Ah. Just as I suspected. A lot of those points are flat-out ignorant and wrong. Would you like me to refute them point by point? I can. But frankly, anyone who would equate women's rights activists with genocidal fascists is probably not going to listen to reason.
You can try to make the distinction between feminists and "feminazis" all you want, but it's a word that originated (and is still used) as an insult to all of us. I swear, most of those are strawmen (or, rather, strawwomen) and the rest are complete ignorance.
You don't like it when theists bash atheists or just "certain atheists that act like this". They don't understand anything about us and most of the assumptions that they make are false. Well, feminism has the same problem. People demonize and lie about us a lot.
You can try to make the distinction between feminists and "feminazis" all you want, but it's a word that originated (and is still used) as an insult to all of us. I swear, most of those are strawmen (or, rather, strawwomen) and the rest are complete ignorance.
You don't like it when theists bash atheists or just "certain atheists that act like this". They don't understand anything about us and most of the assumptions that they make are false. Well, feminism has the same problem. People demonize and lie about us a lot.
Asked by saynathespiffy-deactivated20120
It is not a blanket statement about all feminists. It takes characteristics that many people DO display, and say, “If this description matches what you do, then you are such and such.” It is not, “Everybody who is a feminist does this.”
“Feminazis” are the equivalent to the 14-year-old atheist kid that constantly picks on kids at school for being religious without having to be provoked, is closed to discussion, etc. Those particular atheists are infuriating, but obviously we aren’t all like that. Just like a few particular feminists are infuriating in their approach.
Who’s “us?” I’m a feminist too.
