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Originally Posted by Nyororin
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.
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What you're doing is pigeon-holing feminism and feminist thought with your "anti-feminist" stance. A stance which on it's own implies that you are in fact against the core movement.
If you really want to have a proper, intelligent discussion on this topic then unfortunately for you textbook definitions are the only way to carry it forward. Otherwise you will not be taken seriously.
You despise a certain type of feminist. Fine... why can't you just say that instead of ranting on and on about how you identify this type of feminist as the voice of feminism when in fact that is completely innacurate.