[Manuel_D]

> Overcorrecting after eons of patriarchal dominance is expected and not necessarily a bad thing IMH

So the MRAs telling me feminists want to go beyond equality and advantage women over men are right!? I have been constantly told that was just a straw-man argument.

Gender equality is a vastly more popular position than privileging one over another. Openly stating that your goal is create gender inequality is an easy ticket to make your movement unappealing.

[zdragnar]

This is the same thinking behind affirmative action and DEI in hiring initiatives in the US. Positive discrimination is necessary to balance out negative discrimination, or so the thinking goes.

In American academic circles in particular, "equality" is out and "equity" is in.