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In reply to the discussion: Study: Everyone hates environmentalists and feminists [View all]davidn3600
(6,342 posts)Only 20% of Americans call themselves feminists....only 1/3rd of the Democratic party.
Yet, 82% of Americans say they support equal rights between men and women.
http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/tabs_gender_0411122013.pdf
So most people support equal rights, but they don't support feminism. That's pretty odd...
Feminism needs to change its public relations image. Most people do seem to view it as a man-hating and women-entitlement movement. Something has to be done to change the perception. Otherwise the divide will prevent any real social progress with gender issues going forward.
Feminism needs to get out of this men vs women crap. This needs to become a movement for equality. The vast majority of Americans support equality of the genders. But obviously the vast majority of Americans also don't think the current feminist movement is in favor of gender equality.