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If you feel the need to rename equality itself after a gender, then that shows the true intentions in the back of your mind are anything but about equality and gender-neutrality.
No, it doesn't. Just like "black lives matter" doesn't imply that other lives don't matter, but instead just highlights the fact that black people are under attack (in ways that white people aren't) and deserve extra attention, feminism focuses on equality between genders, without implying women deserve more rights than men, or that other fights for equality are unimportant.
Your suggestion that if you want to fight for equality, you must fight on all fronts at once, otherwise you're giving an unfair advantage to one sub-battle. That is nonsense. If that sub-battle is important to you, there's nothing wrong with focussing on it. It doesn't mean that you're against other sub-battles. And if in that situation, as you suggest, it would be wrong to have a word for the sub-battle you focus on, that would just make communication too confusing.
You may also notice that black lives matter activists, feminists, #nodapl people, and other people who fight for equality on some front usually stand in solidarity with each other. They all want equality, they just have a different focus for which part of the battle they are most passionate about.
Also, feminists like myself also want equal rights when it comes to things like a divorce (which is typically handled favourably to women). But given the very imbalanced starting point, the focus is on giving more rights to women, because that is what makes things more fair right now. But if we ever get there, the few areas where women do have an unfair advantage should also be fixed.
At its truest core, it's about trying to make men feel inferior to women
While this may be true for some people, I am not aware of ever having met any of them. Have you? Or is this just something made up by people who want to pretend to be victims?
some feminists are pretty horrible towards transgender men as well
Yes, and even more so to transgender women (that's trans exclusionary radical feminists, or TERFs). I've never met any, but I know they exist and I don't understand them. Somehow they feel oppressed as women, but then have no issue oppressing trans women even more, and in fact, seem to consider that more important than fighting their own oppressors (which is not all men, but just the anti-feminists, and that weirdly enough includes some women too).
no matter what anyone claims, these days it's nothing but...
You make the mistake here of generalizing too much. TERFs may (or may not) be correctly classified by you, but they certainly don't make up all feminists. In fact, I wouldn't even call them feminists at all, because they are not in favour of equality. But this is the same mistake that people make with ISIS and Islam. ISIS says that their interpretation of that religion is the only correct one. That doesn't mean it's true. They say other Muslims aren't "real" Muslims. That's nonsense. They don't own that religion. Neither do TERFs own feminism. There are others (in fact, I'm pretty sure TERFs are a pretty small group, but they are very vocal) and there is no reason to suggest those aren't real feminists. (And similarly, TERFs don't have to, and won't, care that I don't consider them feminists.)
try to wrap men around their finger
I'm a feminist myself and I'm not a woman. I assure you that my purpose is not to wrap men around any finger. You imply that every woman naturally does this, which suggests to me that you haven't met many women. Lots of them don't have that intent at all. In fact, being an oppressed group, I more often see them suffering from manipulative people (any gender) than manipulating others. Of course some do it, but are you telling me that men aren't manipulative?
No, it doesn't. Just like "black lives matter" doesn't imply that other lives don't matter, but instead just highlights the fact that black people are under attack (in ways that white people aren't) and deserve extra attention, feminism focuses on equality between genders, without implying women deserve more rights than men, or that other fights for equality are unimportant.
Your suggestion that if you want to fight for equality, you must fight on all fronts at once, otherwise you're giving an unfair advantage to one sub-battle. That is nonsense. If that sub-battle is important to you, there's nothing wrong with focussing on it. It doesn't mean that you're against other sub-battles. And if in that situation, as you suggest, it would be wrong to have a word for the sub-battle you focus on, that would just make communication too confusing.
You may also notice that black lives matter activists, feminists, #nodapl people, and other people who fight for equality on some front usually stand in solidarity with each other. They all want equality, they just have a different focus for which part of the battle they are most passionate about.
Also, feminists like myself also want equal rights when it comes to things like a divorce (which is typically handled favourably to women). But given the very imbalanced starting point, the focus is on giving more rights to women, because that is what makes things more fair right now. But if we ever get there, the few areas where women do have an unfair advantage should also be fixed.
At its truest core, it's about trying to make men feel inferior to women
While this may be true for some people, I am not aware of ever having met any of them. Have you? Or is this just something made up by people who want to pretend to be victims?
some feminists are pretty horrible towards transgender men as well
Yes, and even more so to transgender women (that's trans exclusionary radical feminists, or TERFs). I've never met any, but I know they exist and I don't understand them. Somehow they feel oppressed as women, but then have no issue oppressing trans women even more, and in fact, seem to consider that more important than fighting their own oppressors (which is not all men, but just the anti-feminists, and that weirdly enough includes some women too).
no matter what anyone claims, these days it's nothing but...
You make the mistake here of generalizing too much. TERFs may (or may not) be correctly classified by you, but they certainly don't make up all feminists. In fact, I wouldn't even call them feminists at all, because they are not in favour of equality. But this is the same mistake that people make with ISIS and Islam. ISIS says that their interpretation of that religion is the only correct one. That doesn't mean it's true. They say other Muslims aren't "real" Muslims. That's nonsense. They don't own that religion. Neither do TERFs own feminism. There are others (in fact, I'm pretty sure TERFs are a pretty small group, but they are very vocal) and there is no reason to suggest those aren't real feminists. (And similarly, TERFs don't have to, and won't, care that I don't consider them feminists.)
try to wrap men around their finger
I'm a feminist myself and I'm not a woman. I assure you that my purpose is not to wrap men around any finger. You imply that every woman naturally does this, which suggests to me that you haven't met many women. Lots of them don't have that intent at all. In fact, being an oppressed group, I more often see them suffering from manipulative people (any gender) than manipulating others. Of course some do it, but are you telling me that men aren't manipulative?
