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Is feminism necessary.

Okay, feminism is the act of gaining equality between male and female, not for females to rise above males or vice versa, I understand that males can sometimes be stereotyped as 'pigs' but they are also a wide range of stereotypes against woman, an example being 'women are bad drivers'. So I guess you could say both sides are being oppressed. You also made a case about women being able to claim custody of a child by accusing the man of sexual assault with no evidence.Legality of child custody has been the same for years and years, long before women were on a more or less equal footing, therefore that whole statement you used if anything shows that sexism still exists. If a couple split up society EXPECTS a woman to take up the responsibility of raising the child. The fact that it is hard for men to get custody etc is more reflective of the fact men basically in general obviously don't want it. Otherwise men in their hundreds of thousands would be demanding 'equal rights', wouldn't they? For the offspring paragraph, you said 'Even though that is true women and Feminist like to use pregnancy as an argument saying they're the only ones who can produce offspring so that accusation is not rubbish.'. I would like to point out that you have included opinionated sources and infer that feminists still think they are essential, even though this is just one opinion speaking for all feminists. For your third paragraph, you mentioned 'the pay gap doesn't exist' and provided a YouTube video as evidence. Even if you are right (although I have done some research and I don't think you are, although the figures were highly contradicting), there is still the matter of 'some employers won't hire women in case they become pregnant and have to take maternity leave', which you did not contradict. The reason feminism as a movement exists is clearly because equality has not yet been reached in much the way that anti racism movements exist even though racism has been clearly reduced and as a society we inherently know racism is wrong. Individuals within that society however may not share that view, as long as racism exist people will fight against in and these people will be classified as a group, as long as sexism exists then people will again oppose it, these people are more commonly known as feminists. However don't worry if the pendulum of the battle of the sexists swings too far he can form his own masculanist society. That is the joy of living in a society where people are afforded all kinds of rights. Finally, you seem to be under the impression that feminism isn't that important anymore and isn't really an issue. In places like Western Europe, I agree that we have made a lot of progress and the situation is a lot better, but take somewhere like India, Yemen, Nepal etc. and the situation is a lot worse. Just look at the included source for information why. 1) http://www.buzzfeed.com... 2) http://www.marieclaire.com...