The massive amount of misinformation about feminism here is overwhelming. You guys are Don Quixote, fighting windmill monsters that don't exist. In fact, I'm willing to bet that I'm the only one in this thread who has actually known multiple real-life people involved in the feminist movement. The vast majority of you probably don't know even know one, and many likely don't even know anyone who identifies as a feminist.
The "glorification of dominance, aggression and violence" is antithetical to the feminist movement (going back to the very earliest days when temperance and feminism overlapped). Now melon if I understand your point, it's that "well they don't like that stuff, but they're stupid and do stupid counterproductive things which ultimately results in the glorification of dominance, aggression and violence" ... to which I say bullshit. Or at least, you have to back such an extraordinary claim up with
something: I can claim the Republican party has a pro-gay agenda (and back it up by showing all the stupid things Republicans have done historically that have ultimately furthered gay rights) ... but that'd be a stupid argument to make. I certainly wouldn't just say "Republicans <3 gays: you are probably better equipped to figure it out than i am to explain it".
As for "adherents of radical feminism believe that egalitarianism means eradicating the desire for men and women to partake in domination games", these "radical feminists" are almost exclusively in people's imagination. I mean sure, you can find crazy people willing to say crazy things on any side of an argument, but again I have known a lot of feminists, and none of them were anything like that.
In fact they were all, every last one of them, far more sex-positive than your average person. They generally had a much better understanding of the concept that the human brain (and thus sex) is weird, and that there's nothing wrong with weirdness like BDSM as long as both parties are consenting and having fun.
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Originally Posted by JurisDictum
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What laws do feminists want?
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Crazy, insane liberal stuff, like greater legal protection against discrimination, harassment, rape and abuse, better support of women in abusive relationships, equal pay for equal work (the details of how to implement this one issue probably
does vary between liberals/conservatives), elimination of child marriage, access to abortion (and female healthcare in general) for all women, more teaching of STEM to young girls, etc.