Poll: Are you a feminist?

[Moth_Monk]

Are you a feminist?

Feminism
noun
[mass noun]
the advocacy of women?s rights on the ground of the equality of the sexes.

http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/feminism?q=feminism

Definition of feminist
noun
a person who supports feminism.

http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/feminist

If yes, then have you done anything active to advocate the equality of women's rights?

Incidentally, I am not asking why/why not you are/are not a feminist; that topic has been overdone already.

 

[Jonluw]

I don't identify as feminist because the word holds lots of different connotations depending on whom you ask, and I believe I shouldn't have to specify that I want the sexes to be equal. It should be the default position.

 

[Thaluikhain]

I wager most people would claim to want equality between the sexes, though there's be a lot of people repeatedly finding reasons not to support any particular thing that might bring it closer.

As to active, what do you mean by that?

 

[Scrustle]

I foolishly used to kind of call myself a feminist, but as time has gone on I've found that it's not really my place to call myself something like that. And like Jonluw stated, the word "feminism" can have a lot of different connotations, some of them pretty negative in my opinion.

 

[Fappy]

I don't identify as feminist because the word holds lots of different connotations depending on whom you ask, and I believe I shouldn't have to specify that I want the sexes to be equal. It should be the default position.

Yeah pretty much this. I'm not an activist but I believe women should have equal opportunity and rights as men and visa versa. Pretty simply really.

 

[purplecactus]

I don't identify as feminist because the word holds lots of different connotations depending on whom you ask, and I believe I shouldn't have to specify that I want the sexes to be equal. It should be the default position.

That's pretty much my reason for voting no. I'm for equal rights across the board, because it should be so already.

 

[Moth_Monk]

I find those definitions of feminism to be sorely lacking. Feminism is the crazy idea that everybody deserves to be treated like a human being, regardless of things like age, race, gender or sexual orientation.

 

[Mysterious Username]

I'm a fernimist, I believe in plant equality.
More on topic, I'm inclined to respond like most others. I'm not a feminist, but I think there should be equal rights for all sexes.

 

[Nouw]

Yes I am a feminist in the sense that I suppourt equality of the genders. I haven't really done anything to suppourt it though since I don't really feel compelled to do so. I suppose if I personally knew of the injustice that ocurred I would take action but as a fourteen year-old guy living in NZ, it's just something I believe in. Do I call myself a feminist? No, because as the people above stated it has a variety of connotations, good and bad. Of course I'm not prompted to use the word because the people around me already believe in equality without really thinking about it, as they should. If I were to use the word people would think I'm being sexist because, as I said, there are such connotations with the word.

 

[Jonluw]

I find those definitions of feminism to be sorely lacking. Feminism is the crazy idea that everybody deserves to be treated like a human being, regardless of things like age, race, gender or sexual orientation.

Yikes. Who would believe in that kind of nonsense?

OT: Aren't there a couple of different varieties of feminism as well though?
e.g. the ones who think women are the superior sex, and want less rights for men, along with a couple of others.
I think I remember some sort of thread on the issue.

 

[Hazy992]

I don't identify as feminist because the word holds lots of different connotations depending on whom you ask, and I believe I shouldn't have to specify that I want the sexes to be equal. It should be the default position.

Yeah pretty much this. I'm not an activist but I believe women should have equal opportunity and rights as men and visa versa. Pretty simply really.

Thirded. If going by that definition then I'm obviously I'm a feminist. Equal rights for the sexes should be a given in my eyes.

 

[Moth_Monk]

I find those definitions of feminism to be sorely lacking. Feminism is the crazy idea that everybody deserves to be treated like a human being, regardless of things like age, race, gender or sexual orientation.

Yikes. Who would believe in that kind of nonsense?

OT: Aren't there a couple of different varieties of feminism as well though?
e.g. the ones who think women are the superior sex, and want less rights for men, along with a couple of others.
I think I remember some sort of thread on the issue.

Radical vs mainstream feminism, yes.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

What definition are we going by?

The dictionary/historical definition, in which feminism is the belief that women hold the same intrinsic value as human beings that men do, and should be treated accordingly?

Or the Escapist/Internet definition, where feminists are terrifying man-hating radicals who are trying to emasculate and destroy you when they're not busy filing fake rape charges and destroying proud institutions with their malevolent feminist schemes?

 

[Jonluw]

Yikes. Who would believe in that kind of nonsense?

OT: Aren't there a couple of different varieties of feminism as well though?
e.g. the ones who think women are the superior sex, and want less rights for men, along with a couple of others.
I think I remember some sort of thread on the issue.

Radical vs mainstream feminism, yes.

And as is the problem with any movement, the radicals are the ones most people think of when they hear the name of the group.
And thus arises the whole 'femnazi' problematic in the public conscious.

So I just choose to say straight forward that I believe women are of equal value to any other human if someone asks, rather than identify as feminist and have to explain what I actually mean every time it comes up.

 

[Broady Brio]

The few "feminists" I've had the displeasure of meeting committed Misandry quite openly. Apparently, men are the reason they became feminists.

 

[Heronblade]

In regards to the first definition, yes.

In regards to a few other meanings for the term I can name and have run into, definitely not.

 

[Thaluikhain]

I find those definitions of feminism to be sorely lacking. Feminism is the crazy idea that everybody deserves to be treated like a human being, regardless of things like age, race, gender or sexual orientation.

Yikes. Who would believe in that kind of nonsense?

OT: Aren't there a couple of different varieties of feminism as well though?
e.g. the ones who think women are the superior sex, and want less rights for men, along with a couple of others.
I think I remember some sort of thread on the issue.

Radical vs mainstream feminism, yes.

Radical feminism isn't about wanting gender inequality, it wouldn't be feminism if it was.

It's about what it believes to be the underlying cause of existing inequality.

OTHO, it, and every other of the many forms of feminism around, has been misrepresented as being about oppressing men by people who don't want the genders to nbe equal.

 

[DevilWithaHalo]

Radical feminism isn't about wanting gender inequality, it wouldn't be feminism if it was.

It's about what it believes to be the underlying cause of existing inequality.

OTHO, it, and every other of the many forms of feminism around, has been misrepresented as being about oppressing men by people who don't want the genders to nbe equal.

Ah, the old no true scotsman fallacy... "I disagree with your contextualized definition of a term, therefor you are wrong".

 

[Frankster]

I thought I was according to the first definition.

Yet almost every time there's a sexism thread or gender politics, I tend to find myself of contrary opinion to those who label themselves as feminists so I've concluded that I'm probably not.

So in recent example, I didn't give any money to that womentropes project nor did I believe the flash game on the author being beat up was particularly noteworthy or unusual as those games have existed since net got invented and involved just about every celebrity imaginable, male and female alike.

I also don't believe lara getting felt up briefly by a bad guy in tomb raider trailer was sexual assault or portrayed lara as weak. I think that's about it on my stances on this months sexism hot topics.

So seriouly dunno what i am anymore.

 

[Vie]

Male, and yes.

I don't consider myself inherently superior to a woman because I have a penis and lack breasts. While there are physical and neurological differences that lead to men being better in some areas, and women better in others, on average both genders are about equal. Since I accept this, and live in a society that has yet to have true equality, I am a feminist.

I want to see a world in which a woman with the same qualifications as a man gets paid the same wage. Where a man can get paternal leave to care for his children, and where there is an equal chance of a politician/CEO/police officer/member of the military/cook/nurse being male or female.

Well, technically it would have to be a 52% chance of being female since 52% of the population is female. But you get the idea.