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And I will abandon the women are out for you sentiment when you acknowledge the assumptions that were made about my 'pseudo feminism' and the area where I live were out of line. I'm afraid your exposure to feminism is limited if I come off as extreme.

Are you saying that there is not a correlation between geographical location and inequality? In Saudi Arabia the average woman has it a hell of a lot worse than their Western counterparts, this is a fact. My assumption about where you live were justified I think, because I did not realize you were being rhetorical with the list of "then you'll understand"s, and understood it as a list of things that have happened to you. Is that unreasonable?

I would like to clarify that I do not think yo u are being extreme and I never called you that, I simply argued the merits of feminist extremism which you seemed to support. Hey, fighting for women's rights is a very noble endeavor. Believe me, I am all for it. I just think that extremism is always a slippery slope. It's not a matter of if somebody corrupts the message, it's a matter of when. I hope you are not saying that feminism has not been taken too far in the past, and while that certainly isn't the fault of every day feminists, it is a structural problem that can be exploited or just fall apart of its own accord.

Your point about egalitarians being more apathetic than feminists is perhaps valid, but I would perhaps say they are merely less passionate. It's certainly not an issue that keeps me awake at night, because as you would say I am privileged. That being said I do not like to see anybody receiving undue treatment and I do what I can to not propagate the idea myself. You have to understand that where I live it is not proper to "cat call" women or tell rape jokes (I did not even know there was such a thing). Most manifestations of sexism here are too subtle to notice most of the time, let alone criticize.