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Out of curiosity, have you ever actually studied feminism, or are your comments based on your subjective evaluation of what you think it is?
The examples you are using , i.e "google why we should hate men" don't provide much insight into what feminism is about. It merely points to the fact that there are bitter woman who want to hurt men. If I googled "why should men not marry woman", I would get the opposing perspective.
The reason why you (and alot of other people) have such a negative view of feminism, is that it is only the extreme expressions of militant feminism that you hear about. For every one youtube video showing an angry woman claiming that all men are rapists, there are dozens of moderate feminists who don't share those views or vocalize them in a public way. This is true of most issues - only people at the extremes attract attention, and as a result, we erroneously assume that these views are the norm.
I am a professor at a liberal university in Canada - if there was ever a hotbed for feminism, it would by where I work. Overwhelmingly though, the people that self identify as feminists are looking for equality, not the vilification of all men.
"Out of curiosity, have you ever actually studied feminism, or are your comments based on your subjective evaluation of what you think it is?"
Actually quite a lot. My best friend did a psych degree and refers to herself as a feminist. No matter how much revolting shit I show her from some of the leading voices in feminism over the decades as well as contemporary references, she still hides behind the dictionary definition of the word.
There is what they profess to be and what their words and actions show them to be.
"The examples you are using , i.e "google why we should hate men" don't provide much insight into what feminism is about. It merely points to the fact that there are bitter woman who want to hurt men. If I googled "why should men not marry woman", I would get the opposing perspective."
Because they are from massive newspapers from around the world as well as published books. There is some absolute horrifying shit I have used for references in my discussions with the friend I referenced above.
It 's interesting that you would actually draw an equivalency between "why we should hate men" "kill all men" etc and "why should men not marry woman" which is typically about the legal ramifications of the ridiculous current legal system around marriage in divorce. Do you really believe these are even remotely similar?
...actually, I can see this is something that could end up in writing massive amounts of text and responses etc and on another day I might be up for it but currently I just want a glass of wine and to kick back after work so I just don't really have the motivation to enter this discussion currently.
Peace out.