What exactly constitutes a feminist?

Question

I'm just curious.

Answer 1

read all about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminist_th...

Answer 2

That's like asking what exactly constitutes a republican. It's a personal choice and a personal definition for each feminist.

For example, I'm a feminist because I believe women should step forward and take more powerful and dominant roles in our country, and that if they did so, things would improve. I'm not saying men have run us into the ground, I'm saying it's time to see how women would run the joint!

Some knee-jerk folks define feminists as angry bull lesbians who believe all men are scum who should be shot on sight. That's like saying every republican is a gun-toting patriarchal anti-abortion christian fanatic.

Answer 3

Well spoken, Crouching Doggie and Ryde On. I believe that if a feminist truly wanted equality, she wouldn't feel the need for a title that refers only to females, she would instead be an equalist. I believe people who call themselves feminists fit the descriptions of the above mentioned people.  

Answer 4

In the modern era, it's such a complex issue that it seems that there's no consensus.  I'm of the sincere opinion that a modern Feminist is one who espouses the notion of hatred of men, liberal ideology and essentially a hateful philosophy with respect to traditional values and other such things.  Modern Feminism also holds women who disagree with the underlying philosophy in contempt, as disagreement with the philosophy is regarded as treason.  Disagreement with the hateful philosophy is regarded as unacceptable and thus contrary opinion is suppressed.  There is no greater threat to Western civilization than modern Feminism.  It's so transparent in the subtext of the writing and rhetoric that it's not a "nice" philosophy, rather it's entirely destructive.

Answer 5

Carbon, oxygen, flesh, blood, bones, minerals, DNA, water...

Answer 6

Someone who believe that women should have more rights than men.

Answer 7

The belief that all humans are of equal worth and should be treated in such a manner.  This concerns abolishing all isms such as classism, sexism, ableism, rascism etc.

Answer 8

I am not sure, there must be a rule book somewhere that says what one is, what one thinks, how one acts and all the things they believe, since everyone seems to know.  

Someone, I think Patois, here wrote once about what being a feminist meant and the concept of human rights and being a humanist.  It was an excellent piece, but the question she replied to disappeared.

Answer 9

Man-hating oddities, nothing more.