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For those of you who call yourselves feminist... Why?

I am not speaking about the radical feminist but the one's with a genuine heart. Who truly want equal rights for men and women. Just seem to go at it in a way where they tend to ignore the negative lights of what feminism has brought. I am not speaking for first wave. Just second and third and I am only speaking for the country we currently reside in. Not those we have no control over. What's the point? Many of the serious issues we talk about for women have equal equivalent issues for men. What's the point of labeling yourself and supporting the very thing that's making things worse? Even if you have the right heart. The ones who shout and influence this country generally don't. The only way to solve that to me is by finding a word that is an example of what we are striving for. And well in my opinion what we already have. Differences will always arise unless we force those differences away or pretend they don't exist. Sexism will always be a thing until we are exactly the same. But the reason feminism was apparent was not to worry about every small difference. What's the point of calling yourself a feminist? I hope you can understand me.
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I'm a feminist because I was raised to believe that I was valuable, capable and intelligent and I deserved to not be shut out of opportunities in the outside world because of my gender. That was over 50 years ago and I've been watching my country catch up to that way of thinking. Now because of this administration and brainwashing of subsequent generations we've been going backwards. Feminism is also not just for western white women, there are women in other countries with dreams they would also like to be able to fulfill.
Pfuzylogic · M
@bijouxbroussard: I felt everything start going backwards once Reagan got in.
@Pfuzylogic: Yes, I can believe that.
Pfuzylogic · M
@bijouxbroussard: It was like he was an artifact brought back from the McCarthy era and drug the whole country back with him dividing the old and the young.
He was the one who got the deficit really rolling.
PiceousPanda · 22-25, F
@bijouxbroussard: Supporting feminism only helps you to support the radicals. I go by what effects people and me supporting feminism does nothing. And that is mainly the cause by second wave feminism. When its soley started to focus on women rather than the unfair equality between men and women. That's when it went to shit. And eh as I said. I'm not going to hold onto a word because of the meaning it held in the past. Women outside of our own country have there own fight. It's not my country and feminism doesn't have to exist to fix that. Which people don't seem to understand.