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Originally Posted by loramin
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when you (or anyone in this forum) starts talking about "modern feminism" the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Assuming you're not involved yourself with the modern feminist movement, how do you define "modern feminism"? To put it another way, is it possible your beliefs might be based on a few crazies who are good at getting TV airtime and choose to identify as "modern feminists"?
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Well to be fair to Feminism as a label -- its all people identifying as feminist. You can add a qualifier so that real wack jobs and trolls don't count -- This is what Muslims argue about ISIS (but not every radical group).
But I think its helpful to seperate 2 things labeled feminism:
1) Academic Feminism as a form of scholarship -- usually OK unless from a werid institution.
2) Your run of the mill feminist that follows media trends.
Now 1 is the intellectual basis for 2...but a lot gets lost in translation. Like basically all of it but a slogan or two.
Academic Feminism as a college subject -- important stuff (but don't oversell the B.A. in it IMO).
Media feminism and popular feminism and what most feminists do most the time...not as much. It can be useful when mobilized for a legal goal IMO. But there isn't one really strictly
feminist policy. And frankly -- they got a bad rap in the media. It doesn't help the cause usually to say "feminists believe x."
Why does 2020 need to be about sexual assault and Trump? We aren't going to win that. Even if we do -- yea us, we got ourselves a fucking Clinton or some centrist that makes rich feminists happy. The media is all about girls in their pussyhats -- but wouldn't cover Occupy Wallstreet worth a shit. Except for when it was time to make fun of the bums showing up.