I like the Rebecca West quote: “I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.”

Yes, in the sense that I believe men and women should have equal rights. I suspect people who say they aren’t feminists have a different definition of it.

Yes, although I really do have to question the capability of concern silos to effect change through society.

Women’s rights are human rights. Lgbt rights are human rights. Worker rights are human rights.

The fight for human rights is a fight for us all. United we stand, divided we fall. And holeeeshit are we fucking falling right now.

I really don’t feel the need to identify myself as any sort of -ism.

What matters more to me is how you act. It doesn’t matter if someone identifies as a feminist if they don’t act like one.

I think I do, but I’m probably not the best to evaluate my own behavior.

Anyway, since we’re on the topic, it recently came to my attention that most top charts for media like music, films and online content is absolutely dominated by men. For no particular reason, it’s just what people consume. I wonder why. Coming from a place that is seemingly more equal than most of the world, I’m surprised that the people here, even the women, are still consuming more content made by men than by women. So I set out to change my own consumption. Looking through my YouTube subscriptions I found that I myself was watching only content from men, so I started subscribing to more women doing content within my usual interests. I mean, I’m not looking for women doing things because they’re women, but rather women doing things that everyone might do, but they just happen to be women. It’s difficult. It feels like fighting against the algorithms just to find it, and I gotta say, a lot of the content made by women is still trying to get subscriptions based on the idea that everyone on the internet is a man. Seriously, women. When I’m searching for geeky stuff I’m not going to subscribe to your ass or breasts. Take that shit to OnlyFans or whatever. I actually want to hear or watch the topic from your perspective. And seriously, men… please behave. It’s so fucking cringe to read your lustful comments anytime a smart women dares present her face in any of the serious channels. I definitely understand why women upload less content if that’s the feedback they get.

Well, I did manage to find some channels worth subscribing to, and at the moment I’m probably up to a third of my subscriptions being from women. I don’t think I can push it much further without having to watch things that I have no interest in or which conflicts with any of my already mentioned points. I’ll also have to acknowledge that there are differences in what topics interests men and women enough to post about or consume.

However, finally, I would suggest anyone who ever searches for something to sometimes get the woman to explain it to you instead of choosing the man every time.

Yes, and I don’t really feel the need to clarify or weaken that stance by carving a really specific definition or “but not this or that”.

I’m a feminist, take that as you will.

I see feminism as a component of minimizing heirarchy and moving toward anarchy.

Instead of the liberal conception of rights, I would use equality of individual liberty and social solidarity regardless of gender or sex. Definitionally, I claim gender as performative and sex as related to procreative genitals. Maybe it’s all just worbs, that is, political words without meaning.

Those in favor of heirarchy use “equality of outcome” as a bludgeon. Humans do not need “equality of outcome”. We need autonomy to make choices about our lives. We need societies that take care of each other. Heirarchies such as patriarchy prevent making choices and taking care of each other.

As a bonus rant, the rube statement, “What is a woman?”, can be answered with, “Who is pink for?”. The provocateur wants to conflate gender and sex, but is too embarassed to come out and discuss genitals. A logical follow-up for the embarassed trap-setter could be, “Which genitals taste the best?”. The point being don’t entertain traps with anything but hostility.

I know posting is masturbatory, since I often fail to read replies. I’m sure your reply will be great and I will probably fail to read it. I’m still working on social solidarity.

I believe in equal rights and opportunities for all, be they man, woman, in between or none of the above.

But saying (and perhaps believing) one is a feminist and actually acting like one are often two different pairs of shoes. We all are confronted with so much discrimination, with so much bias, with so much misogyny, it takes active labour to actually behave like a feminist, because no matter how you think about yourself, at some point and to some degree, all that shit we get confronted with every day will rub off on us, and we have to understand that and constantly check ourselves so that it does not influence us in our thought patterns. Constant mental garbage collection, if you want.

That is true for all kinds of discrimination, no matter what it is based on.

I do believe gender is a social construct that’s becoming outdated. And that we shouldn’t have nor woman nor men, at all.

Make of that what you want.

Feminism as often defined:

the belief that women should be allowed the same rights, power, and opportunities as men and be treated in the same way, or the set of activities intended to achieve this state. Is something I agree with support.

I wouldn’t call myself a feminist because I think the word is basically broken. Too many people use it in a different way than this definition. Too many people think that if you are a feminist you have to agree with other things or you are not a feminist. I would describe myself as a humanist; I think.

I believe that men, women and all other genders that people are constructing these days - whether real or fabricated, zero fucks - should be treated equally in the eyes of the law, they should have equal pay, should be given the same opportunities and should be treated with equal respect. If that makes me a feminist, then cool.

I also believe that the reason the term gets a bad rap sometimes is because of the general stage humanity finds itself in. Consider this, for hundreds and hundreds of years men had the upper hand and only very recently did we start this process of equalizing women.

I imagine society like a car going down the road, when you lose control in a turn, the knee-jerk reaction is to steer the other direction and for a brief moment there you’re going way over to the other side before eventually correcting/ normalizing your course. Imho this is what happens with every new concept that gets introduced, there’s an overreach before normality ensues.

It’s even more pronounced with LGBTQ people. They were hidden, non existent in the eyes of society, and now we’re at the parade stage. My prediction is that soon there will be no need for it.

My definition of feminism: a struggle historically led by women to dismantle the structures of power that let cis men hold privileges over other gender expressions

With that in mind, yes, I’m a feminist. I don’t buy into the “no gender” thing, because in the way some people frame it, it erases the lived realities of gender oppression that still exist. The aim should be to dismantle gender hierarchies without ignoring how they operate here and now. Stripped of its anti-oppression context, no gender rhetoric can be co-opted into TERF narratives that reduce womanhood to biology and genitalia and deny gender diversity

Stretching it a bit, I also see animal liberation as part of this struggle, since these same power structures keep female non-human animals in the role of breeders and providers, much like they do with humans

If feminism is defined as equal rights for all things that are not gender relevant I agree. But there are a lot of really good exception, where it makes sense that we acknowledge differences. Like pregnancy, physical differences and so on. In short everything that can be equal should be.

No.

And I got banned from Lemmygrad for saying that,
but I’ll try iterating it again here hoping I won’t be this time around.
Reasons ordered from strongest to weakest.

1. Gender exclusiveness is in the name.

I don’t like any movement that has some form of exclusiviness in their name
other than nationality when they are indigenous to the land or ideology of the likeminded.
Any movement that has sex, age, sexual orientation,
but especially race in their name, immediately raises suspicions in me.
My country used to have a 50+ political party and while I don’t think the general public
thought of them as anything other than that ‘lovely little grandma and grandpa party’,
my first thoughts went to banning the party for age discrimination.

The only thing I think that sets apart the feminist movement from other supremacist movements
is that I believe that humans have taken an evolutionary path that has resulted with fewer women
with dominant and mean personalities and
while I think current technology/economics would allow such thing to happen if
it were to run for several more generations, near future technology/economics won’t.

And that makes this movement much less dangerous than
other supremacist movement that is far quicker to cheer on genocide.

2. Not agreeing with things feminists have said about themselves

Most of all, all the “If it weren’t for us…” statements.

I fail to see how it was not inventions that changed society as a whole in most cases.
Household chores used to be a full time job.
Paper, ink and education was something only the rich could afford,
so forget about voting, including for men.
War has gotten more and more mechanic and even robotic,
so the draft has gotten rare as well.
Bank accounts stopped being a rich people only thing as well.

Other statement like “the Feminist movement is about equality between women and men.”
to which I say
“Sure sure, and the Trump movement is about equality between Trumps and non-Trumps. That’s why we needed more Trumps in leadership positions.”

3. I consider there to be an imbalance demographic imbalance between the sexes,
   and I consider this to be an issue on the relationship market,
   and myself as a (perpless) victim of it, so it hits me personally.
   I also consider this to be something that dropped power into women’s hands
   and I don’t think leaders of the feminist movement would want to happily give up on that

This is the more controversial one that gets me banned.
Due to new technology, demographics skew towards more men
of adult age, so not counting the elderly or children.
For every ethnic group that would mean advantages for that group,
but when the demographic group is about the sexes,
the less there are of you, the more power you have.

If I were the only male, I’d be king of the world,
heterosexual women at my feet, protected and wanted by even the most powerful presidents.
I could exploit it to the fullest and powerful women could and would block other
women from ever coming near to me, physically or through manipulation.

This shortage gives women the power to exploit men.
And since it’s a semi-permanent power, there’s little anyone can do to mitigate the issue,
apart from society inventing new technologies that will balance or skew the scale to the other side,
which could happen in ten years or so.

“The universe doesn’t entitle you to a girlfriend”
Then I would say that that IS a true statement,
but then I also am not entitled to an income,
a car, a house, food, water, electricity and other basic necessities,
but I do think that I am entitled to live in a society
that prioritizes to have these necessities in abundance supply.

I don’t like these kind of statements that turn the political into the personal.
It’s similar to the “You’re on your own kid. Just get a job. Improve yourself” statements when someone loses their income and house.

“Women are not stock. They are human beings. Stop comparing our bodies to objects.”
I say that employees and employers are also human beings.
There’s a demand and supply of that too and yet again
I’d like to say that I’m entitled to live in a society
where unemployment is down to 0%,
so employers with jobs would be in full supply.
And if I’m the only male on the planet,
I would have no qualms saying that there’s a shortage of supply in men.
There’s an abundance of supply of men right now.
Just because women want relationships, and thus there being a demand for men,
does not mean that I think men or women are objects or livestock.

“It’s not the quantity of women that’s the issue, it’s the quality of men”
I find that hard to believe since both men and women are each other’s counterparts,
made from the same DNA cloth who evolved by procreating with each other.
So an insult to one sex in terms of quality can only be an insult to the other.
Unless you want to go the uhm… “other route”
you know the “What do you mean Karen when you say that there’s more low-quality men these days?”
But I’ll be disagreeing with racists on such statements or conclusions on such statements as well.

Quantity however is something that used to be balanced by nature,
where boys and men died more often from the plague, cholera and other diseases.
Most of us don’t live in that kind of society anymore.
We have tamed the animal kingdom down to the virus and bacteria
and now men are in a significant abundance.

4. Issue #3 makes me doubt the authenticity of people supporting feminism.

I’ve seen the fat acceptance or body positivity movement implode almost overnight the moment Ozempic got popular.
Apparently, people weren’t all that positive about their bodies the moment they could easily lose weight.
And I’m expecting to see the same with feminism once technologies that boost up the number of adult women becomes popular.

I wrote here my honest opinion only to be mocked. Fuck you all, I’m not going to answer this online ever again.

And no, I wasn’t sexist.