We seem to have pretty close stances on some issues but here there seems to be some distance between us. You seem to lean heavily on the fallacy of relative privation in this argument.

it would not be concerned at all with the plight of American women,...if they were concerned with the plight of women, "feminists" would be focused on subsaharan Africa, Afghanistan, and Saudi Arabia to name a few places.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacyofrelativeprivation

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Notasbadas

I like smbc's take on this fallacy but I can't find it. It ends with a character telling the other she wont listen to any suggestions unless it is about saving babies.

You don't need to dismiss negative aspects that affect your life just because others have it worse. Taking action in areas that have more equality than others is in not necessarily exclusionary of other groups, in fact it is quite the opposite. Groundwork laid by minority rights groups the world over help lay the ground work for those groups that are struggling worse than others. This even holds true for groups that are not necessarily linked, just look at how LBGT movements have used portions of the black movement to their advantage.

Women are now legal equals to men. debatable Yes, I understand that there is some discrimination against women (in the workplace in particular), but women are not "oppressed" in the US.

We can forgo the legal claim, it is not important to my point. You acknowledge there is a social discrepancy in the equality of men and women but "oppressed" bit is another use of relative privation.

So, again, if "feminism" were actually aimed at equality across the genders, sexual assault and rape would be framed as an "issue concerning humanity."

You seem to classify feminism as a superiority movement where women and mens roles in power switch, later on you restate this with your pendulum bit. I disagree and feel this is more of an issue of loss of privilege and how societies mainstream perceives that feeling.

From your quote above I switched out feminism with black movements.

"If black movements were concerned with equality across the races they would concern it with equality across humanity."

Clearly there is differences in the needs of black equality that differs with location as compared to the needs across humanity. Addressing their nuanced concerns is the same as above; not exclusionary to the rest of humanity and not a pull for "swinging the pendulum" the other way.

Your rape comparison is also clearly different in how the sexes are affected by rape on a social level. Do men fear getting raped on their way to their cars after work? Are men targeted as common as women with date rape drugs? Is the social stigma for women and men similar? Are men who are raped questioned on the authenticity of the rape? The only studies I can find that back the claim that men are raped more than women are studies using data from prisons. Clearly bars, work, parking lots etc. are not prisons. Men and women have different environments that their rapes are likely to take place and women cannot hide (rather should not have to) from society. With so many differences what good comparing numbers??

Here is my point; Men and women have different, but both terrible, social stigmas and social situations that deal with rape. Smoothing out the differences by saying humanism can cover it is blind to the history and the reason there are these minority movements.

It is like saying "we don't need black movements, we have humanism, we don't need advocates for the disabled we have humanism, we don't need feminism..."

Lumping things together that have different needs under humanism hasn't gone well historically for minority movements the past couple hundred years. These minority movements are reactionary movements, if humanism were filling the gaps there would be no need for other movements. To be clear I am saying Humanism/feminism are not mutually exclusive. A venn diagram of both cam encompass much of each other. We are diverse groups it is ok to specialize in areas of differences as the larger view cannot focus on the needs of all within such a broad spectrum.

Modern feminism has been directed at acknowledging the differences between men and women both socially and individually, the goal is bringing the issues to light where society is unnecessarily directed towards the benefit of a group that results in negative repercussions towards women.

Feminism. What is it really? It's the promotion of women's rights, ....Feminism was needed back before the several amendments making us equal were put into place, and laws were made to prevent unequal treatment.

Well that seems a rather incomplete take on feminism, just focusing on legal rights bit. Feminism, like other minority movements also focuses on social equalities. I can't really think of any movement; political, racial, sexual, that does not advocate for social apects of the groups.

fem·i·nism

ˈfeməˌnizəm/

noun

the advocacy of women's rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men.

synonyms:the women's movement, the feminist movement, women's liberation, female emancipation,women's rights; 

informalwomen's lib

"a longtime advocate of feminism"

Saying because there are laws in place for equal treatment therefore there is no need advocating for equal treatment is incredibly naive. How has that worked out for many minority groups? There still seems to be quite a bit of social disparity that needs to be addressed despite having laws in place.

Should the NAACP disband?