Are you a Feminist?

No. Feminism has now become a man-hating cult and I want nothing to do with it. I of course believe in equal rights and equality of opportunity for both sexes, but I don’t see why that position has to be called feminism.

I believe that I must disagree with you, firstly feminism isn't a cult but a movement if you didn't already know. Cults generally have a devotion to a certain object or figure when feminism merely has a goal for equality.

If you believe that all feminists are men-haters I don't think you would be able to justify it because you haven't met EVERY feminist so your statement there is untrue and it is a perfect example of the "danger of a single story" -Chimamanda Ngozi, stating that all feminists are men haters is like saying that every Mexican is an illegal immigrant, it's simply a disrespectful, stereotypical, unjustified and uneducated statement.

Honestly I don't think that feminism believes that men and women should be "identical" however we do believe in equality. I do agree with you on the point that men and women aren't identical at least not in bodily anatomy😂

I didn’t say they’re all man haters. They’re in the minority but their voices are the loudest and so they’ve ruined the movement for sensible feminists. What they spout is most definitely misandry and their cult behaviour is deplorable.

Again, I don’t see why I need to call myself a feminist, I’m not and won’t ever be.

Yes.

By definition, I think most people here, bar a few nut jobs, are feminists. The trouble is there are a significant number of self-proclaimed “feminists” who are actually just misandrists.

Added to that, the term is starting to become confusing, at least in developed countries. The term got its name from the fact that at its conception, women had it much worse off than men. Nowadays, there are still large unethical disparities between genders, particularly affecting women, but a significant portion of feminism is to do with addressing men’s issues, primarily toxic masculinity. I don’t know of any alternative terms that don’t have this problem though,

I didn’t say they’re all man haters. They’re in the minority but their voices are the loudest and so they’ve ruined the movement for sensible feminists. What they spout is most definitely misandry and their cult behaviour is deplorable.

Again, I don’t see why I need to call myself a feminist, I’m not and won’t ever be.

I don't believe that it is the feminist "men hating" minorities fault that sensible feminists are being misjudged I believe that it is societies problem. Because society views these feminists as "cult members" like you they misjudge the sensible ones, if society overlooked the minority the sensible ones wouldn't be misjudged or stereotyped. It's like when you meet one a small tribe of African people and they're all really poor and because of this you say that the rest of Africa is poor it just depends on how you want to look at a situation, it's either you see it with an open mind or a closed one.

But movements do often get judged and tainted by their most radical members, it’s simple reality.

Again, many of these people care more about the label of feminist than your actual ideas. I support full equality of opportunity between the sexes, why is that not enough? Why must I also label myself as a feminist?

Well I never said that you HAD to be a feminist, I was simply arguing for the false accusations you were making.

The problem with something like feminism though is that - being an large and unorganized group - it contains people like you, who seem quite reasonable.. calling yourself the same name as the people who would declare that men and women are equally strong etc.

My view of gender and equality is basically this:

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My issue with it today, is

No. Feminism has now become a man-hating cult and I want nothing to do with it. I of course believe in equal rights and equality of opportunity for both sexes, but I don’t see why that position has to be called feminism.