[maskedmelon]

The issue that I take with feminism in its present incarnation is that it shames femininity by insisting non-feminine traits are more praiseworthy than feminine ones. Its measure
of successes is misguided. it assumes that if women enjoy equal treatment with men then they will and should share the same ambitions. feminism in its current
form is a glorification of dominance, aggression and violence.

if you consider yourself a feminist in the traditional sense, welcome to the realm of modern thought. very few people disagree with you. it's liek declaring opposition to theft.

advocacy is important though because it affords people purpose. when nature has been so completely subdued that outside of irresponsibility or catastrophe she poses no significant threat to one's existence, it is one's primal duty to fabricate such opposition to one's existence that survival is still hard-won.

it also affords others a few imaginary steps up the dominance hierarchy, by establishing their superiority over women. it is not possible to help a superior. one must enjoy superiority in some regard to be able to help. whether the superiority is a product of chance or choice and whether one considers it as such is irrelevant.

advocacy is about fabricating purpose for onself and elevating one's self-worth with subordination of others, all with indifference to reality.

of course very few people harbor malicious intent with regard to their advocacy. the vast majority are entirely unaware of what they are doing or why.

none of this is of course meant to trivialize or ridicule the desire to help others. that is an admirable and useful trait, but it is something of which we should be aware and strive to protect from exploitation by destructive reasoning.