I can see how's there's a time and place forgroups who want to marginalize, enslave, or eliminate large sections of the population. I understand that I want to continue living (hint: I'm male), and theories that interfere with that I'm not too keen about.
Palantas
That's strange, and here I thought feminists generally want to point out inequality and work toward solutions.....
Such as accessibility issues. My campus has few ramps and elevators, but a lot of stairs. The school installed these yellow posts on campus where you can press a button to request assistance/security after there was a sexual assault on the school grounds. However, people in wheelchairs generally can't reach the button as it is too high up. Yet, people with disabilities are some of the most targeted individuals for assault.
Stuff like that. Ever since the late 80s, feminism included intersectionality...how different identities and experiences converge. Mainly, this change was caused because white upper ****feminists tried to bunch everyone's experiences together as "women's issues", when that conglomeration only wound up silencing many feminists' life experiences.
So feminism is focused on challenging heteronormativity and the systems of power which silence, erase, and oppress peoples of all types.
Feminism is now about being above males, not about equal rights as males. From child support which has the male required to pay it regardless of who has the job, rape cases automatically trying to judge males as criminals (Patrick Waring case) as well as being able to publish gendercidal works (SCUM Manifesto) and deem it as accepted whilst any male publishing any works arguing for a patriarchal society or the complete gendercide of females would be arrested under hate crime.
Vesica_Prime
It isn't about being above males at all. There are feminists who have been constantly pushing for law reforms on child support, alimony, and custody rights. Just because they continuously fail doesn't mean they don't exist. Feminism isn't a big conglomerate, it's thousands of tiny branches. What's understood as feminism now is a ghost of what it was in the 70s, twisted by media moguls. A lot of the easy stuff got implemented to a decent degree. Right to work, education, equal pay. That stuff is easy, that is simply bringing the other 50% of the population into the labor force so businesses can make even MORe surplus profit and create even MORE consumerism. They got what they wanted out of the feminism movement, and stopped support at that.
I've taken a decent amount of gender studies ****s and there haven't been any arguments for worldwide matriarchy. The closest there has come to that is when one of my profs openly hoped that if any aboriginal communities were still out there with more matriarchal social systems, that they remain undisturbed by globalization and colonization.
Feminism is about analyzing why and how power is exercised over people, and challenging violent oppression caused by that power. Anything else is merely a person's own beliefs.
Engrish_Major
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