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Originally Posted by Ronin4hire
Seriously... please stop trying to redefine feminism to specifically represent the ideology of those radicals because you had a bad experience with some of them. It is lame and it makes you sound uneducated.
Instead of going to war with the term feminism why don't you humbly accept that you are in fact STILL a feminist by it's broad definition and go to war with the very people who you disagree with. Not in the name of feminism but in the name of common sense.
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As feminists consider themselves part of a specific group / organization, why should I not do the same?
A "bad experience with some of them" is not the issue - I have yet to have a good experience with someone who identifies themselves to me as a "feminist".
I never said I was going to go out and fight feminists. I said that I am not comfortable identifying myself with that term as long as the "organization" most people consider it to be turns a blind eye to all the self-identifying feminists abusing the system.
Sorry. That is just morally wrong in my eyes. It`s easier to say that I am an anti-feminist egalitarian. If you choose to consider me "uneducated" because I am able to form opinions based on huge swaths of information instead of taking the textbook definition as all there is to it - feel welcome to do so. I am not one to toss insults around, and have no intent to do so... Nor do I believe I have done so in this thread. If you want to interpret me as leaping to conclusions based on a few personal experiences, then you have completely missed my point.
All I have done is stated my reasons for not wanting myself to be identified as a feminist. Take it as you will.