Comments by "roidroid" (@roidroid) on "Marlene Zuk: What we learn from insects’ kinky sex lives" video.
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Destro7000 These "feminists" you're describing, who aren't striving towards equality, are what we call "Strawman Feminists", because they mostly only exist in people's heads and not in reality. You're not railing against feminism, you're railing against something else, something that doesn't even exist. A fake target.
Well i shouldn't say they don't exist at all, the world is pretty diverse and i've met some crazy people. But they are very rare, and certainly not what mainstream feminism is about. The thing is though, that most people who are anti-feminism like to argue against feminism by painting it as exactly what you described, they paint a weird picture of what feminism isn't - claim that this is actually what feminism is - and then use it to justify their stance against feminism. But really they are attacking something else, they're attacking a fake "Strawman".
I mean, if you're for egalitarianism and gender equality - then you may find that your viewpoints could be quite inline with feminism, and you're merely calling yourself something else. But on the other hand, if you get annoyed when people talk about gender issues, and think it's all dumb "feminist talk" instead of just normal human talk about important and highly relevant issues in our lives, then yeah you're probably not a feminist.
To me, it sounds like someone in 1700s America saying something like "Wow all this anti-slavery talk is so annoying, i wish people would just shut up about it." The fact that you don't think this is important weirds me out, but TBH it's a feeling that most feminists are pretty used to :(
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