What is the dividing line between feminism and equalism?

Question

Is it the difference between laws that prevent discrimination and those laws that provide positive discrimination for woman?

Answer 1

Positive discrimination?  That does not exist.  Attempting to stereotype gets a group nowhere, it's posturing and also revealing.

Answer 2

No.

Next question please.

Answer 3

No. The difference is that feminists tend to focus more on problems faced by women. This is not to say that they are oblivious or insensitive to men's problems.

Answer 4

It is not "positive discrimination" (as you put it)...it is the support of it, that separates feminism from equalism.

Answer 5

According to most feminist scholars, there really is no difference.  Feminists seek to end sexist oppression.  According to bell hooks, my personal favorite feminist author, feminism must make the eradication of EVERY form of oppresion a priority.  And I like to orient my self towards that world view.

The trend of people thinking women are looking for what you're calling "positive discrimination" are looking to silence issues that really do need addressing.  Things as everyday as the wage gap and reproductive health insurance/education to as extreme as FGM are concerns of feminists and most educated, humanistic folks.

Answer 6

theres no credible such thing as equalism.

thats just some c**p

feminism is a fine thing

and a fine part of our history

so tell Rush Limbaugh that the next time you see him, BoyGeorge!

Answer 7

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that the term "feminism" does not exactly describe equality. If "masculinism" is the belief that men are superior to women, then "feminism" would be the exact opposite; belief that women are superior to men.

Shouldn't the correct term be equalism?

Answer 8

when universal equalism prevails there will be no need for feminism. Till then there will be an issue to fight for- but in this fight positive discrimination is highly discouraged,except maybe in countries where the womans life is in jeopardy solely because she is born a woman and needs protective laws just to barely survive. in the rest of the instances it is just equality and freedom of choice that is sought after

Answer 9

There is an enormous difference between feminism and equalism. Feminism can be sexist and racist but equalism regards all men and women as PEOPLE regardless of their gender and colour of their skin.

Answer 10

Tonight on Yahoo, it's coming down to whether you believe a grown man should be able to publicly boast about having s3x with underage girls.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

There's a strange silence on the subject from the "equalists", I might say ...

Cheers :-)

Answer 11

Feminism (and masculism, too) are s*x-based, s*x-biased, and therefore ultimately socially divisive.

Equalism is about recognizing that men and women are born DIFFERENT but are of EQUAL WORTH, and entitled to FAIR TREATMENT under JUST LAWS. Note the words in capitals, they are of the essence. (http://www.celticsurf.net/phpBB3/viewfor... ). Equalism regards all men and women as PEOPLE regardless of their gender and colour of their skin.

That, put quite simply, is the dividing line between feminism and equalism.

As for mass "discrimination", be it positive or negative, that is an anathema to any free society.