the F-word
I believe that men and women enjoy the same natural rights. If this is all you mean by feminism, then count me among the feminists. But that is not how I know anyone to actually use the word -- even when they claim that that's all they mean by it.As far as I can tell, feminism is a form of socialist class conflict theory where class is replaced with sex, sex is different from gender, and gender is culturally constructed. It is in this way that I consider myself anti-feminist.
I love Wendy McElroy and I love her iFeminist stuff. I appreciate her distinction between individualist feminism and gender feminism (which Mises called liberal feminism and socialist feminism, respectively). But outside the libertarian movement, I've only ever heard the F-word used to refer to what McElroy calls gender feminism.
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Well, there seem to be some, such as Roderick Long, who describe a feminism which says considerably more than simply that men and women share the same natural rights, but, at the same time, is definitely not a socialist conflict theory. Long and Charles Johnson criticize those who they see as too quick to lump innocent parties in with the really bad socialist-conflict theorists.
Yeah, insofar as I can make any sense of the term-of-abuse "gender feminism," I reckon I'm a gender feminist, for reasons Charles and I explained here.
And remember, both the economic and the gender versions of class conflict theory were first developed by libertarians and then stolen and messed up by state socialists.
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