Essay on Toxic Feminism 2022

Running head: TOXIC FEMINISM
Toxic Feminism
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TOXIC FEMINISM
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Toxic Feminism
Feminism was originally intended to bring to an end gender discrimination and ensure
that women are given equal opportunities with men. While those intentions were good and
justifiable, there has arose some modern-day feminism that could be regarded as toxic. This is
the kind of feminism that does not care about discrimination. All that matters to supporters of
this kind of feminism is that women are not discriminated. It does not care whether or not
men are discriminated or not. Due to the fact that this feminism does not care about the
oppression of males, then it must be a toxic feminism (Toxic Feminism, 2019). Healthy
feminism would be concerned with ensuring that there is equality for all. Toxic feminism is
not valid since it is subjective and assumes that all women are good while all men are bad.
Toxic feminism assumes that all females are good and that all males are bad.
Therefore, without considering the unique attributes of every person, this kind of feminism
suggests that there is nothing good that can come out of a male. It is not only wrong but
untenable to categorize all people under one blanket. There is only one conclusion that be
made of such kind of feminism, that is, it is false and ill-informed.
One of these groups of feminists suggest that all females who have heterosexual
partners should forego all intimate relations with the aim of achieving what is referred to as
‘political lesbianism.’ Further, this group suggests that all females can and should be lesbians.
This kind of advocacy is made in a bid to show that men are evil/ bad and they should never
be trusted. It is important to note the groups of men that exists according to this feminism.
Such groups are only 3, that is, rapists, sexual harassers and potential rapists and harassers.
These feminists avoid criminating men on biological terms for they would want to believe
that women are not biologically limited in any way.