Quick poll before bed

[andrewducker]

Taking the definition of feminism as:
The view, articulated in the 19th century, that women are inherently equal to men and deserve equal rights and opportunities.
and remembering that you don't have to select entries if you don't want to (and therefore don't need to choose "I am a woman and a feminist" if you're not a woman):

[Poll #688002]

Comments

[mirukux.livejournal.com]

it's annoying because the term originally refered to a specific movement from a time when the balance was so against women that it seemed only natural to call it that, rather than refering to a philosophical stance, but many people just don't get that without doing some research into the subject. if one was to start looking at a morality that treated the sexes the same from the bottom up, either humanism (which is more or less reaches from the bottom to the top these days) or existentialism (imo it's only logical that every existentialist is a gender feminist) would be the most suitable starting points. what's more annoying is the term 'masculism', where some men, rather than saying "hey, lets take a step back here" and realising that feminism is called feminism because of where it came from, and that it doesn't have to exclude the rights of males, or that it's better to go with a stance that tackles the two birds with one stone (like the two mentioned above), they have to fork off a new camp, seperate from everyone else to try and get their point across.