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Passenger I see feminism as the subset of egalitarianism ("equal rights for all") which deals specifically with women's rights/issues. You can be a feminist and not be an egalitarian, which makes you a shitty human being, but you can't be an egalitarian without being a feminist. Even if most feminists are not egalitarians (which I don't believe to be true), that doesn't mean they are shitty people because they are feminists, it means they are shitty people because they are not egalitarians.
Feminism is the belief that women should have the same rights and opportunities as men. That's it. If you agree with that, you are a feminist.
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uh-oh if Starbucks won't hire you because of your gender or appearance that is some form of discrimination, certainly, but not an argument against feminism. If a warehouse won't hire a woman
because she is a woman, that's a feminist issue. If a warehouse won't hire "a person" because there are other applicants, male or female, who are better suited to the job, that's just common sense. Not a feminist issue.
Men's rights are often the other side of the same coin. Especially the one you bring up. Why do you think courts/authorities think it's an acceptable arrangement for a father to pay huge amounts of child support and hardly get to see his kids? Because "men are providers and women are nurturers". Feminism tries to erase this belief and replace it with the belief that both parents have a responsibility to provide for and nurture their children.