Posted by: annoyinginge
Posted by: LeSieg
I absolutely understand. You claim feminism is selective and bigoted as philosophy, and I'm trying to show you why you're wrong. If you feel there's a misunderstanding in what either of us is trying to convey to other, this is as good a chance as any to resolve it. So please, enlighten me.
The problem most people have with self-proclaimed 'feminists' is that a percentage of them are in fact sexist, and are misusing the title "feminist".
Also, by that definition, there is a problem. In cases where men are discriminated against, your definition of feminism would not have a problem with the situation.For the first point, see my above post.
For the second, you're right that it isn't necessarily the role of the feminist to intervene on the behalf of men when issues of sexism prevent them from equal treatment. But any feminist who truly believes in gender equality for women is by the nature of that belief sympathetic towards equality for men. The funny thing about equality is that it's not exclusive.
To relate this back to the original post, those insurance premiums should have been based on driving records and measures of anticipation that are not discriminatory. So if a group of people were causing more damage than another in a certain area, then it would make sense to charge more. If the basis of charging more is based on discriminatory explanations alone, then it is wrong. It's a tricky subject when trying to categorize people and their behaviors by numbers. You do lose a certain element of the argument in it, so I'm sympathetic to companies that really were trying to make it equal and profitable at the same time.