I just found a highly compatible guy on OKCupid, who decided he didn't want to get to know me and that I must be a horrible person solely on the basis of our conflict about a questionnaire on feminism. :(
edit: elaboration requested and provided
OKCupid has this large pool of questions, mostly generated by users, and has more recently added a feature whereby you can make your answers public, and compare them with the profiles of others. A lot of the questions are very bad/simplistic/biased in their statement and/or the option of answers, and this was likely one of those. And the problem with the particular question is that it is just a pro-con, without discussion, though I could probably go back and put an explanation, which can be done. However, unless he is willing to consider my very brief and to the point response of "I am for equality of the sexes, and feminism is against this" then I essentially have no chance with him based on his preference for ideology over fact, which is funny because he is also an atheist. And unfortunately, I'm likely to encounter a lot of people that favor ideology over fact on this issue, here in Seattle.
edit2: to be super specific, the question was: If someone identifies as a feminist, does that raise or lower your opinion of them? He put raises, I put lowers. I have now added this explanation: "I am for the rights of both sexes. Feminism is for the rights of women without regard to the rights of men, which is an inherently evil stance." Though that probably wouldn't get past an ideological feminist, and I've almost certainly lost any chance with this guy.
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Did you call him a misogynist that will never get laid?
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