Faculty in the humanities are grappling with a changing educational landscape as debates arise regarding student preparation and nationwide headlines question students’ abilities to read longer texts.

Some faculty across the humanities report cutting down the amount of reading they assign to students, though others have found that students are keeping up with a standard workload the same way they would have years ago. 

Carlos Noreña, a UC Berkeley history professor specializing in ancient history, said the amount of reading he could comfortably assign while expecting students to read a “substantial” portion of it has dropped over the past 20 years at UC Berkeley. 

I've seen a lot of self-described right-wing or anti-woke individuals on YouTube say that the Barbie movie is both feminist and anti-male. Do they believe that feminism is an inherently anti-male concept that promotes the idea that women are superior to males and that feminists are just women who want to replace the patriarchy with a matriarchy?

If feminism is either about gender equality or about the equality of rights between men and women, then it's impossible for a movie to be both feminist and anti-male. If a movie is anti-male, then it's saying that women should have more rights or superior rights to men, if one believes that feminism is equality of opportunity between the 2 sexes or 2 genders, then it would be impossible to conclude that a movie could be both anti-male and feminist.

How can a feminist movie, by definition, simultaneously propose that women should have equal legal rights to men and that women should have more rights or superior rights to women? Isn't this an obvious logical contradiction? The only way I can make sense of this kind of thinking is to conclude that right-wing people have a very different definition of feminism that makes it possible for a movie to be simultaneously feminist and anti-male.

It could also be the case that right-wing people like to engage in doublethink when describing movies they call feminist as anti-male movies.

I don't know if equality of opportunity necessarily requires equality before the law, but anyone is welcome to correct me if I'm wrong.

I've even read a few Black Pill incel books and listened to some audiobooks from Rollo Tomasi, the author of The Rational Male. But I still can't figure out what exactly the right-wing thinks feminism is about and how they define feminism. I feel that they always somehow dance around the issue of what feminism is actually about.

I also don't understand what self-described anti-feminists think feminism is about. Some people don't call themselves anti-feminist but describe themselves as anti-woke.

Some anti-woke people are right-wing, and my question is about what the full spectrum of right-wing beliefs about feminism is.

Are there various competing right-wing definitions of feminism or is there a monolithic definition of feminism that the full spectrum of right-wing individuals subscribe to?

Is there a logical reason why right-wing people cannot conclude that feminism is about equality of rights between men and women? If all the waves of feminism were about women's legal rights, then wouldn't it be logical to conclude that feminism is about equality of legal rights between the two sexes or two genders, depending on whether one believes in trans rights?

Wikipedia's summary of 1st and 2nd waves of feminism make feminism sound like it's about equality of legal rights and the 3rd and 4th waves of feminism on Wikipedia make feminism sound like it's about equality of outcome, gender parity, or gender equality. Why don't conservatives conclude that feminism is either about equality of legal rights or gender equality or both?

Do some conservatives often read about the different waves of feminism and conclude that women's rights activism = feminism? Could anyone cite some examples of right-wing people critiquing the various waves of feminism?

NB: I've edited this post to better reflect different views on what the feminist movement is about currently and historically. I've also edited this post to reflect the fact that lots of self-described left-wing people are anti-woke. Many people have pointed out that both self-described left-wing and right-wing people are opposed to feminism, but I cannot change the title of my post.

Thanks for reading.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/targeted-parenting/202412/maybe-youre-not-an-introvert-maybe-its-a-trauma-response

https://dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories/drug-overdose-deaths-effect-on-children/

This USC Dornsife study reveals that by 2019, 1.4 million U.S. children had lost a family member to a drug overdose. The research shows that children aged 10 and older were three times more likely to experience this loss than younger kids though younger children are increasingly affected in recent years.

A recent survey showing that 28% of Gen Z identifies as LGBT made headlines. The public reaction has been largely one of disbelief and ridicule. The most common explanation offered by skeptics for how nearly 1 in 3 young people could identify as LGBT is “social contagion” — that they are jumping onto a bandwagon for social clout as part of some kind of craze. As someone who has been professionally covering LGBT issues for several years, I have become steeped in the data. This piece dives into the broader data landscape that paints the rise in LGBT identification in a whole new light.

https://americandreaming.substack.com/p/lgbt-social-contagion-a-failed-hypothesis