This is kind of off-topic but.....
Paranoid much?
The background here is that a lot of people
do come here pretending they are someone else. You should probably just ignore these remarks since -- if you are not pretending -- they are not aimed at you. It's probably hard to see the remarks as not personal, but that would be best.
Of course according to you I can't be a feminist because it doesn't fall within your guidelines. What-fucking-ever.Well that's actually a compliment. They are saying you don't seem to be enough a misandronist bigoted bitch to be a feminist. Get it? For what it's worth the feminists at Ms are saying the same thing. I mean would you be insulted if someone told you that you don't seem to be a misandrist bigoted bitch? this is a translation problem here because to you the word "feminist" means something different. Incidentally it is you that has the unrealistic and less factually correct impression of the word, but I will grant you that you have the more commonly understood meaning. However when in Rome ..... you need to take into account the word means something else here not try and chastise everyone here for using the word differently (and more accurately).
You guys can sit there and make your assumptions about what I am and what I am not. I know where I sit on the political compass. To me it really isn't up for debate. So go ahead and make your judgements. Stick a label on me if you wish to. I really don't have any control of what you think, nor would I care to.Anniee says you are not on trial but you are actually, and I think that's something you knew would happen when you came to a board that you thought of as anti-feminist (correctly) and declared you were a feminist. So I don't apologise for these questions because you knew what you were getting into there (and it doesn't have to be negative anyway).
(I do apologise for all the questions about whether you are a real person or someone pretending -- you should just ignore all that).
Now back on topic.
You accuse us of sticking a label on you, but that is what you set up when you came here. You put forward your label of "feminist" and then you claimed to have a political viewpoint that contrasted with feminism (equality). You've agreed that the feminist movement is not about treating men and women equally - you've said it would be ridiculous to claim that feminists don't treat women better, so you set up this contention.
Some of this is just about labels. The different meaning you seem to have for the word "feminist". That is not the interesting part but it obscures what is going on. Putting a positive association on a group is to support that group and endorse its true behaviour. To you "feminism" is something good, but you recognise that feminism has a bias towards women. So you have some explaining to do. And I think your statement that you know where you sit on the political compass may also be false. Self-knowledge is not easy; not that easy anyway. I am not sensing clarity in your attitude here. You have loyalties which are diametrically opposed to some other stated beliefs.
Now possibly you are clear on this and you just haven't been clear in communicating what you beleive. Do you see why what you are saying is confusing? This goes back to the chocolate cake / cheese cake thing.
Why do I not call myself an egalitarian? Well I do.
Yes, but not in the same sense that you call yourself a feminist, right? it's not an identity.
I will be perfectly honest. I had to think about this long and hard DavidByron. My first response was that I don't. But then I really wanted to dig a little deeper to see if perhaps I do have some subconscious leanings in that direction. And in some things I do. Some things. But then as a whole, I feel very confident in saying that my overall goal in issues is to see that fairness rules the day.
Alrighty then, could you name what you had in mind when you said "in some things I do"?
