Argumentative Penguin
2 min readOct 25, 2024

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You cannot on the one hand say 'feminism advocates for gender equality' and then on the other hand absolve women of responsibility for rap music, strip clubs, entertainment and the sexualisation of women. There are some women who play into all of these things and that's part of the problem. Feminism hasn't squared the sexuality circle and hasn't managed since the 1960s.

Men are struggling. Women are struggling. Feminism seeks to empower both groups to play an equal part in the solution. Faux feminism, as the OP outlined very well in his interview, is when the half of the population with vaginas decide that the other half with the penis are a) entirely responsible and b) are inherently bad as people and should be punished as a collective.

Your comment literally demonstrates the problem the OP has outlined - and you don't see it. You think it's an attack on feminism. It isn't. It's an attack on faux-feminism. That's how echo-chamber based the gender divide has become. And no. I'm not absolving men of responsibility. I'm suggesting that feminism by its nature understands unity, concord and cooperation by both sexes is how progress is made.

Either that or everyone agrees to just thump anyone with different genitals until the world ends. The OP's piece is surprisingly insightful and there's plenty to consider and take on board for actual feminists. However, actual feminists no longer want to be associated with the knee-jerk vitriol, so the movement is losing steam in its marketing if not in its stated aims. I'll keep being a gender egalitarian, but I'll never be a feminist again. You carry on being the latter and see which cul-de-sac it leads itself into.

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Argumentative Penguin
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