Men's Liberation
This community is first and foremost a feminist community for men and masc people, but it is also a place to talk about men’s issues with a particular focus on intersectionality.
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Everybody is welcome, but this is primarily a space for men and masc people
Non-masculine perspectives are incredibly important in making sure that the lived experiences of others are present in discussions on masculinity, but please remember that this is a space to discuss issues pertaining to men and masc individuals. Be kind, open-minded, and take care that you aren't talking over men expressing their own lived experiences.
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Recommended Reading
- The Will To Change: Men, Masculinity, And Love by bell hooks
- Politics of Masculinities: Men in Movements by Michael Messner
Related Communities
!feminism@beehaw.org
!askmen@lemmy.world
!mensmentalhealth@lemmy.world
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Is there an accepted definition for feminism or is it a case of "we love this thing so everything good with the world is feminism"? I mean is Christmas feminism? People get together and care for their fellow people? Is X factor feminism? Everyone gets around a TV set and cares for their favourite acts.
I appreciate those 2 points are ridiculous and intentionally so. The point being definitions are important. If you cannot define something, its everything and nothing all at once. To many, feminism seems to come across a little cultish and becomes very easy for folk to highlight examples that ridicule it. Before long, no one would admit they are or support it. That's the real danger.
To be fully clear, I think feminism is very important and is needed to resolve many ills in this world, but the way it's used leaves absolutely confusion. I don't think anyone outside online activists understand it.
Ugh lost my first version of this comment so sorry if this is terse.
Asking for one definition of feminism is nonsense. Some words have multiple definitions that is simply the reality of language. You don't need a unifying definition of landscape that includes both a natural view and the aspect ratio or printing format. Feminism is a school of critical thought, a field of academic study, and a group of different political movements that largely originated in the first.
I think laypeople are confused about feminism in part because they have been misled to be confused about feminism by conservatives, and in part because feminism is a movement that has had multiple generations of thought.
At its core, I would say that feminism is the idea that by examining society through the lens of gendered interactions we can change those interactions to make society a more just and fair place, but definitions of feminism are a matter of academic debate.