Feels like less Women identify as one.

@MaBalzEsHari says you.

@EarthlingWise I remember the feminist movement. If a man opened a door for a woman he was a pig. If he gave her a cab instead of taking it himself he was a pig. Any common courtesy a man offered a woman was wrong. The "feminist movement" was ALL about how men are not needed in a woman life in any way, shape nor form............and none of it was about equal pay or equal rights. You confuse the term "feminist" and "advocate for equal women's rights". They are NOT the same.

@MaBalzEsHari Every time women have asked for equality, they've been ridiculed, the suffragists were, the feminists were. Keeping your freedom and dignity has never been easy, people who have any kind of privilege will strive to keep it , under any pretence.
Have you been in a situation where someone was losing their grip over you? Have you felt their rage and understood that their pseudo respect was a mere disguise of their god-given right to use you? This can happen with both genders, of course, but historically, women have collectively been the ones that have been treated as things belonging to men.

@EarthlingWise I am 100% in favor of women earning what men do, etc. But like all things a radicalized few take it over...morph it and run it. Such was the "feminists movement". It started out as a good thing.........was morphed into a virtual man hate movement. That was my ONLY point,.

@MaBalzEsHari I would say any form of injustice can lead to a form of over-simplification of problems, scapegoating, self-indulgence, but I also know that people need to analyse their own experience. Women no longer want to subscribe to the narratives imposed onto them, they want to analyse the way alienation works. This, for example, does require a phase when they isolate themselves from men's patronising discourses.

@EarthlingWise In doing so that alienated a lot of men and unfortunately that is not the way to advance your own cause............when rhe problem in the beginning was men controling things politically.....which caused and furthered the inequality of women in the beginning. If you need the primarily male dominated political system to change the problem....you piss in your own shoe when you alienate those that you need to help you.

@MaBalzEsHari Or else you're just saying we shouldn't hurt men's egos? Well they will have to do their own introspection.

@EarthlingWise I'm saying COMMON SENSE beats reactionary mistakes.

@MaBalzEsHari Common sense is so different from awareness though.

@EarthlingWise Yes one requires thinking things thru in a logical manner and remembering in SOME situations you can draw more flies with honey than with vinegar and the other way is blundering thru a china shop like a bull to get your way with no clue how to get the outcome you want..

@MaBalzEsHari You're talking about some people here, maybe immature people, but personally , I have learnt a lot about bravery and honesty through women that were part of the feminist movement, they were actually very rational, and very caring. Yet before that I had been given the cliché of feminist Furies, and I had been scared into thinking they were dangerous unreliable people.