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[–]NDG 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

My offline encounters with self-declared feminists have almost all been with the “judgmental tribunal” types. Don’t dismiss other people’s experience as ignorance, please.

As for “what feminism is,” there are different schools of feminism claiming that totally opposing beliefs are feminist.

[–]penelopekitty 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If you look into the history of feminism it's clear what the overall intent was. Today's feminism has been corrupted, people are ignorant of what the history was, and women who identify with men instead of thinking for themselves accept the smear campaign without question.

Just because a woman calls herself a feminist doesn't mean she is. Her actions are the determining factor. If people actually understood that the aim of feminism was to liberate women from patriarchy we wouldn't have so many divisions and so much ignorance around the subject.