Is feminism still necessary in modern society?
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I think that feminism is ABSOLUTELY needed in modern society.
Nonsense. Women now outearn men in most Western cities, dominate universities, and control half the wealth. What specific oppression justifies this crusade, or are we simply redefining disagreement as discrimination?
What is your definition of feminism?
The ideology that women face systemic oppression requiring institutional solutions. But here's my challenge: name one legal right men possess that women don't. You can't, because they don't exist in the West anymore.
That is absolute nonsense, according to the UN women posses roughly about 64% of the legal rights of men even now
The UN conflates legal rights with enforcement and cultural practice—a sleight of hand. Show me the law denying women something, not vague metrics about "implementation gaps." Name one.
And what about the women in Afghanistan? Who are forced to wear burqas and have almost most of their rights striped off of them? They cannot go to school and most of them have to marry when they're still not fully developed, basically a child.
You've just abandoned the West entirely—the actual battleground of modern feminism. Afghanistan isn't feminism's problem; it's theocracy's. Women there need liberation from Taliban rule, not gender ideology lectures. Western feminism pontificates about pronouns while ignoring actual slavery. If your movement genuinely cared, it would storm Kabul, not Twitter. Why doesn't it?
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