Can you be a feminist and believe in equal rights for men and women?

"Can you be a feminist and believe in equal rights for men and women?"

If you are a follower of the modern day feminist movement in any of the first world Western nations where we already have equal Rights enshrined into law, then the simple answer is NO. Equal Rights was the originally stated goals of the Women's Rights Activists (now renamed as First Wave Feminists). We have achieved that a long time ago.

Changing the goal posts to the feminist revised definition of "equality" is a post Second Wave phenomenon. Of course, actual "equality" means:

--the state of being equal, especially in status, rights, and opportunities:--

Considering women have equal Rights and Opportunities guaranteed by law, then the only assumption can be that feminists want equal status to "men". But WHICH MEN??

Every time feminists speak about men, you might be mistaken for believing that all men are elite class, privileged 1-percenters ... or international bankers or CEO's. The reality is that most men are pretty average, working class dudes. And even they don't have equality to the rich, elite or upper class men (or women for that matter). So why would feminists be insisting that only women should be equal in status to the highest status males when most men do not have that kind of equality??

Feminists need to explain that to us in simple language, that does not veer off into nonsense cultural M@rxist, social entering language that feeds us gibberish "feminist theory" like "patriarchy theory" or "toxic masculinity" or any other such rubbish.

And it's hilarious to read the completely condescending feminist answer here that claims that women have not achieve equality .... and berates the users here as children or uneducated adults. This is the kind of answer we have come to expect from feminists, since they cannot explain their position in general terms without either veering off into feminist double-speak, or just shaming anyone who doesn't just accept their rubbish ideology.

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Yes being a feminist means believing men and women to be equals, and pushing for the necessary changes in order for men and women to actually receive equal or equitable respect and consideration under the law, economically, and socially.

If you think equality has been achieved, you are sorely mistaken. Perhaps you are a young child, and so you haven't actually learned all the ways that racism and sexism play unpleasant roles in our lives. Or maybe you are too young and ignorant to know the way things *are* is not necessarily how things *should* be, nor do you have the ability to consider how things could change in order to be equal/equitable. Going to school will help you (if you are American, you will have to work a bit harder).

No. Wanting special "women's rights" contradicts equality.

Equal MEANS for men and women.

You can't have one sided equality because then it isn't equality. I can't even begin to understand how so many people can't see that.