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I disavow the ignorance displayed in the statement that “Feminists always think women are better than men.” But felt important to share how well received such a message is received on this site.
Previous posts in this series:
—bell hooks, Feminism is for Everybody
Reminds me of
i really love this and also the amount of jpg distortion going on showing how loved and re-distributed this post was
It's like a well read book lmao
One part has even been removed with white digital ink. Fascinating
Yeah, it was the least potato version I could find lol definitely well loved..
I have always felt that feminism has had a marketing problem. I consider myself a feminist and I am for equal rights for all. But the issue with feminism is that it's easy to point to the word and use it to propagandize a people against it. The word evokes a priority towards women (which I believe it should), but that makes folks feel like there are people out to be against them which is not what the movement is about.
And then you have the people who claim to be feminist who are really just misandrists who want to see men broght down to achieve equality or who want to see women be valued higher than men. In reality, the way forward should be to lift women up to the level that society holds men. It shouldn't be a battle of sexes.
Feminism also (in name only) sorta precludes anyone who isn't female. So non-binary? Get fucked I guess? I think there really ought to be a better way to market an equality movement than labelling it for women, even if that is the primary target of increasing equality.
It would be like calling a racial equality movement blackism and then saying you represent all race's equality. That specifically disregards all races not considered black from a marketing perspective, even if your movement's actions are positive representation for all races.
I mean, I do think that using the term Feminism for movements that aren't about women seeking equality is kind of a stretch of the original word. If the focus of the movement has changed so much that defining it as the original focus isn't accurate anymore, a new word should be used for the new movement instead. I'm undereducated on modern Feminist theory but this seems to me to be self-evident and I've never seen a good argument why referring to gender-related egalitarianism as Feminism has more positives than negatives.
you should read that work by hooks, it’s linked and available right there
I noticed it was a direct PDF download (based). I have a 7 hour car ride coming up, if it doesn't make me too carsick I might read it!
godspeed! this channel also has a sort of audiobook of it with some commentary in case you’re as bad with visual carsickness as me 🥴
Thank you spujb, you're very helpful :)
I thought political beliefs were three dimensional before I entered Lemmy. Now I think there's four
gotta be at least 5 tbh
Might just be one moving in circles
A spiral, going downwards with no bottom in sight.
The worst opinion you've ever seen
Yup, that's about what I expect every week or so
I have encountered a lot of this mentality on Lemmy. Sometimes I go to engage, but it's simply not worth it.
You won't be able to inform folks with these opinions in a content aggregator forum, it's just not the place for learning (and 196 is much less so).
Also is this OC in 196? Isn't that sort of against the spirit of the community?
it’s just not the place for learning
awww dont tell me what to do :( i have learned much on this site and now i’m contributing back. i like doing my part to make the places i hang out nicer for everyone :)
Also is this OC in 196?
yes
Isn’t that sort of against the spirit of the community?
no i have done it for years
I only engage to make them feel unwelcome for having a bigoted view.
Wario’s origin story.
https://fedia.io/m/[email protected]/t/1488712/-/comment/8371814
seriously what the fuck. at least his replies are in the negatives. i suspect a troll, but all these upvotes??
How hard is it to manipulate votes on Lemmy instances? I'm guessing the answer varies depending on the instance but I don't think it's completely impossible on any of them.
Very easy
To back this statement up, there was/is a vegan community that would ban anyone who downvoted a post in their community so that sub would jump to the frontpage, because anyone who was banned could no longer vote on its content.
Whenever I see such situations I'm glad I have created an account on hexbear after they federated, because I know they don't tolerate this shit. All the ex-reditors on those instances tell each other scary campfire stories of the things hexbears did when they were federated with them (or as is the case .world, the things they could do if they were hypothetically federated), but as can be seen from the upvotes on that post, they are the people who would most benefit from being haunted by them for their takes.