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Changing minds - YesYourNigel - Jun 18 2025
Curious to hear if anyone has had luck changing minds when it comes to the subjects covered under radical feminism. How do you get through to women (and maybe men, if such a thing is even possible) and make them understand just how harmful the patriarchy is for them?
I find most people function according to extremely emotional and superficial ideas and, while we're all subject to emotional biases to some degree, it just feels like most people don't even make the flimsiest attempt to examine their own beliefs, and blindly rely on authority or celebrities to tell them what to think. "You can't argue someone out of a position they didn't argue themselves into". So whenever I try to argue with people, usually by asking questions and poking holes in their own reasoning, they turn into angry pissbabies. And these are for some very basic feminist ideas, let alone anything more controversial.
I wonder if radical feminism can ever even make gains among these people. Because women automatically have less authority, I don't see them ever getting enough of it to truly make a feminist statement, beyond the most superficial, toothless liberal feminist pleas (i.e. you don't have to force us into objectification, we're actually eager to do it of our own accord!).