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01-09-2013, 03:11 PM
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That the focus is narrow doesn't seem to me to be a valid criticism. It's fine to have a specific focus, but actively working towards a particular goal doesn't mean you don't care about others. Societies as a whole can simultaneously progress in a lot of issues at once, but the individuals active in that process usually focus on one issue each. Which is fine, it takes a lot of work. It's okay to have one fight at a time. Nor do we have focus all of our efforts on one issue at a time and process through them one by one according to someone's hierarchy of necessity. Society can do more than one thing.

As it happens though, I hardly think that focusing on the issues endemic to exactly half of the human race can be deemed to be "narrow" in any way. When men discuss feminism from both sides we have an peculiar habit of treating women like some kind of minority group.
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