I know quite a number of feminists, I have to say, you do feel their "wrath against men" (this is an understatement quite a lot) quite strongly, even when reading feminist blogs. Like with the door example, I was simply holding open a door, which I would do regardless of gender, yet the "feminist" who apparently wants equality targeted me out as a male and attempted to make me feel bad just because I am the sex I was born with. In one feminist blog, the write had a bone to pick with family members saying "how is the search for a partner?" going, etc, as she is living alone at 35 years old. She writes how society oppresses women and the man apparently get off scott-free. I am only in my twenties and I hear it all the time from my family, yet apparently to the blog owner, this is only a thing that applies to women.
The thing with feminism is that it is woman central, the whole name is "female" and is actively subscribed to females. This is the problem with campaigning from that angle, it is very pro-female at the expense of equality. An issue on campus at the moment is that men are elected into the student union more than women, however, the number of male applicants outnumber the female ones. So statistically speaking, it is more likely for a man due to pure maths. (What is even funnier, the make up of students here is 60% female and 40% male)
The feminist group (we have one) are campaigning to make it mandatory to have places set aside for women, is called "positive discrimination" (pretty much affirmative action). The thing is, I have a problem with this. I have no problems with females being elected, but I am an egalitarian, I believe in true equality. If you want to tackle the issue, find out why women aren't applying and if anything, convince women to apply. There is something wrong when the women are outnumbering the men, which I can agree with, but why should you bring about inequality for an "forced" equality. Also, this breeds further discrimination as you start rejecting people based "just because they are male", and now the whole thing for equality from feminism is more "females are more equal than males" as the saying goes.
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