CitizenErased
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Sorry, they're using the wrong definition of feminism for me to feel represented by that quiz. None of the six categories spoke to me.
I took the quiz just for fun, because I'm way to far from the US to care or understand well the percentages shown. But I agree that my definition of feminism, based in the 1920s revolution, is way simpler (basic) and "egalitarian".
In my opinion, women have to focus on big changes, like succesfully stopping ablations, or allow women to have free speech regardless of their religion. For a better understanding, I want to share what happens in my country (Argentina). The simplest things of life have changed. In Spanish, nouns have gender, though not all of them, and the plural for a group who includes both genders is masculine. Now, not anymore. Unisex nouns have now a feminine version, and if you want to use the plural, you have to say "the (nouns for females) and (noun for males)...". In public universities there are classes occupied by girls who bring boys (and some willingly go) to humiliate them and tell them how evil their gender has been with women since the beginning. That, among other little crazy stuff, like feminist women not wanting to walk inside/out of a building when men open the door for them because they say that "chivalry" was invented by men to look at women's asses.
I don't say that throughout history men haven't lived better lives than women, having more liberties, etc. But going to the extreme of thinking that a language is denigrating a gender and women should be offended, it's a little bit too much. I believe that all people should be treated equally, regardless of their gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, etc (I don't believe "race" is even a term). We're all human, and that's what counts for me. Women shoul stop thinking that because men held the whip for 5000 years, now it's our turn. And I know the power women have when hysteric. I really fear for men.
So, a "feminist" who wants all women to be treated with respect, yes. "Feminist" who wants to punish, no.