There’s always been a negative stigma around feminism, and besides, we’ve all heard of men against feminism or the ever-so-famous ‘meninism’, a notion preaching the superiority of men and the oppression of women by means of gender-stereotypical satire. Yet lately, an even more ridiculous notion has become increasingly popular: women against feminism. Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, but whoever came up with ‘women against feminism’ clearly just gargled. Most anti-feminist women claim that they are not feminists because they, ‘don’t believe in woman superiority’ or ‘don't hate men’, well, to all you ignorant anti-feminists: feminism is the notion that women should be equal to men and that sexism should not be a common practice in everyday society. Still anti-feminist now, girls?
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The right to vote, reproductive and equal pay rights as well as protection against domestic and sexual harassments are all rights females have earned through feminist movements, yet these protections don't always prevent harmful acts towards women. For instance, as an anti-feminist woman, I suppose you are not bothered that as a female, you are subject to a 23% pay gap in the workforce, alarmed by the fact that the over-sexualization of women in the media contributes to the high female sexual assault rate, or even disturbed that white men dominate the workplace due to structural gender and racial
The right to vote, reproductive and equal pay rights as well as protection against domestic and sexual harassments are all rights females have earned through feminist movements, yet these protections don't always prevent harmful acts towards women. For instance, as an anti-feminist woman, I suppose you are not bothered that as a female, you are subject to a 23% pay gap in the workforce, alarmed by the fact that the over-sexualization of women in the media contributes to the high female sexual assault rate, or even disturbed that white men dominate the workplace due to structural gender and racial