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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer

Aries . . . I'm sorry - but the video rehashed so many fundamental misconceptions about feminists and feminism that I wouldn't know where to start. In amongst all the clips involved were some things that I agreed with - the cringe-inducing apologies from 'new men'. I'd like to have found them funny - but I didn't. They were just embarrassing - in a way that I saw to be more 'American' than anything else.

But - oh, for god's sake - I'm so tired of saying it - a feminist is someone who believes in freedom for women and their equality with men. If a woman does not exhibit those beliefs, then she is not a feminist, by definition. A feminist is *not* any given woman who is selfish, loud, pushy, aggressive and basically nasty. That's just a right winger's caricature of feminism and feminists. Heads up: women can be, and frequently are, twats. Just like men. No great surprise.

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ORIGINAL: Baroana

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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer

Aries . . . I'm sorry - but the video rehashed so many fundamental misconceptions about feminists and feminism that I wouldn't know where to start. In amongst all the clips involved were some things that I agreed with - the cringe-inducing apologies from 'new men'. I'd like to have found them funny - but I didn't. They were just embarrassing - in a way that I saw to be more 'American' than anything else.

But - oh, for god's sake - I'm so tired of saying it - a feminist is someone who believes in freedom for women and their equality with men. If a woman does not exhibit those beliefs, then she is not a feminist, by definition. A feminist is *not* any given woman who is selfish, loud, pushy, aggressive and basically nasty. That's just a right winger's caricature of feminism and feminists. Heads up: women can be, and frequently are, twats. Just like men. No great surprise.

Thanks, Peon.

Unfortunately, the U.S. on balance is not a nation friendly to feminism, and it never has been.

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ORIGINAL: Baroana

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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer

Aries . . . I'm sorry - but the video rehashed so many fundamental misconceptions about feminists and feminism that I wouldn't know where to start. In amongst all the clips involved were some things that I agreed with - the cringe-inducing apologies from 'new men'. I'd like to have found them funny - but I didn't. They were just embarrassing - in a way that I saw to be more 'American' than anything else.

But - oh, for god's sake - I'm so tired of saying it - a feminist is someone who believes in freedom for women and their equality with men. If a woman does not exhibit those beliefs, then she is not a feminist, by definition. A feminist is *not* any given woman who is selfish, loud, pushy, aggressive and basically nasty. That's just a right winger's caricature of feminism and feminists. Heads up: women can be, and frequently are, twats. Just like men. No great surprise.

Thanks, Peon.

Unfortunately, the U.S. on balance is not a nation friendly to feminism, and it never has been.

Aries is from Australia. What's his excuse?