Might help also to describe what you think feminism is, since it’s one of those terms that is overloaded.

I once had a physical therapist tell me she wasn’t a feminist because she thought women couldn’t be as physically capable as men when serving as soldiers, and seemed to believe feminism requires treating women exactly like men.

I told her I was a feminist because I believe in equal rights for men and women, an idea she did not seem so opposed to.

  • DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone
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    11 days ago

    For each of those examples women were disadvantaged and men were advantaged. So they both experienced inequality.

    • dandelion (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
      5·
      11 days ago

      Your original question was to ask how women deal with more inequality than men.

      Most people use “inequality” to refer to the short end of the stick in the dynamic - when Ada talks about women experiencing more inequality, she means women are more disadvantaged.

      So it seems like your question to me was to ask how women are disadvantaged compared to men, but your response shifts the meaning of “inequality” so that you were originally asking … what, exactly?

      • DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone
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        11 days ago

        Yeah sorry, I meant inequality is non directional. It might seem like I’m being pedantic with language. But I was unsure if you meant that men’s experience was more homogenous than women, so women experience more inequality even within their gender. Which I don’t think it’s the case. There are more male billionaires and CEOs, but also more male homelessness and suicide.