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This will be a long post and english is not my first language so excuse me in advance if something is written in a weird way.

I see a lot of people on this sub say things like "modern feminism is..", "feminism has become x..", "feminism doesn't care about men because..", and I think all this kind of comments are either sexist people trying to rationalise their sexism and discredit feminism, or people who genuinely wants good for both sexes and are misguided by mainly social media, that amplifies whatever keeps us more engaged, and that means also ignorant content that makes us feel anger.

First of all, as any movement through history feminism is not a single ideology. All ideologies, be it religion like christianity, economic ideologies like communism and socialism, they are all composed of different people that have all a slightly different ideas of what their ideology means and what should change in the world.
Every movement will have people that are more radicals, people who are purists, people who are moderates, people who are pragmatic etc.
This means that saying "feminism hates men" is untrue, as the more correct version is "some feminists hate men".

Secondly, people can tell themselves (and others) that they adhere to a movement, even if they don't follow the principles of said movement. This is very apparent in religion, where lots of people call themselves christian while acting with complete disregard of the doctrine. Whatever the reason a person might do this (sense of moral superiority, masking an insecurity, appealing to the masses etc) doesn't really matter, as critical thinking means also being able to recognise such pattern, and separate the action of the person, from the movement they said to adhere to.
If a person murdered another person and stole their stuff while calling themselves christian, no intelligent person would ever say "christianity is dangerous, because christians kill and steal too".

Thirdly, there is always a significant gap between the people behind the theory of a movement, and the masses that follows it. If you read any feminist theory book written by a person with some basic qualification to write said book, you will never find phrases like "men are dangerous", "not all man but always a man", "I would choose the bear" written in it. Those is the social media discourse, and if you base your idea of a movement on what social media shows you, please get off the internet and reconnect with actual people. Social media are BY DESIGN built to cause shock, ragebait, trends, and whatever will get your attention. The amount of time spent by their users it's the only metrics that a social media cares about, and values like healthiness of the discourse, truth, critical thinking, compromises, are never even slightly considered. You can't base your idea of a movement off of that, it's a distorted image, that does disservice to you as person (if you are actually interested in the matter) and to the greater society at large.

Fourth and final point. We like to call ourselves rational beings, but all humans are largely driven by emotion. This is why behavioural economics exist, because thinking about humans like rational being is unproductive and completely disconnected by reality.
Being emotional, means that people build resentment. That resentment isn't an excuse to treat others like shit, but it can't be ignored either. If you spent years with a colleague or classmate bullying you, and at some point he decided to get better and treat you equally, it would be understandable if you kept being distrustful of him, skeptic, or maybe even unwilling to co-operate.
Yes it's not fair for me to pay the price of another person who was a piece of shit to a woman in the past, this doesn't change the fact that her reaction is understandable.

Does this means that I think feminism is perfectly fine as it is? Absolutely not. The general discourse is too divisive and heated, and feminists that actually want gender equality should be harder on those who use feminism as an excuse to propagate misandry. Male rights activists are often put on the same plain as actual misogynist incels (and see here that I specified misogynist, as incel themselves as a group in theory means just involuntary celibate). I also think that feminism is too divisive of a word, that egalitarianism would be better, and the fact that some feminists don't accept this to me shows that a lot of people are more interested in purity games than actually having an impact through some pragmatic compromises. I can't also avoid to suspect that feminism has at least partially being used intentionally to divide the population in an effort to control the masses (and that's why I think talking about things so complex on instagram / tiktok is totally impossible).

But still, for all the problem that feminism has, it's important to not forget that the ideas behind it are the rejection around gender expectations, that a lot of feminists fight for man's rights too (read the will to change by bell hooks if you need proof), and that misandrist calling themselves feminists 1. doesn't make them feminists and 2. doesn't mean that feminism is a movement that hates men.
Otherwise we risk the same fate that incels and MGTOWs encountered. We end up with misogynist men that use a version of feminism that only exist in their social media feed to discredit the whole movement whilst calling themselves male right activists, and with time passing the actually men's right activist that were interested in fixing feminism gets silenced by a loud and hateful minority.

That said, thanks for reading, I'm interested in hearing your thoughts about all of this. Please have a civil discussion, and I'll try to reply to each person interested in discussing my points.

I know of course that the ipad sounds are only digital. Lately I've been obsessed with the Dreadbox Artemis, but I can't justify such a big expense considering I'm still a beginner in music production and I'm sure I would not use it to it's full potential. (it also seems less versatile than a Novation peak if I wanted just one hardware synth).
For the FX block the iPad can definitively deliver, with FAC Alteza as a reverb (totally in love) and Other Desert Cities as a delay.
The two things I'm missing are:

1. Good granular fx (microcosm style) that unfortunately don't have an iPad equivalent
2. The great analog warmth of the oscillators

I tried Pro-A5, Zeeon and Sunrizer, but I still can't get to the sound I want. I also tried the MoogerFooger saturator and that was an improvement, but I still feel like something is missing.
Any advice?
(If you want a reference of the sounds I'm trying to recreate, search "dreadbox artemis sketches Jay Hosking").

Thanks in advance for any time you'll spend answering