True Feminism = equality for all. These feminists fight not only for the rights of women, but for the rights of men, LGBTQ+ people, people of colour, and basically everyone who is treated as inequal. They will call out injustice when it is seen, and they will help to prevent it from happening again.
Radical Feminism = superiority for biological females. These "feminists" base their beliefs on the idea that, since men have ruled the world for thousands of years, it's their "turn". What once started as a small group of supporters has become a misandrist cult. These are the feminists that say "kill all men", and throw other people under the bus because they think it'll help them get further.
As you can see, feminism and radical feminism are very different. When people complain about feminists, they are 99/100 times complaining about radical feminists. Given how loud a minority these radfems are, it's no wonder that some people think that's all feminism is. But life isn't a zero-sum game, it's possible for everyone to move up, we don't need to put men down to raise up women or vice versa.
Radical feminism does not mean "women are better than men" or "kill all men"
Radical feminism is about creating fundamental change to society so that men and women are equal while liberal feminism doesn't want equality, they just want less oppression against women rather than getting rid of it completely, liberal feminists don't care about the social aspect of how women are treated in society and just want women to have all the same legal rights.
Radical feminism isn't about transphobia, it isn't about racism, it isn't about hating men, it's not about any of those lies made to cause infighting. JK Rowling isn't a radical feminist (she isn't even a real feminist) people who hate men arn't radical feminist.
People who want complete destruction of the patriarchy are radical feminists.
Radical feminists quite literally see men as the issue. Some radfems want women in a completely separate society from men and call women with boyfriends or husbands traitors. Liberal feminism is equality for all, the ROOTS of all feminism was equality for women, because they were severely oppressed.
Legal changes are societal changes. Society has no influence on behavior outside of that.
Liberal feminism is the destruction of the patriarchy without replacing it with strict rules saying that "women aren't allowed to enjoy this or that because it used to be associated with the patriarchy!" The way so many radical feminists do. Replacing one form of oppression with another solves nothing. Liberal feminism is about thinking about what should come after the patriarchy as much as how to get rid of the patriarchy.
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u/aheartasone 29d ago
True Feminism = equality for all. These feminists fight not only for the rights of women, but for the rights of men, LGBTQ+ people, people of colour, and basically everyone who is treated as inequal. They will call out injustice when it is seen, and they will help to prevent it from happening again.
Radical Feminism = superiority for biological females. These "feminists" base their beliefs on the idea that, since men have ruled the world for thousands of years, it's their "turn". What once started as a small group of supporters has become a misandrist cult. These are the feminists that say "kill all men", and throw other people under the bus because they think it'll help them get further.
As you can see, feminism and radical feminism are very different. When people complain about feminists, they are 99/100 times complaining about radical feminists. Given how loud a minority these radfems are, it's no wonder that some people think that's all feminism is. But life isn't a zero-sum game, it's possible for everyone to move up, we don't need to put men down to raise up women or vice versa.