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salty-italian:

It’s sad that when a famous celebrity comes out and says they are a defender of equal rights, they get even more supporters. Then when I say I’m a feminist and believe in equal rights, I get discriminated against and hated on

This is because feminism has a well-earned reputation for saying it’s all about equal rights, but then acting in a very different way. NOW, the largest and most mainstream feminist organization in the US (at least), has put out official press releases accusing fathers who seek joint custody of having no motives for doing so other than ‘controlling the mother and her child’ and/or weaseling their way out of child support payments. The very idea that, in this case, men exist who simply want to raise their children, does not even register on their radar. This is how demonized males have become in their eyes. And that is only the tip of the iceberg.

Here’s one more quick one: have you seen the phrase “the future is female” floating around recently? Well, the woman who coined that phrase, Sally Miller Gearhart, also advocated for killing off 90% of the men on the planet. She was a lot more literal about that phrase than you may have realized. And she’s a feminist icon, beloved despite espousing something so horrific.



Things like these are why, even though the vast majority of people are in favor of equal rights between the sexes, the vast majority of those people simultaneously refuse the label “feminist”.

