• jeffw@lemmy.worldOP
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    5 months ago

    Except movements are often named after the oppressed group. Black Lives Matter, for example, doesn’t really want cops to only stop killing Black people. Black people are just disproportionately impacted.

    Feminism is about raising up women’s status in society. That benefits men in the process though.

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      5 months ago

      Except movements are often named after the oppressed group

      That’s nice, but I don’t care. Doing things in a stupid way because “that’s how we’ve always done it” is literally conservativism, which I’m not really for.

      This thread originates from a comment surprised that people would look at a gendered term and assume actions done in that name are for said gender, this should be an obvious and predictable outcome, one that’s been seen countless times, and has a simple and easy fix