I realise that Straight White Male is the lowest difficulty setting there is and you should read the article there. Go and do it! Right now. I'll wait. Done, good. Now read the follow up articles.
Okay, so, I am not opposing women who attack men. I am opposing women who attack women for not being feminist. If a woman chooses to be the person at the braai who prepares the salad, if a woman chooses to have children and (given the means) stay at home and look after them, if a woman chooses to take a traditional role in life, what is the harm in that?
What proportion of Fortune 500s CEO's are women? I don't care, there are, by definition, 500 of them which is 0.00000007% of the population, and while it shows symptoms of a much broader underlying problem, that's not the place to start fixing it. Why aren't you equally concerned with Height Discrimination?
What I'm trying to say, is, according to me, you should be a feminist (man or woman). You don't have to be an activist but if you are, thank you for being a better person than me. If you are an activist, do things that matter. Don't waste time and energy at a social function telling a woman who has chosen to do the cooking that she shouldn't. I say that because you are wrong. It is her choice not yours.
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