2013-03-10, 03:51 AM
nikki Wrote:What's funny is that Anita's actually addressed this in the past with the visions of what the media shows as 'being feminist.' Feminists are bad. But strong female characters who distance themselves from these crazy people who are seeking equal rights are good. It's called the 'Straw Feminist' trope; it happens all the time, and girls still do this in every day life. ("I support equality for women... But I'm not a feminist." -- Except, by definition, you are.) It's something that I've seen even before I saw her video on it, and it doesn't even need to be her saying it; it could be any other woman (or person), like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler (who have both pointed this out a number of times).
That's also why the media focuses on the extremists; they make it so easy to point out why "feminism is bad," when the fact is that feminism is good. Equal rights for members of society? Yeah, there's nothing bad about that (unless you're making your living and generating your power from systematically oppressing a group of people).
I just had to point this out as it irks me.
No, just because you want equal rights for everyone doesn't auto make you a feminist. What would make you a feminist is if you wanted equal rights for all sexes AND you agree with the path that the current feminists take. What you said is the same thing as saying " In StarWars, Jedi and Sith are the same because they have the same end goal."- No they aren't and they clearly dont even like each other either.
But honestly by your definition of what makes a person a feminist most everyone is a feminist at face value. But when you talk to them about it why is that?
I think a lot and I mean a lot of men are not feminist simply of the group name is "feminist" and what that tells the person is that its a women only group. Just how if I had a group called "Black Society" that's goal was to keep blacks out of jail. Which should be a positive thing. Everyone who hears that name would think of it as a "black only group". And thus little to no non-black support for it.
Sorry if my Black Society example was bad/ ineffective. Most the time I suck at drawing parallels to other situations.