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When conversation calls for it, I usually tell people the following.... and this is directed at the thread: feminism is one of the most misconstrued ideas of the 20th--and now 21st--century.
It is a complex and often convoluted idea that has more than one vein, like many other major ideas and movements. And, of course, people tend to focus on or only hear about the more controversial or sensational aspects, rather than the ones that would be considered essential or more complex yet important.
And so we move forward, many of us still thinking that feminism has won and should finally fade away, or that men cannot be feminists.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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