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Feminism is irrelevant, unjust and flawed. It should be stopped.

If I understand your position correctly, (and I may not, so tell me if the situation is different) you believe that the equality of men and women is logical and right. However, you think feminists nowadays have no leg to stand on (equality with men has been achieved) and thus are left to resort to misandry and exaggerating their "suffering" (placing the blame on men). I am not going to use outdated and false arguments about the wage gap and male dominance in the workplace to try to prove that women and men are not totally equal. Women have more equality today than they have ever had in history, and I in no way am trying to say that we have anything near resembling the struggles for equality of the past. One thing that I feel many feminists think is lacking is gender respect. Please don't misunderstand me, there are huge quantities of men who treat women fairly and respectfully. However, there are also many who hold an unfair bias towards women. I see it in my school, in the media, in day-to-day interactions. It is the assumption that, because a person is female, they must therefore be inferior. Do you want examples? School: Refusal to accept girls onto a recess sports game. Teasing. I know, "they're just kids," right? But isn't that kind of indicative as to what type of people those kids will grow up to be? Media: Portrayal of women in advertising. Relative lack of positive role models in entertainment. Day-to-day: Assumption a male serviceperson is more capable than a female one. I have seen all these things time and time again. Once again, don't misunderstand me. This problem is two-sided. Women can be jerks. And they are! I am fully aware of the hordes of women who use the label of feminism as a feeble excuse to persecute men for what they falsely perceive as sexism. This is wrong. I cannot stress this enough. Lumping all men into an imaginary cesspool of ignorance and chauvinism is wrong. There are several points on which I agree with you: feminism is flawed, just like everything, and the mainstream media is full of misandry. I do not condone misandry, nor do I pretend that men and women are greatly or even moderately unequal in politics, economics, and society today. Not in most countries, at least. But feminism's noble ideals, the ideals that men and women should be considered equal and treated that way, (ideals with which we both agree, I believe) do not change because of the actions and words of a group of man-hating fools. To put it in simpler terms, just because someone claims a label doesn't mean that it applies to them. Like the oft-used argument that "Hitler was a Christian," that logic is incorrect. Would a follower of the Judeo-Christian God commit an atrocious genocide against the Chosen People? No. Similarly, would people who believe that men and women deserve equality berate and despise the entirety of one gender for the oppressive actions of a few? No. Feminism is associated with hatred of all males, but I, and many others, both men and women, know that is not what it stands for. It is simply the goal for equality. Men respecting women and women respecting men. I hope one day misandry and misogyny will be flushed into the metaphorical sewers of forgotten idiocy and we will be left with the situation that should have always been: total respect and equality for all.