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Originally Posted by octothorp
Start by accepting that feminists and their allies are not your opponents...
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Feminism as a political movement in 2017 is rooted in Marxist dogma, and is hostile to classical liberalism. So anyone who is a classical liberal - who believes people should be treated as individuals, tolerate the widest possible scope of opinion and expression, and freedom should usually win out in the trade-off between freedom and security - are correct in identifying feminism as an opponent (along with religious fundamentalism, ultra-right nationalism, and other authoritarian dogmas).
Feminism has come to represent a narrowly dogmatic worldview and political program. There's a reason fewer than 25 per cent of Canadian women self-identify as feminists, even though over 90 per cent believe women should have the same rights and freedoms as men. The ideological underpinning of third and fourth wave feminism simply isn't very convincing or attractive to most women.