Equalism
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Equalism is a name often given to forms of egalitarianism (advocacy of equality) concerned with issues of gender or race. Thus, equalism is another name for gender egalitarianism, sexual egalitarianism and/or racial egalitarianism.
The term is used by people of many disjointed political philosophies developed separately by political activists. This includes people who support gender-blind policies in response to the failings they saw in certain branches of Feminism, as well as people who support colour-blind policies in response to what they see as the discriminatory elements of Affirmative Action.
Central to equalism is the belief that society must be colour-blind and sex/gender-blind.
Gender Equality
Equalists generally believe that most branches of feminism has abandoned notions of equality, and instead focuses only on females's rights, to the exclusion of the rights of other sexes/genders. Equalists seek to promote the rights of females, males, and everything in between.
"Gender equity", "gender equality", "sexual equality", or gender egalitarianism is the belief in the equality of the gender or the sexes. Many followers of this philosophy would like to see this term come to replace “feminism” or “masculism,” when used to describe a belief in basic equal rights and opportunities for members of both sexes within legal, social, or corporate establishments. They strive for ultimate fairness, and seek cooperative solutions so as to make things better for both males, females and everything in between. While they may share a number of critiques and analyses with self-described feminists and/or masculists, they feel that “egalitarianism” is a better word for a belief in equality than any word that focuses on one of the genders.
Racial Equality
Equalists often differ with mainstream leftists in condemning alleged discriminatory elements of Affirmative Action as well as elements of Substantial Equality aiming at equality of outcome.
See also
- Equity
- Equality
- Egalitarianism
- Racial equality
Differing Viewpoints
External links
- [The Gender Issues Zine] A gender-egalitarian publication (this link appears to be dead 2005-12-22)
- [Feminist4Fathers - "Equal means equal. How hard is that to understand?"]
- [Shared Parenting Works]
- [Vision 4 Children ... "Now is the time and we are the people."]
- [The Post (Liberal) Feminist Condition]
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