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Today I did actually find a feminist in darkest Kent. I cleaned her sofas for her.
Anyway, over tea, I asked this woman the usual questions (as previously shown on this thread) and she explained that she is a feminist and that most of her 'midwife' colleagues are feminists as well, all based at a Kent major hospital's birthing unit.
However, she told me that her particular group would find the presence of a 'feminist male' to be 'unusual' and probably 'uncomfortable' for them. She also used the word 'inappropriate'. I got on well with her, and she smiled a lot about the concept, but at least she didn't fall about and screech a lot like the scores and scores of other women I have spoken to.
Well, as I said, the situation in the UK is likely very different than here in the States.
Anyway...... your post looks like feminism is the same as egalitarianism, the same as feminism. Have I got that about right?
They are effectively the same thing. There's only one difference: egalitarianism goes beyond gender inequality and addresses other issues.
IOW, egalitarianism is an umbrella term, and I think all of us are egalitarian. Feminism is a form of egalitarianism, focusing primarily on issues of gender inequality.
Excuse me for not being 100% clear last night; it was quite late at night.
However, there's something that really needs to be clear: feminism doesn't have any cut-and-dry rules or sets of values beyond supporting gender equality. There are variations on how extreme that's to be taken, what constitutes gender inequality, etc.
To take more examples from video games, there are feminists who have real problems with games like Dead or Alive, whose only major contribution to the world was its pioneering work on breast jiggle physics(which pretty much violate every single actual law of physics... I, as a heterosexual male, honestly find it gross), and its beach vollyball spin-offs that are pretty much nothing but girls in super-tiny bikinis doing homoerotic things and pole-dances. But I don't have a problem with those games exactly because they are softcore porn; they're not meant to be taken seriously. But I do have a problem with all the cleavage-exposed super-horny women in the Witcher games, since that's a series where I am supposed to take the story and characters seriously; it's kinda hard to do that when women are throwing themselves at me every which way for doing relatively minor favors, even after they had previously told me that they were "decent" women.
So there are always going to be differences in opinions.
I missed this post......
Your first sentence don't make sense.
Your second sentence makes lots of sense. Folks here don't react to the word feminism, but feel strongly about equality, so they obviously see it differently to blokes like you.
I know my first sentence doesn't make sense, but it's how I interpreted yours.
We generally feel just as strongly about equality.
One thing is absolutely clear: we have the same goals (and, to be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if Britain is closer to full egalitarian society than we are.)
