Unpopular Opinion
Welcome to the Unpopular Opinion community!
How voting works:
Vote the opposite of the norm.
If you agree that the opinion is unpopular give it an arrow up. If it's something that's widely accepted, give it an arrow down.
Guidelines:
Tag your post, if possible (not required)
- If your post is a "General" unpopular opinion, start the subject with [GENERAL].
- If it is a Lemmy-specific unpopular opinion, start it with [LEMMY].
Rules:
1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
2. Be civil.
Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.
5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
6. Defend your opinion
This is a bit of a mix of rules 4 and 5 to help foster higher quality posts. You are expected to defend your unpopular opinion in the post body. We don't expect a whole manifesto (please, no manifestos), but you should at least provide some details as to why you hold the position you do.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
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No, it should still be called feminism. That's what it is. It's an ideology with a ton of different variants/branches, with the most 'generic' sort of definition, from dictionary.com, being the advocacy of women's rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes. Feminism has always been about this, hence the advocacy in favour of equity in areas where women are under-represented, but no advocacy for non-women in areas where women are 'ahead'. Sorta like how left leaning sorts point to a theory of equity that values the equality of outcomes to justify things like DEI -- but if anyone points out that the aggregate 'outcome' from our healthcare approach results in women living ~5 years longer than men on average, meaning an 'equality of outcomes' approach should preference men's health care needs until that gap is closed, suddenly they'll have excuses why their vision of equity exempts that particular case.
There's no real reason to change the term feminism, it fits with what feminist ideals generally are and has a valid place as a general ideology. It's especially pertinent in areas where women's rights are massively under-represented / ignored.
Equality of all people is egalitarianism. It's been around for longer than feminism, in general. Feminists are not egalitarian, as they aren't about equality of all people, and instead only focus on a specific niche, and ultimately are ok if their niche is preferenced / comes out on top. Both ideologies can exist just fine. What needs to change is your perspective of what feminism is, as you seem to mistakenly think its about equality for everyone.