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The official definition for feminism is "the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities."

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It depends entirely on the advocate. The problem is that there is not just one feminist movement or one set of definitions for what feminism is.

On the one hand, there is the feminism which asserts that both sexes should be equal in terms of rights and social responsibilities. There are branches of feminism that deal with the oppression and privileges that accompany imbalanced societies and seek to remedy the inadequacies primarily for women's benefits. These latter groups are also interested in fundamentally changing societal norms in the media and general society.

Unfortunately, rather than delineate these two very different understandings of what feminism is, supporters and enemies of feminism choose to pretend that feminism can only be one of those two definitions and then creates a strawman to knock down an opponent's argument.

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