Gender

[Paddy™]

You keep offering reasons for being a feminist which don't have anything to do with feminism. If you're being groped or harassed or discredited you don't need to adopt an ideology. Wanting to see justice and equality for women isn't the same as being a feminist, this is where we seem to diverge. I want to see an end to drug addiction, but that doesn't require me to sign up with Scientology and "go clear" in the process. I see feminism as much of the same thing; well-meaning people being funnelled into a cultish movement which proclaims itself to be the only solution.

Saying that a man is "privileged" is indeed an insult when you're rattling off soundbites like "check yo' privilege" in debates. Saying things like that is a way of undermining the position of the males you're talking to. When people say "check yo' privilege" they generally don't do it with a soft, kind voice and a sympathetic tone. They use it as an insult.

EDIT: the post to which I replied is now gone. That'll teach me to take a dump mid-post XD