I was just thinking about how some people feel justified in criticizing men like Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and a segment of other similar type men, but some people don't feel justified in criticizing guys like Justin Treadou, Barack Obama and a lot of other intellectual men and I was curious what the root of this is, and I thought something profound...
Guys like Trump and Putin seem to be the opposite of feminists.
...So is it actually true, that Trump, being viewed as the opposite of a feminist, is ultimately his greatest weakness as a Western politician..?
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I look at feminism in different ways, depending on what aspect one might be addressing at any given time. For example, feminism might be brought up in terms of legal principles about human rights and equality before the law - anti-discrimination laws, government mandates about equality, etc. All citizens have equal rights.
But then there's aspects of feminism which might be brought up outside of the legal/political/business realm, and more in the realm of social values and private attitudes. Issues such as how to divide up the housework between husbands and wives. Ordinarily, such things would be private matters between individual couples, but people still are inclined to talk about it just the same. Or there might be questions about whether it's okay for a woman to be a stay at home mom, or if they should pursue a career. It's not a question of any actual "law" which requires either, but it's more a matter of personal and societal attitudes.
Some feminism also appears to be directed at men, at least in terms of instructions and guidelines of how we're supposed to conduct ourselves around women. For one, we're not supposed to catcall or anything like that. There may not be any actual law against it (and I'm not sure how it could be enacted anyway), but it's just a general call for men to exercise good manners and etiquette, which seems fair enough on its face. I agree that men should act like civilized gentlemen and not like a bunch of cavemen.
But there are some feminists who are kind of vocal who might go beyond that, so they might get some negative attention - if they come off more like man-haters than egalitarians. Some of them do exist, but I honestly don't believe they represent the majority of feminists. On the other side of that, there are groups of men who seem to think that feminism is some kind of communist plot, and they oppose it on that basis.