From Liberal Feminist to Non-Feminist: How I Evolved

When I was a teenager, I identified as a liberal feminist. I proudly asserted that feminism was akin to common sense, and that supporting gender equality was the same as supporting feminism. Through engaging with other Feminists, being involved in my school's Feminist society, and doing my own research, I came to realise that Feminism is actually rather extreme, contradictory, and in many ways, misandric.

Since the age of eighteen, I have stopped calling myself a feminist. My initial assertion was 'feminism used to be good but is now bad' has now shifted to 'Feminism was never a good thing.' A lot of people assume that Feminism is about gender equality or equal rights for women (it isn't) or that Feminism started with the Suffragettes (it didn't).

Whenever I discuss Feminism on this channel (or in general), I am always specifically referring to post-1960s Anglophonic Feminism that has its roots in cultural Marxism. This form of Feminism was pioneered by Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem, and was about a small group of left-wing women wanting to impose a specific agenda onto the rest of society. It pushed the narrative that women are, and always have been, oppressed, that all gender roles are socially constructed as a way to oppress women, that being a wife and mother is oppressive, and other nonsense. The Suffragettes and other so-called 'protofeminist' women had no affiliation with the later, contemporary post-1960s Anglophonic Feminism that we are still seeing today.

And thus, in the present day and having done a lot of research, I do not believe that Feminism was responsible for the right to vote (because women's suffrage is not the same as Feminism), the contraceptive pill (that was invented by scientists), safe and legal abortions (this was about preventing backstreet abortions and is mainly opposed by religious zealots), equal pay (egalitarianism is not the same as Feminism), and so on. Feminism is not responsible for women having careers or being able to make decisions. Feminism tears women down instead of building us up. I have nothing to thank Feminism for, and do not owe Feminism anything.

As a modern, liberal, humanist woman, I am proud to call myself an anti-Feminist, or in less antagonistic terms, a Non-Feminist Gal.

Some articles I have written on Feminism:

➤ https://feministfallacy.com/2023/02/15/the-lies-of-feminism/
➤ https://feministfallacy.com/2021/11/23/why-i-am-not-a-feminist/
➤ https://feministfallacy.com/2022/05/09/did-feminism-sexually-liberate-women/
➤ https://www.wespeakfreely.org/2019/09/20/dont-white-feminists-campaign-female-genital-mutilation/