# Anti-Feminism **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [July 17, 2015, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-feminism/725390 "2015-07-17T06:05:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 635
**Author:** ![Jack\_of\_Words](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f6c823/32.png) [@Jack\_of\_Words](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_of_Words)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-feminism/725390/635 "2015-07-29T22:32:24Z")
> [@Banquet\_Bear](#): > > …well obviously not. If you truly believe that Feminism is an equine quadruped, it quacks and lays eggs, then no, don’t be a feminist. I see no compelling reason why anyone should try to convince you. > > See? That wasn’t very hard at all. And it would be silly for anyone else to waste their time trying to convince you to be a feminist as well, so you can stop asking now. Well it was more in the manner of a [metaphor](http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/metaphor?s=t), but again, I may have overestimated my audience. There are clues to it being a metaphor, not least my having previously explained literally what I think feminism is, and my never having mentioned ducks, horses, eggs or legs in this thread prior to that metaphor (although I accept that all that would also have whooshed past anyone who declined to read what I had read…but chose to argue anyway. Isn’t the internet fun :)) And no, it wasn’t hard at all. Whoever suggested otherwise? I expect it _would_ be silly for someone who takes a metaphor as literal to try to convince me of anything, but I’m still open to persuasion. If it’s not too hard… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-feminism/725390)._