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[Attack on Titan/Shingeki No Kyojin]

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[The Muppet Movie]

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[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]

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[Frozen]

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[Once Upon a Time]

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[Dissonance]

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[Zooey Deschanel]

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[My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic]

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[Eona: The Last Dragoneye]

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I think it's outdated. The term, not the ideals. The issue with feminist is that while it preaches equality for all, it only specifies fem- in its label, which turns off a whole lot of people. If the interest of a new generation of people who weren't around for the start of it and don't have the education about it is what we're trying to obtain, a new label might work better.

I suppose the question is, what's more important, our pride in the label or the possibility of something else being more effective in practice of reaching new people?

To me, the problem isn't that feminism specifies fem- in its label; the problem is that a lot of people have gotten the idea that if you're a feminist, that's all you are. That it's exclusive. That's the problem. It's one component of a worldview, not a worldview in itself.

I think it's telling that despite every masculine term in the English language that women are forced to fall under alongside men - including the term "woman" in and of itself - it's only when a term is feminine that suddenly we need to worry about changing labels. Like, there is a very prevalent dislike and fear of prioritizing women in any group or ideology that always needs to be addressed, and I feel like using "feminism" addresses that from the gate, so it still serves a purpose.

It's not about prioritizing women, it's about an ideology that says equality for all, prioritizing anything

Equality = nobody gets priority over anyone else

It's like if we called an ideology that said equality for all races and called it hispanicism, then dismissed anyone saying the term hispanicism is not really representative of the ideology because hispanic people never get prioritized elsewhere, so it serves are purpose so it's fine. I don't think everyone else would be too happy with that

Equality is the goal of the ideology, but the actual work that goes into feminism can't operate as if the playing field is already equal between the sexes, therefore equal attention can be paid to both, when the whole point of its existence is that that isn't true. It's kind of like...putting the cart before the horse when the destination hasn't been reached, it halts progress by causing people to act like equality has already been achieved and stabilized and any further discussion is purely academic. Which a lot of people do, in fact, act like whenever feminism is brought up. I doubt renaming it to "equalism" or something will help with that.

da

I hadn't thought of it like that, and can see the truth in your words, so thank you!

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