Word: equalitarian
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...common relationships, asserting the dignity and nobility of every member of society. Service is an urge which ought to hope for its own irrelevance, for if a truly equal society ever comes about, service will become happily obsolescent. We must thus act in the service of an equalitarian society, rather than in the service of an aristocratic charity to a pitied underclass...
...broader factual and semantic problem in her article is that she doesn’t seem even to understand what the word feminism means. If she did the most elementary research, she would know that there are equalitarian feminists as well as so-called difference feminists, and that conflating the two is highly inaccurate. The fact of the matter is, many equalitarian feminists oppose “women-only” groups, arguing (as Rubins does) that they actually create negative gender-based distinctions. A difference feminist—who thinks men and women are different, but equally important...