Marknis wrote:
magz wrote:
Marknis wrote:
If she simply wanted to be treated as a equal human being, I would have no problem dating a feminist. If she wanted to deconstruct me for being a “evil male”, that would be a deal breaker.
I completely agree with you on it.
Oddly, a lot of the pro-feminists here will say things like not all feminists are man haters but if you specifically state you have no problem with equality seeking feminists and only man hating feminists, you still get accused of hating feminists or even women in general. It’s ridiculous.
I don't identify as a feminist myself but if someone uses my gender, age, social status or other things like that as excuses to be disrespectful, I can be quite nasty to them. I believe people should be respected, I respect them by default and I demand some basic respect for myself.
I know some feminists who are haters and some feminists who are not haters. So, "not all feminists are haters" is technically true.
Marknis wrote:
I’ve actually been told by more conservative people that Asian and Middle Eastern women should be chasing after me since I am a “white American male” while more liberal people tell me I can only “fetishize” those two groups of women and never truly love them. Both sides are wrong for different reasons. The former is wrong because I didn’t go to a city school so I didn’t get to make any social connections with those of the Asian and Middle Eastern communities in my area
I hope if you met them anyway, you wouldn't write them off
Marknis wrote:
while the latter are wrong because they are making extremely stupid assumptions.
I'm glad you see it the way it is.
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