Is feminism only as strong as the men who support it?

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6. No

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Feminism is only as strong as the women who shed blood, and swear and tears and lives to fight patriartical systems. Men, decent men, follow because they recognize inherent injustice in such systems.

Language is very powerful, it carries cultural freight; words fall in and out of fashion, some people re able to carry words so far it transcends original meaning--for a time. Men are in power all over the world, we recognize this, we understand it. Women have been trained from birth to fear men, to not speak up, to not fight. We do anyway. And when a woman stands on the backs of those who went before her, to provide her with actual choices, and claims 'I'm not a feminist' they simply don't understand history, or don't care.

That being said, we seem to be out of Dworkins, Feminism has fractured, but I don't see that as bad. Women of color are speaking up. Women of religion are speaking up. Women in the most unlikely countries are speaking up. Women in the most unlikely professions are speaking up. It's not all called feminism but feminisn laid the groundwork

We are sick of the bullshit.

In the West, the era of the straight white male is almost over, which is why there is such ugly pushback. Elsewhere, strongly ingrained cultural values and norms are being challenged, also with very ugly pushback.

Excellent article BTW