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Re:Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign by baby on Thursday June 11, 2015 @12:19AM (#9697508)
It baffles me that people still have trouble differentiating Feminism as wanting women to be equal to men in the world AND the usual stupid more vocal minority.

I think a lot of people here on HN are feminist in the sense that we think women should be treated equally to men in a modern society.

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Re:Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign by philwelch on Thursday June 11, 2015 @12:52AM (#9697656)
The "stupid, more vocal minority" has done for the word "feminist" what stupid, vocal minorities have done for other well-intentioned ideas like "Christian".
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Re:Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign by baby on Thursday June 11, 2015 @01:00AM (#9697694)
I really don't see the link with a cult.
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Re:Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign by feybay on Thursday June 11, 2015 @06:41PM (#9702934)
Yeah, Christianity isn't that bad.
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Re:Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign by baby on Friday June 12, 2015 @01:40AM (#9704249)
it's not that bad? There is thousand of years of history that contradicts you. But I don't see how all of that is relevant in this thread?
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Re:Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign by mod on Thursday June 11, 2015 @01:08AM (#9697720)
I'm "feminist in that sense," but that's not how I equate the feminist movement, nor how it seems to play out in practice.

That said, I think it's true of lots of other situations. Political parties, for instance, are widely characterized as those "stupid" extremists. If you ask a liberal, Bill O'Reilly is the epitome of a conservative, and if you ask a conservative, Michael Moore is the epitome of a liberal.

In reality, most people on other side are just pretty normal.

I would never identify as a feminist, but certainly I believe in equal rights. I think that typically, people who identify as feminists give the "movement" a bad name.

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