feminist?

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  • GeorgesII0

    o you agree or disagree that women and men should have equal rights?
    If you agree then you are an egalitarian, regardless of what you think egalitarianism is, regardless of what ridiculous quotes you saw attributed to egalitarian on tumblr, regardless of the extremes some egalitarian take the cause, and regardless of your understanding of what hardships women may or may not face.

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    it's quite easy, but if you subconsciously believe that calling equal right for all of us feminism, so be it,
    doesn't change that feminism doesn't advocate for the rights of millions of males that are suffering the same hardship of women in third world countries, I guess it's easier to believe that male child soldier/factory worker/miners/etc are having fun just because they are male and they don't deserve the same rights for education, love and protection as oppressed women.

    egalitarianism:
    Egalitarianism (from French égal, meaning "equal")—or, rarely, equalitarianism[1][2] or equalism[3]—is a trend of thought that favors equality for all people.[4] Egalitarian doctrines maintain that all humans are equal in fundamental worth or social status, according to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.[5] According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the term has two distinct definitions in modern English.[6] It is defined either as a political doctrine that all people should be treated as equals and have the same political, economic, social, and civil rights[7] or as a social philosophy advocating the removal of economic inequalities among people or the decentralization of power. Some sources define egalitarianism as the point of view that equality reflects the natural state of humanity.[8][9][10]

    • It's called feminism because it's about extending rights to women to bring them up to the level of men, not about equalizing (which means lowering one side and raising the other to be the average).i_monk
    • means lowering one side and raising the other to the average).i_monk

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