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Feminism isn't Your Ancestral Property for You to Redefine. Feminists aren't Your Slaves to Do What You Want

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  “Social equality is a state of affairs in which all people within a specific society have equal rights, liberties, and status, possibly including civil rights, freedom of speech, property rights, and equal access to certain social goods and social services. Social equality requires the absence of legally enforced social class or caste boundaries and the absence of discrimination motivated by an inalienable part of a person's identity.” Read the above 10 times. Feminism and social equality are not your bequeathed ancestral property for you to redefine. So many culture vultures are redefining feminism. Apparently, feminism isn’t about women doing everything men do. Also, it’s apparently not about women dressing “vulgarly.” In other words, it’s “Men will decide what women should do and can do. Women should wear the dresses men approve.” It’s just soft re-establishing of patriarchy, these redefinitions. Everything, including drinking, clubbing, wearing what we like/comforta...