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by 1maginary 3408 days ago
>A movement is defined by what it does

Can we really attribute what a noisy minority does to the movement's actions, though? Even if said minority claims to be part of the movement. At what point do we draw the line?

Most feminists, admittedly talking from experience here, are moderates.

Comparing this to Kim Jong Un's actions isn't fair, as you're comparing the actions of a specific individual to those of a non-representative group of people.

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Who says it's a noisy minority? I'm not talking about extremist actions like pulling fire alarms at university talks.

I'm talking about really basic things, like campaigning for more women to enter university (and not more men) despite the fact that women already greatly outnumber men in university. This isn't a fringe thing, it's core mainstream feminism. And it's exactly the opposite of "pushing for equality".

(You're right about Kim. Instead of writing his name, I should've written "North Korean government/society", to clarify that I'm talking about these groups and highlighting the gap between their stated principles and their actual actions.)