Apparently this is an unpopular opinion among feminists. If feminism is about equality for everyone, it needs to address that. As an example, LGBTQ+ was extended many times to cover everyone in the community, and that’s the right thing to do. There isn’t just L and everyone repeats “Oh! Lesbians are for rights for everyone, no need to update that”
I don’t know what the new name should be, but it should cover gender equality for everyone.
That’s quite a stretch, I’m not saying that at all.
All Lives Matter was something that was intended well - but missed the point completely. While Bernie originally said it trying to say that all lives should matter, it missed the point because the movement was specifically saying that black lives matter - because all too often people forget that black lives do in fact matter. In the opposite, we don’t need all lives matter because society as a whole already knows that white lives matter - what they were fighting for was that black lives also matter.
You’re feminism argument I feel is trying to argue the same thing. Society already knows men should have rights and equality. That’s not the point of the feminism argument. Feminism is that women specifically deserve those things.
Saying feminism should be more about all equality is the same as saying all lives matter - it may be well intentioned, but it minimizes the actual issues they are facing. We know that men and women should be equal, but men have all of society and thousands of years of history on their side already, women can have feminism on their side. Men have enough already fighting for them.
Think of it by adding a “too” or “also”. Black lives also matter. Women deserve equality too. It’s because they’re the outside groups.