What is a feminist?

Well, it's different because the very need to assert women's rights to all those basic things implies a structural analysis of society according to which women have been systematically denied them, due to power imbalances between the sexes and to ideologies that have evolved to maintain that power imbalance, (such as confining ideas about gender). That power analysis (although it may well take different forms between different feminists) is at the core of feminism.

My type of feminism is basically in any given situation is how does this impact on women..
Even equality can impact differently.

Well of course, it is about wanting fairness and equality. But it is about understanding that the world is not built in a way that means fairness and equality are just going to happen. The patriarchy exists and the world systemically, still, functions in a way that oppresses, restricts, hurts or disadvantages women and girls. Feminism wants to tackle the ways in which that happens. So it is about wanting fairness and equality, but looking at those ideals specifically through a lens which asks, what are the barriers that currently stop it existing for women and girls, and what needs to happen to change that?

Anything after the Second Wave is erosion and dilution, including Caitlin Moran's lazy soundbite. Feminism is about infinitely more than control over one's own vagina; if that were true Bonnie Blue would be one.

OP, there are different definitions of feminism (eg radical feminist, liberal feminist). You don't have to agree with all other feminists about all issues. But fundamentally it's about equality between men and women. It's different IMO to just believing in fairness and equality, because it involves accepting that women are still currently not treated equally (the gender pay gap etc) - a non feminist who believes in equality in general might try to argue that women already have equality.

I know, and I think she’s wrong about that. But it’s still a pretty good rule of thumb.

Unfortunately Caitlin now thinks men can also have a vagina.

I rather liked Caitlin Moran’s answer in her first book: put your hand in your pants - do you have a vagina? Do you think you should be in charge of it?
Congratulations, you’re a feminist.

I think a feminist is a bit like a woman - claiming to be one means nothing, you either are or you aren't.

I think a feminist is a woman who supports / fights for women's rights. In my view KJK is 100% feminist, even though she denies it, whereas anyone seeking to normalize porn or prostitution or who claims men can be women is 100% unfeminist however much they claim to be one.

Download the AI chat Claude and ask any questions there. Sounds like you need it.

Do you want women to have equal rights and status to men, worldwide, and for women and girls not to face systemic discrimination on the grounds of being female? Do you want women and girls to have equal access to education, healthcare, job opportunities, promotion? Do you understand why women need single-sex spaces? If so, congratulations. You are a feminist.