fact that she identifies as a feminist (as is typical of most college women) and hates that there are so many man-haters (she even used the word "misandrists") within the movement. I told her that I used to be one but I became disillusioned with it (I never said antifeminist) so I stopped being one and she was fine with that. She does dismiss them as being "not real feminists." She didn't say "feminists don't hate men" because she acknowledged that there are man-haters within the movement and that they're ruining the movement. I know she's not a social justice warrior. We didn't talk enough about feminism for me to know what exactly she believes, but I get the sense that she's close to (but not quite) a Christina Hoff Sommers, but still buys into things like the wage gap. I can tell because C.H. Sommers says the same thing about the man-haters within the movement. She probably doesn't even know what patriarchy theory is, or, if she does, she might mention it in passing.
It'll most likely be easy to change her mind about feminism when I tell her about the actual theories that feminism is built on and the bad things that feminists have done and how they're based on feminist theory. She'd adopt the label "egalitarian" or maybe even "MRA" once she drops it. I can tell that most resistance I'd face is her attachment to the label "feminist" and/or dispelling the myths like the wage gap. She probably has more of an attachment to the label than anything else. That's what I was like when I was a feminist.
This is all speculation and is based on my intuition, but my intuition is usually right when it comes to women and detecting SJWs and other toxic ones. Still, she identifies as a feminist and I'm going on a date with her. I figured you all would find this interesting. That's why I'm making this long post on here.
Ask me anything and/or suggest something for me to say/mention/talk about during our conversation when the topic comes up.
Edit: Jesus Christ, stop telling me not to do it, trying to warn me, telling me she's going to falsely accuse me, telling me she's insane simply because she's a feminist, and/or trying to deter me in general. I'm going through with this no matter what. People date and even marry people with different political opinions all the time. Chris Ray Gun and Laci Green are dating and that's going just fine. I want to stick my head out of the internet MRA echo chamber and actually talk to people with different opinions than me. You should do it too. Otherwise you're no better than Steve Shives and the other SJWs who refuse to leave their echo chambers to talk to different people because they think the other side is legitimately evil and attack those who want to do so.
Again, I'm still doing this no matter what and you're not going to change my mind. This is an AMA thread and "give me some things to ask/say" thread, not a "convince me not to do this" thread.
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