No, that's basic capitalism. The most classic right wing reply to feminist complaints about "wage equality" is "if i could just pay women less for doing the same job just as well, as a greedy capitalist i'd hire only women, i would outcompete everyone on employee salary costs, and i would make heaps of money ; and then the other greedy capitalist next door would come to my cheap all female workforce and tell them he will pay them a bit more, because that would still be a good deal, and then the same would happen to him, until they got paid what they are worth according to the market". Beyond that its feminism, which it does plenty of, usually involving complaints about statistical inequalities, or inequalities stemming from not exactly the same characteristics of doing the job.
Until recently (roughly four/five decades), there was a massive wage-gap in the West for women doing the same jobs as men -- when they could get such jobs. Activism and campaigning from feminists actually helped remove that gap so that it became part of normal culture, and by extension the capitalism that helps run Western society. It became the norm.
So basically outsourced union activity, except with bonus discrimination against men. After all, men's office dress codes don't lack comfort issues either, but who gives a fuck about men.
No -- there are dress codes in offices that should be enforced, such as a work-shirt, trousers instead of jeans and tracksuits, non-esoteric hair colours, et cetera, so long as it looks smart and professional. A dress code for a woman that they feel uncomfortable with, such as it being
mandatory to wear skirts and heels instead of it being their
choice to instead of trousers and ordinary work shoes? Yeah, that should be destroyed.
I would say the same thing about a man's dress code if men were forced to wear cuff-links or clown shoes.
That's general culture, and in hindsight we know there are issues that no one of the feminist side, even the earlier, more moderate waves, wants to address. Like half the education glorified there being useless degrees or downright negative value, at worst being poorly camouflaged marxist indoctrination, or the fact that as the whole west's demographics show, *someone* has to have the babies, not necessarily the red herring of 8 per women, but how about at least moderate 2.5, because for obvious biological reasons that are controversial to the T lobby, it can't be the men.
It became general culture because it was made into general culture, and rightfully so. Being educated regardless of gender is not the cause of societal rot -- what is
done with that education is, such as society demanding that McDonald's managers have a degree (yes, that's a thing, sadly enough).
Frankly put, society and the legal system didn't adapt and screwed the pooch.
There's also a debate going on from various parties that while equality is a good goal/thing, there may be a grain of truth in that a lot of women, by nature, are like goddamn children and think only of the moment, not the long-term/consequences of their actions, like having an affair because their lady parts tingle around someone despite having a husband and family. Despite how oppressed women were in the past in society and cultural norms compared to modern Western civilization, they worked inside of the system set up by patriarchal societies (such as the Romans, the Greeks) and basically held a lot of power... and society
worked.
As a long-term consequence of feminism and the more recent, toxic "feminism" that has become dominant, it's eroded society and culture like an acid that eats away at the container meant to keep it all together. While common-sense and sanity kept this shit in check for decades and kept a status quo that benefited everyone (women could be feminine yet have all the rights and opportunities men have, as is the norm in society until recently/as a current baseline), it's recently broken out and began melting everything from the inside out.
People with sanity, like us, run off that baseline, as that is what society is. "Feminism" wants to change that baseline into the perversions they frequently shriek.
I can say I'm a feminist, within reason. I think a lot of us here are.
I do think there are jobs women shouldn't do on practical grounds, like being front-line soldiers, certain positions in the military, fire-fighters, due to physical strength issues (men will always be stronger than women. It's just our biology) and common-sense logic, like men not being raped half-to-death if they're captured as a prisoner of war by insurgents or guerrillas.
I believe women should have the same educational opportunities as men: grade school/preschool, elementary schools/primary schools, middle-schools and high-schools, college and universities, et cetera.
I believe women should be able to own property the same as men -- if they buy a house, they own that house.
See? The above is normal in society now. Thinking otherwise makes you a kooky outlier.
...Actually, it could be argued that the above in no-longer feminism
because it's now normal, but I digress.
The shit "feminism" spouts off? Yeah, that's toxic insanity. To people decades or even centuries back, the above values must have been insanity to them as "feminism" is to us. But, unlike the above, "feminism" has gone a full three-sixty to the opposite side, basically saying the same sort of shit that oppressed women as the norm back then but now for men.
Misandry replaced misogyny.
As i mentioned, they still think of those issues, and want plenty more in all the aforementioned areas too.
Feminism has always been fairly toxic (see the original Suffragettes), even if the older generations' goals were somewhat noble -- not treating women like property, allowing them to vote, et cetera -- but modern day "feminism" is about superiority, not equality. "Feminism" has become what people think of feminism as it's an evolution of it, even if feminist (not "feminist") goals, at their core, are part of normal society now.
That stuff is the more recent and extreme "tip of the iceberg". But the current day feminism still puts a lot of attention to, for example, the "wage equality" cause, you can hear of it all the time (like the recent hooplas about it in BBC, or in women's sports in USA), of course with plenty of ignorant or malicious omission of relevant facts. The very presence of this stuff in legal system is a consequence of earlier feminism installing itself too well in the mainstream culture and academic circles used to advise legislators.
It's recent as in it's been slowly building up to what we're seeing in the last decade, decade-and-a-half, but it was either kept in check by common-sense and sanity or it was a boil that had yet to come to a head as it has now. Feminism and equality are not bad things: "Feminism" and
superiority are.
Feminism has become "feminism", even if the former's goals/thinking have become the norm in Western society. The former is fine: The latter is toxic and needs to be stamped out and eradicated.
I am a heterosexual, white man: According to a "feminism", I am the Devil incarnate, a rapist waiting to happen
because I have a penis, and I oppress anyone with a natural vagina by my mere existence. They're misandrists. Feminists be like "oh, you're not a dick towards someone because they're a woman? Cool, cool".
There are feminists and there are "feminists": Despite the latter forming out of and evolving from the former, never confuse the two, even if the former always had toxicity that the latter has now at critical mass.
