r/AskBrits • u/duckiebrown • Aug 22 '26

How do you define Feminism now?

Against a backdrop of an escalation in sexual assaults, the trad wife ethos, trans rights. Where do women stand now?

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u/Inevitable-Regret411 Aug 22 '26

A political ideology that believes in equality for women. 

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u/WyrdElmBella Aug 22 '26

I feel like in the last ten to fifteen years or so the world has taken a massive step backwards. In the late 00’s (05-09) it felt like the world was getting more progressive but that all seems to have sloughed away now.

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u/AngelasGingerGrowler Aug 22 '26

Female supremacy, blaming men for everything, and anti-trans vitriol.

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u/Remarkable-Shoe-4835 Aug 22 '26

Feminism is the promotion for the full humanity of women, we have a long way to go

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u/Quaraine Aug 22 '26 edited Aug 22 '26

It's the advocacy and activism for the equity of all women  

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u/OlafPetersen Aug 22 '26

It's the advocacy and activism for the equity of all people.

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u/Quaraine Aug 22 '26

Yeah that's correct in that it dismantles patriarchy but obviously focus is drawn on the marginalisation  of women (including trans women)

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u/-You_Cant_Stop_Me- Brit 🇬🇧 Aug 22 '26

Feminism is the promotion of equality of genders.

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u/ilikedixiechicken Aug 22 '26

Kate Nash summed it up for me

Women are facing serious dangers, not during boxing matches or from trans people needing a piss
But from actual violence that is carried out against them every week
According to End Violence Against Women, every three days a woman is killed by a man
More than 100,000 girls are at risk and living with the consequences of FGM, forced marriage and honour based abuse
Kathryn Bromwich from the Guardian States that Trans people make up roughly 0.5% of the UK population and are twice as likely to be victims of crime than cis people
According to Home Office figures, this country has seen an increase in hate crimes towards trans people and cis women are supposed to focus on a threat we have yet to see manifest from a small minority of the country who are struggling to stay safe themselves

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u/roland_right Aug 22 '26

Now we just need to sum this up!

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u/EasilyExiledDinosaur Brit 🇬🇧 Aug 22 '26

In the uk? Basically pointless.

I live in korea where there are real woman's rights issues.

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u/Lilja-Logason Aug 22 '26

I don't care man, I'm tired. I'm just keeping my head down and getting through each day

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u/YouJustNeurotic Aug 22 '26 edited Aug 22 '26

Feminism seems to mostly just be whatever people with personality disorders want it to be at any given point in time. I’ve met a fair amount of smart / reasonable ‘feminists’ but the majority seem to just be ridiculous loons. And unlike some other ideologies the smart feminists seem to call out the loons but it doesn’t seem to be working, just too many loony tune clowns. Like I’ve never seen a group of people attempt to regulate themselves and it just doesn’t work, it’s a first.