I'm not sure that's really very true (hmm, can I fit any more hedges into that sentence? ;-)
I mean, yes, feminists differ on what would constitute equal rights for women, or on how to go about achieving them, but IME feminism, as defined by actual feminists (rather than, say, Daily Mail journalists) basically boils down to believing two things:
1. The world we live in does not currently treat women as equal to men, and 2. It should.
I can see why people might not choose to call themselves feminists if they believe that to do so they are implying that this is the greatest of all inequalities, or that they want to explicitly claim a different inequality as their main priority, or something similar, but to choose not to use the label because you think it doesn't describe your beliefs - even though you do believe the two things above - seems a bit perverse.
The more people who claim the label and define it properly, the less ground will remain for those who try to redefine it in order to weaken it.
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Date: Monday, 8 October 2007 11:16 am (UTC)I mean, yes, feminists differ on what would constitute equal rights for women, or on how to go about achieving them, but IME feminism, as defined by actual feminists (rather than, say, Daily Mail journalists) basically boils down to believing two things:
1. The world we live in does not currently treat women as equal to men, and
2. It should.
I can see why people might not choose to call themselves feminists if they believe that to do so they are implying that this is the greatest of all inequalities, or that they want to explicitly claim a different inequality as their main priority, or something similar, but to choose not to use the label because you think it doesn't describe your beliefs - even though you do believe the two things above - seems a bit perverse.
The more people who claim the label and define it properly, the less ground will remain for those who try to redefine it in order to weaken it.