What's your opinion about feminists?

Question

Personally I dont like them.

coldmarch · Accepted Answer

I think you should elaborate the point, since feminists are many and come from different, really different points of view.
You don't like them but which ones? The ones that propose what, in what way? The ones that behave like what? I mean...

If we have to take -all- the feminists like an homogeneous group then my opinion is that it's a disorganized group because some ask for gender equity also within the perception of the female gender (as not inferior etc), while other ask for more special helps and supports, indirectly implying that the female gender -is- inferior, intrinsically to the battle itself. To not mention the most debated part about the freedom of the nudity/sexuality, that's the point where the biggest flames happen between feminists.
Still, I think the general activism brought to more justice in the last decade, mainly helping young girls (and young parents) to create an environment that given more options to girls, as much as boys. Feminism permitted also much more mediatic attention about domestic violence, psychological abuses and femicides, allowing the creation of protective entities and centers for these victims. Good thing, in my opinion.

theselly · Accepted Answer

Feminists argue that men and women are equal. Those who hate and despise men are not real feminists.

OlderAndWiser · Answer

Egalitarians? I'm fine with them. Hostile, nasty bitches who hate men? No thank you!

akihon · Answer

Equal rights yes not an issue but that isn't the issue the issue is the way they behave, the arguments they make.

Let's take an example, they'll use a false statistic that women are the only victims of domestic violence not true in fact men are most likely to be the initial victim of domestic violence, now then when you understand that it's also not hard to understand why lesbian relationships have the highest of all DV incidents across all relationship type groups. Again they won't admit to that.

They argue for equality but only for cases where they are directly benefitting otherwise they'll sit very quiet. They'll make statements that when questioned on those statements use gaslighting tricks to avoid being called out.

They make claims that all men are evil and when again called out on it go to, well I don't mean all men, or I didn't say all men.

They demand equality for things they already have equal rights on, but again demand that they are protected special little flowers when it comes to things they don't like..

I don't like these people, I don't consider them people because they are at best hypocrites and cowards, they will claim it's about choice but only if a choice you make agrees with them otherwise they throw you right under the bus. They sand that masculinity changes to suit them but won't change to meet men half way, they demand that men change and become more feminine but time and again show that's the very last thing they want.

Anonymous · Answer

I support egalitarianism I cannot support feminism though.

I know some feminists personally and they are annoying as hell especially on social media.

I swear these people are grown in a lab and were released because they do nothing but complain about how men are the evil ones when there are plenty of evidence that claim that evil has no gender (just watch TV and it will all make sense). They insist that all men are rapists and are out to get them yet they lack the self awareness to realize that if they really believed that then they wouldn’t have broadcasted that where everyone can see them and instead hide under a floor somewhere. That’s what I would have done.

What’s even worse is that politicians have been listening to these people for decades and allowed stuff like to Duluth model (assumes the man is the aggressor in any domestic violence case unless the woman demonstrates otherwise and it might not even matter then) to exist where it remains today.

I just have no idea where they are getting off saying that they are oppressed especially to this day. It boggles my mind.

alleng12345 · Answer

Well, if they are feminists because they support feminism then I don't see a problem with them.

I don't have a problem with feminism:

the advocacy of women's rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes.

People may have problems with feminism but I do not.

I do, however, not appreciate people who hide behind a label and are pushing a different agenda. That goes for any ism.

If a woman or even man, claims to be a feminist just so they can belittle or attempt to oppress members of the same or opposite sex, then I do not respect them.

But if a woman wants the world to be equal for them, then I support their beliefs.

chadpattan · Answer

I would second what coldmarch said.

Pamela Anderson is a self-admitted feminist. But the way she handles feminism is by her being comfortable with her own skin and her role in a relationship, and not feeling pressured into anything; she's in control at all times.

So when she came out basically criticizing women who went up to hotel rooms of powerful Hollywood execs ("you know what you're getting into when you go to a hotel room, and if you do go, get the job."), and she got beat up for it, she just shrugs it off and doesn't apologize for the way she feels.

THAT is a real feminist. Not the ones that basically dislike men. They're not feminists.

Meropatrick · Answer

As a man i dont feel i have the right to judge them. But you asked us. So... I can say that i feel feminists now dont have any battles to fight no more in western countries, so all whats left is acting silly and pretending to be brave in an already safe environment. I wish one of these feminists come and act all brave here in the middle east were really things need to be changed. She will get her very pretentious ass kicked. Also those feminists aren't kind to men nor women. Some of them actually are very bitchy towards other women.(tsk tsk.. not practicing what they preach)

MDollarBill · Answer

Feminism is one of the great, destructive evils of our time. It is to relationships what communism is to economies and liberty. It's a perversion of Natural Law, and while it might sound good on the surface, it quickly becomes a cancer that eats away at a culture. It makes men and women both miserable and uncertain of their roles in life. It has coarsened society, lead to men competing with women in sports, put women in dangerous positions never before contemplated. (sports, construction, combat) You ladies want to know where all the "good guys" went? they were killed by Helen Gurley Brown, Betty Friedan, and Simone de Beauvoir.

EmbraceThePain · Answer

I think the word “feminist” has gotten a bad rap due to the depictions in social media and in other places. If I’m being charitable and generous with what I think the word means, I think it is supposed to mean a woman/man, but mainly woman, who is fighting for equal rights and treatment of women due to their treatment of being less than equal or inferior to men in a variety of circles from being shunned out of the business meeting room when the men talk, the sexual objectification of women, etc.

Drowningkingfish · Answer

Femninists have been given a really bad name in their third and
fourth wave, this new generation of feminists act like entitled, unempathetic and unreasonable school children that want more than their agenda originally bargained for. Damn femi-nazis.

peachyknees · Answer

Sadly, this concept has been highly denaturated.
I'm all for humanism and egalitarianism (this doesn't mean that all the differences between genders should be evened out).
I like strong women, able to carry themselves, but I dislike what's happening nowadays.

mub2020 · Answer

Feminism is cancer... I would not say this if feminism would be really all about gender equality, but it's all about gender inequality and act of getting more priority... in the name of women safety... I prefer women safety but I know, if feminism will exists, we can't achieve women safety, because insecurity towards women is the 'weapon for feminism', if you want to keep 'feminism' alive, you must need to keep 'violences towards women' alive... as light needs darkness to prove it's worth, God need devil to prove his... similarly feminist need to keep 'violences against women' in order to have their tiers for it and get advantages over male folks, any form of violence against women need to stay as it is, so that they can easily make it their weapon to get priorities over others in almost all aspects...

MackToday · Answer

I'll have to keep saying it. They're not feminists and they don't care about women. They use women for political gain. These people are communists and the so called feminist movement is based on neo Marxist ideology of class struggle over social power they just don't tell you that. You can easily tell they're not really for women by looking at their silence over grooming gangs in the UK or the gang rape of women in Cologne Germany, utter silence form the so called feminists because it was migrants doing it and not Europeans.

sawno · Answer

Depends if the girl is conned into thinking feminism is about a fair society where people have equal rights i support her but also inforl her that is not what feminism is. If she is an actual feminist who practises intersectionality and/or tribal warfare by attackimg gender strengths or rights in an attempt to achieve equal outcome ill dislike and strongly oppose her.

CharlieUnicorn · Answer

They are all social constructivists to some degree. Some of that is rational, but too far and you get Maoism which is hellish.
Same way with people who acknowledge innate biological difference between gender and race. Some of that's rational too but bring it too far and you get eugenics and nazism.

So, if I hear someone is a feminist, I consider it possible the person may subscribe to dangerous ideas, but It's best to have an open mind first and find out more.

rjroy3 · Answer

Majority of them are addicted to the anger porn aspect of it. a lot are in it for social reasons. The rest are unattractive females who want to get the same treatment as hot women in society.

Feminism is the weapon of choice for the last group. I've dated a wealth of feminists. Most were in it because of the social circle. Not really diehards. My favorites are the girls who are selectively feminist. Teasing "how feminist of you" gets a rise out of them in a fun way.

Dargil · Answer

As destructive to Western culture as radical Islamic jihadists. One bleeds us. One rots us from within. Like opioid addiction, feminism harms women but they don't know it until it's too late. It ruins lives, families and careers and is dismantling culture.

JHNS98 · Answer

I'm fine with feminists, The European political septum is broader than the American, i. e. we have much more established socialism and other alt left ideologies/parties. Alt left ideologies are still a bit scary for Americans, even though the Wall fell 30 years ago.

In Sweden there is even a dedicated feminist party, but they're steadily becoming irrelevant since every established party now embrace feminism.

Matt57 · Answer

For me it really depends on their level of intensity. Like obv I’m against SCUM feminists, but I look up to women such as Loretta Lynn who wrote songs of lying, cheating, drunk philandering husbands, the pill, society’s expectations of women, being kept pregnant and left at home, women’s lib, etc.

hemo821 · Answer

While i'm all for equal right... that does not have to come at the expense of male rights there has to be a better way.
I mean all feminists i meat blamed men for all the world trouble and while that may be true i can't see how hating innocent guys can lead to a better future... also i dont quite understand their standing on kids

Anonymous · Answer

In the traditional sense. Feminism is necessary. There's still work to be done in other countries. No woman should be denied an education, the right to vote, the right to make her own decisions. An egalitarian approach to feminism can only be a good thing.

Agape93 · Answer

I am feminist. And like @R4vedave, I don’t like extremists.

bella4eva · Answer

The term has been hijacked and the power of that term been transferred to those that want inequality. Feminists were those that helped women gain the right to vote, amongst other rights we now take for granted. Like the 'N' word, we need to reclaim the power of this word. It doesn't mean what the current mass media wants you to think it to mean, once it meant unity and now they use it to divide. Ironic and sad

lightbulb27 · Answer

It's a spectrum, women wanting better treatment and good treatment is perfectly fine. Some went off the deep end and despise all things male. They have some valid points but like any "ism" they cast their shadow over all males and it isn't true or right. It's just another form of "ism" but they don't see it.

_Stefan_ · Answer

The term "feminist" has gotten a lot of bad press over the years... Feminists are supposed to be people who agree with equal rights for men and women.
Yes, that makes me a feminist ( not one of those extremist kind ). I do believe men and women should have equal rights personally, but unfortunately that's not the case in the real world..

CubsterShura · Answer

Some are nice, some are not nice but still not too offensive, some are pure assholes. Feminism is defined by different people in different ways. So I can't paint all feminists with the same brush.

wankiam · Answer

well i am a feminist and personally you dont know me so there's some irony right there

JackSmy · Answer

I keep asking this: WHAT IS A FEMINIST? Is there a real definition? Some seem to just HATE all men, and others just seem like they are for gender equality, and I agree with that, totally!
How can you hate something that is not defined?

ChillDude2 · Answer

Not many people know what they actually are because they learn about them from idiots on the internet. I think feminists that fit the dictionary definition at least are helping to eliminate the oppression of femaleness and femininity, which will make the world a better place to live in.

OonaSFW · Answer

The original feminist movement was actually good, and did a lot for equality. But then, slowly, it went overboard, and now they are pushing to have more and better rights than men.

Anonymous · Answer

the toxic feminists who use the term "feminist" as an excuse to act like assholes? NO. im tired of their shit. listen, y'all need to calm your titties down, don't hate men for no reason just to make you feel more powerful, it's stupid, that is why most people hate feminists..

Anonymous · Answer

The following is what I think of them.. They are a worthless drain on society hell bent on alienating half of the human race for things that have been proven false, and for rights and privileges they already have.. If they all died out the world would be better for it..

AshZ36 · Answer

Feminism is good... but what self claimed "Feminism" is today is an abomination

DictumVeritas · Answer

Feminists are weak minded (programmed by media), opinionated, obnoxious, loud mouthed, vacuous, narcissistic scum to be avoided in their opinions and person at all costs.

hellionthesagereborn · Answer

Utterly despise the ideology, its ruined society, its ruined the relation between the sexes, its hurt men and women and they are just hateful unlikable people.

JimmyInSpace · Answer

Fairness is fine. Today's feminists seem to invent dumb issues while ignoring and often supporting actual suffering of women in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. (Like supporting religious practices that are extremely harmful to women and girls)

Little_ginger88 · Answer

I dont like how they never speak up for men, its sexist of them.

Anonymous · Answer

In the US today, feminism isn't needed like it was early to mid 1900's. Today's feminist use the no longer needed feminist movement to both make women superior to men and to blame all their problems on men. Maybe if we send feminist to Muslim countries, they will change their tune.

DiscomfortZone · Answer

Feminazis are the scum of the earth, the filth of mankind. Most of them are so hideous you wouldn't touch them for money, so they lie to themselves about how everybody wants to rape them so they can fake feeling attractive. These pathetic lifeforms are a joke.

ShortCircuit · Answer

There is a reason that they expressly choose to identify as feminists rather than egalitarians. It speaks volumes.

1828avaava1828 · Answer

the only thing I know is fighting 🥊

I was raised in the Congo by 🦍

They turned their backs on me and left me beaten and near death. !

Irish travelers found me and brought me to be raised up in Irish society

whitehide · Answer

I'm fine with feminists, I even support them at times however I can. But misandrists who call themselves feminists should really read a book (not some bullshit by Valerie Solanas), because their stupidity is becoming unbearable.

miley19 · Answer

Depends really.
I think a feminist in a first world country will likely state false facts and try to change things which won’t make any impact on women’s lives in real (like going out with grown body hair and the fat acceptance movement) instead, they can try helping countries where many women are actually getting abused purely because of their gender. They should be the voices of those women instead of focusing too much on society and their beauty standards.

Brindale · Answer

I like feminism but there's the brownie point feminists who just give it lip service and don't actually give a shit and just do it to fit in

MrTuxedo · Answer

I despise every single one I met. I believe there are some geniuine feminists out there, but HUGE majority of them are pieces of shit.

CaptainOverthink · Answer

I dont mind feminist. But I do dislike extremists. Yeah that includes feminist extremists, don't go start no witchhunt.

Sensmind · Answer

As with any movements I am okay with most of them , it is just the extreme ones who get under my skin and even the ideas I agree with.

R4vedave · Answer

Perfectly fine with feminists, dislike feminist-extremists.

Rangers · Answer

They were a movement of misandrist prostitutes that inevitably failed when MGTOW and Incels became a thing to counter their movement, and now the movement is dead and gone.

TheFlak38 · Answer

I can only laugh at women who say they don't like feminists. Until society tells you to shut your mouth, shut your legs and learn your place. Then you start throwing such temper tantrums that I cannot distinguish between standard issue feminists and self-proclaimed anti-feminist women.

Hispanic-Cool-Guy · Answer

I support traditional women suffrage rights, as I support social equality opportunities between genders.

As for modern feminists, I don't think about them or nor concern myself with them. I completely ignore them.

NerdInDenial · Answer

This is my perception of feminists:

RickPen · Answer

Given the broad range of replies, are you able to clarify or define feminism for this question?

TwoToTooTutu2 · Answer

Feminist is wayyyy to broad to describe anyone at this point. It was once a title that meant something, but people would cling onto it in order to push their beliefs as a vaillant cause.

brodycarmody · Answer

I think the problem is some people who call themselves feminists are really no more than man haters. But there are feminists around that just want equality

DomTreddo · Answer

Depends on what kind of feminists really. If it's current wave of feminists then they need to be put down. But otherwise I'm for women's rights and etc.

Ripper_E · Answer

Depends on whether you mean true feminists or feminazis.

Clarke498 · Answer

Actual feminists i'm all for. Too bad it's so few of them left.

normalice · Answer

I think the wage gap ought to have every penny accounted for. But once that's done I think all other feminist issues are as made up as the incel thing.

Jjpayne · Answer

I think they are ok as long as they have a balanced view of gender. Men can be feminists too. And I think if you are about supporting women and men equally. I think it's a good thing

Anonymous · Answer

I think they get a bad rep because of the extremist members of the movement. Most feminist i met in real life are good people. I think it's just people tend to focus more on the negative side of the movement more than the positive side of it.

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