Title: What's the Problem with Feminism?
Headings: What’s the Problem with Feminism?
What’s the Problem with Feminism?
Philosophical Feminism vs Tribal Feminism
“That’s the Trench You’re Willing to Die In?”

Content: But I love individuals.” Once a philosophy goes tribal, its beliefs no longer exist to serve some moral principle, but rather they exist to serve the promotion of the group. 1
In the past few decades, sexual violence has halved, 2 and domestic violence has dropped by an astounding two-thirds. 3 Women recently surpassed men in the workforce in the US 4 and earn almost 60% of all bachelor’s degrees. And despite the constant drumming of 77 cents women earn on the dollar compared to men, when you factor in the fact that men work longer hours, more dangerous jobs, and retire later, the wage gap today is actually only something like 93 to 95 cents for every dollar a man earns. 5
The point here is: a shitload of progress has been made since feminism’s second wave in the 60s and 70s. So much progress has been made that some people (feminists, even!) are becoming concerned that men are actually going to be left behind soon. 6
But the problem is that, like I said, feminism, in the process of enacting all of the progress of the last 50 years, became more than a philosophy—it became an institution.