I would make the argument that the difference between A and B is not “dialing down the feminism”, but more about the general demeanor/civility/methods. You can address the issues of B without blaming it on feminism.
If you take two people who are vegan. A will sit down and talk to you about the reasons behind their choice to be vegan, and try to convince you to give veganism a try or even just reduce your meat consumption and supplement it with vegan meals. And B will get in your face and yell at you about what a horrible monster you are for eating animal products. I wouldn’t say that B is “more vegan” than A. And I wouldn’t say that the problem with B is that they’re too vegan. The issue is with how they treat others.
You can address the issues of B without blaming it on feminism.
I wouldn’t ‘blame it on feminism’, but the ideology being the motivator for the behavior is why it makes sense to me that refraining from it would ‘qualify’ as ‘dialing down the feminism’.
Does that make sense?
If you take two people who are vegan. A will sit down and talk to you about the reasons behind their choice to be vegan, and try to convince you to give veganism a try or even just reduce your meat consumption and supplement it with vegan meals. And B will get in your face and yell at you about what a horrible monster you are for eating animal products. I wouldn’t say that B is “more vegan” than A. And I wouldn’t say that the problem with B is that they’re too vegan.
But if someone (call them C lol) told B to ‘dial down the veganism’ in response to that behavior, I think the average/typical person within earshot of the exchange would obviously understand what’s being communicated, and I don’t think they’d be thinking C is blaming veganism itself, just criticizing B’s behavior in the name of that ideology.
I would make the argument that the difference between A and B is not “dialing down the feminism”, but more about the general demeanor/civility/methods. You can address the issues of B without blaming it on feminism.
If you take two people who are vegan. A will sit down and talk to you about the reasons behind their choice to be vegan, and try to convince you to give veganism a try or even just reduce your meat consumption and supplement it with vegan meals. And B will get in your face and yell at you about what a horrible monster you are for eating animal products. I wouldn’t say that B is “more vegan” than A. And I wouldn’t say that the problem with B is that they’re too vegan. The issue is with how they treat others.
I wouldn’t ‘blame it on feminism’, but the ideology being the motivator for the behavior is why it makes sense to me that refraining from it would ‘qualify’ as ‘dialing down the feminism’.
Does that make sense?
But if someone (call them C lol) told B to ‘dial down the veganism’ in response to that behavior, I think the average/typical person within earshot of the exchange would obviously understand what’s being communicated, and I don’t think they’d be thinking C is blaming veganism itself, just criticizing B’s behavior in the name of that ideology.