Re:What Happens to #MeToo When a Feminist Is the Accused?
by staticautomatic on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @04:05PM
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I don't understand the point you're trying to make here. In what way is what I described "not how things normally work"?
Re:What Happens to #MeToo When a Feminist Is the Accused?
by rosser on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @03:02PM
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> the older equality feminism even if its just a minority today.
[citation needed]
Re:What Happens to #MeToo When a Feminist Is the Accused?
by belorn on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @03:48PM
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The narrative is as what I have read from a book, wikipedia, and published articles from the 1960-1970s, where much of this theory also goes under first-wave, second-wave, third-wave, fourth-wave and post-feminism definitions. The history is not exactly defined in stone by any measure so it could be wrong.
When it comes to actually numbers I would like to think that most people would agree to view women and men as androgynous humans for all practical purposes unless it involves the sliver of domains where sex difference actually can be proven to have a large impact, and then being skeptical since most such finding that I have read get later reversed and attributed to culture and bias. I will assume you are one of those and thus give you an up vote.
I find The history of the different feminist factions to be very interesting and in particular I find the split between equality feminism and difference feminism to be one of the more significant event that illuminate much of the inconsistency of the movement that we see today. The older equality feminism view was that men and women are significant more alike than different and should thus be treated as identical androgynous humans, while difference feminism view men and women as different but deserving of equal power. The modern feminist factions are largely descendants of the difference feminism view so we get occasionally modern feminist that claim that women can not be sexist since men has more systemic power than women. It follows a kind of logic if one look at gender as uniform groups that wield power.
Still all those factions exist and so do the older equality feminism even if its just a minority today. The sad thing is when infighting occur, the common suggestion is that the other side is automatically far-right for not agreeing. I would suggest that this is why "the modern feminist movement" is starting to see more like a uniform set than different factions.