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[–] SunshineJogger@feddit.org 15 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Just treat people equally. That's it. Thats all anyone has to do. Male, female, any eye color, skin color, hair color, tall, short and anything in between. Just give all the same baseline and judge based on attitude and actions from there.

[–] tresspass@lemmy.world 42 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah. Why can't we just look at everyone's asses equally? Smh

[–] ghen@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 hours ago

Honestly this is the answer. You can look and also be respectful to the person at the same time. That is what both feminists and others want. Just not the bigots, they don't know what respect is.

[–] MJKee9@lemmy.world 9 points 4 hours ago

That's my philosophy.

[–] ytg@sopuli.xyz 9 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] SunshineJogger@feddit.org 9 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

No. It's simply egalitarianism.

Feminism is focused one a singular aspect, which in itself can destoy what it seeks to do by placing the topic itself as seperated from all others.

I mean yes, it's necessary because there are severe issues, yet the overarching attitude I often observe when singular aspects of egalitarianism are grabbed to focus on get quickly out of sync and even turn into what they fight.

I've seen sexist feminists who are not aware that they are sexist. Driven into it by the frustration of inequality which is slow moving and sometimes even moves backwards. Frustration can corrupt.

Gender inequality is a symptom of the broken societies we live in. Alleviating symptoms doesn't cure the core problem.

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 16 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Lotta guys involved for a speech about feminism

[–] LadyButterfly@lemmy.world -2 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Yep and it looks like a meeting of the straight white man club.

[–] damnedfurry@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

How progressive of you to assume gender identities and sexualities of strangers via a single still image.

[–] LadyButterfly@lemmy.world -2 points 2 hours ago

That's why I said "looks like" and not that it is. Sad truth is LGBT people aren't often found in jobs like that... and it would be statistically unusual for most or all of them to be LGBT.

[–] catty@lemmy.world 7 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

Spoken like a true not-crazy-feminist who does not have a problem with straight white men and who thinks can tell a man's sexuality by looking at him.

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world -1 points 42 minutes ago* (last edited 41 minutes ago)

Foolish us. the traditional white male suit and haircut is how any gender that is fluid identify. how could we all miss that.

Sorry your feefees got hurt that the attention was not on praising the white male at every given second of eternity. Not sorry.

[–] Atlas_@lemmy.world 45 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

It's not disrespectful to look, and that's all we can see these people doing from these two frames. Hell, it's just about involuntary to take a glance.

It would be disrespectful to stare or make comments/rude gestures, but I doubt that's what's happening here.

[–] EarlGrey@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 5 hours ago

I thoroughly support advancing the causes of feminism and women's rights across the world, and would happily listen actively to what she has to say.

But also Emma is pretty fucking hot. And that fit looks good on her.

[–] MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 hours ago

goddamn, I'm amazed by the reasonableness of these comments.

[–] Leather@lemmy.world 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

She's a moving object, our eyes are drawn to movement. She's on the a stage. Most people in the room would be looking at her.

[–] catty@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

They're staring at something in front of / past her. Or it was shopped. These are smart, camera-aware men. Just another image created to instil hatred at men for feminists to rage on. Had it been about women hating on men, they would have been triumphant. All whilst men have to take whatever's given by these chronically online ill-informed women otherwise such women are complaining the men can't accept it.

Go check out c/womensstuff for such loonies!

[–] foggianism@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Nothing more feminine that being admired by men

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world -2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Nothing more feminine than a bunch of men

fellas, is it gay to like women?

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today -1 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Some people just haven't had the experience they just wish and wish but nobody will play with them. Others just play too much. I wish people would just be more open. Imagine a world where you could hear everyone's thoughts like in the movies, but you would have to live with that in real life and so would everyone else.

You would have to become very open to everyone's real imaginative parts. Everyone would also have to be more conservative with their thoughts near others.

[–] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

With my ADHD, my thoughts would likely cause eldritch madness in others.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 1 points 1 hour ago

That's what I think about myself too.

[–] darcranium123@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

What does "play mean in this instance?

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 175 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

Just to be clear, feminism isn't about not being attracted to beautiful women. It's perfectly human to admire someone's beautiful features, regardless of anyone's gender. Feminism is about respect, equality, rejecting prescribed roles and limitations placed on gender, and acknowledging and addressing privilege and patriarchal systems of society.

Notice none of those things means you can't still like the sight of boobs, butts, legs, abs, biceps, or whatever gets you excited. It does mean that you shouldn't reduce someone's value to those things, nor should your excitement about seeing someone's beautiful physical attributes become a problem for them, like if you harass them or catcall them over it, or worse.

But Emma is well respected, not only as an actress but as an advocate, and she's there to represent a great cause to the UN. They can respect her and her work and message and still think she's a knockout at the same time. They're not mutually exclusive, and that's a pretty relevant part of feminism, divorcing worth as a person from sexuality and attractiveness.

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[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 24 points 22 hours ago

🤷 they may only get one chance to look at Emma Watsons ass in real life... They took it. Doesn't make it right... I'm just saying.

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