Whoa-----from "Seventeen" magazine "Are You A Feminist?

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9. I don't understand your need to have every movement cater to everyone else. That's ridiculous.

By definition, feminism is a movement driven to meet the needs of women. Although I would argue it has expanded past that boundary to meet the needs of anyone not willingly complicit in the patriarchy.

That is a rather wide berth by almost any movement's standards. But I will not deny that it is specialized. Movements have to be specialized in order to meet the needs of specific groups.

Consider for a moment computer technology. There are specialists in hardware and specialists in software and specialists in programing and specialists in exotic materials and so on and so forth. Each group adds to the entirety of computer technology but caters to specific subjects that require specialization.

That is the issue here. Feminism is not "exclusive" in that it doesn't seek to push members out. It only asks that the members adhere to a certain set of principles.

Like I said before, I find it offensive that people wish to steal away the identity and accomplishments of feminism and hand them over to something like humanism. That's simply an erasure against feminist history. Feminism contributes to humanism.