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Comment author: Multiheaded 04 December 2012 12:48:05AM *  13 points [-]

Perhaps instead of being "(sane) feminist" or "(sane) MRA", the sane gender-issues people should all just call themselves "Gender Egalitarians".

Unfortunately, this label already seems to be undergoing the same connotation creep that quickly happened to "Race realism" and is about to happen to "Human Biodiversity". Both of those are - justly or not - suspected to be cover labels that racists adopted when the old "Scientific Racism" became disreputable, so now many people with "mainstream" views on racial differences equate the three.

From what I've read of MRA discussions, some of them are definitely trying to trade the label for "Gender Egalitarianism", which they position as neutral or hostile to all kinds of feminism - so, as dumb and ridiculous as this might be, the words "gender egalitarian" might acquire a connotation of "feminist-hater", or simply "misogynist".

(Great post btw!)

Comment author: [deleted] 05 December 2012 12:16:45AM 2 points [-]

Do you have any links? None of the first few Google hits for "gender egalitarianism", at a first glance, look like that.

Comment author: [deleted] 04 December 2012 02:07:56PM *  2 points [-]

I'd go with “anti-sexism”. No, wait... That might sound like I'm in favour of sexual abstinence. “Anti-genderism”?

(Belated edit: looks like the word we're looking for is “sex-blindness”.)

Comment author: MugaSofer 04 December 2012 02:12:43PM 3 points [-]

That sounds like you're against gender.

Comment author: [deleted] 05 December 2012 12:17:51AM 3 points [-]

(For certain values of "gender", that's not terribly far from truth.)