^ I love that you're opinionated.
Don't use that as an excuse to rampantly leapfrog-post.
Nobody likes that.
As far as I saw it, Feminism related to elevation of females, and Chauvinism related to the elevation of males.
There is actually a word that is the opposite of Chauvinism and it isn't feminism but I can never remember the word. Chauvinism is about the clear supperiority of males.
Feminism can be anywhere from women being supperior to being equals.
Actually you're wrong. Feminism is actually related to, elevating women, yes.
Chauvinism is actually 'a blind bias towards a certain party'. It's just taken on the connotations of being entirely related to men now.
You may be thinking of Misogyny, which is just a hatred of women.
Isn't it funny that there isn't actually a word for people who want the elevation of men in society.
With that in mind, I say that I am an anti-feminist.
It is true that women were victimized in the past. But I feel that now, with the past and current changes that are happening, women have just as many rights as men do (Regarding, of course, first world countries). Don't believe me? Ask the Australian Prime Minister.
However, that in mind, in developing countries, and countries with religion-based laws, there is definitely a lack of women's rights. Men, as a whole, are stronger and faster than women, and also, again on average, have a vastly lower sense of empathy. That combination means that rape is almost certainly going to occur in places of lawlessness. Civility is unfortunately hard to come by. However, people are making efforts to fix this, and I believe that we have no right to decree how another country governs its own people. If it's inhumane enough, there would be a revolution, and then first world countries would have the right to meddle in their affairs.
My points here are all pretty fuzzy and badly worded, but that's what I feel. I'm not apathetic about gender-equality, i just feel that in places like Australia, America and the UK, there's no real threat of forced female subservience (unless it's SSC). I'm not sure about other first world countries, as I'm not geographically knowledgeable, but I assume that it isn't a problem there either.