I’m not a feminist, I’m a bitch. There’s an important difference.
Mostly, the difference is that feminism is conceptually stupid, whereas being a bitch is just conceptually nasty. Besides which, I don’t really see myself as a bitch, I just know I am seen as one by other people, presumably because I’m verbally agressive and I don’t beam sunshine out my arse.
Feminism, as I understand it, is a movement that believes women are superior to men in some way. Possibly every way, I’ve never manged to get that far into the argument. If this is not the case, then they should stop calling themselves something so dumb and be egalitarianists. Or another theory I’ve heard is that feminism is seeking to even things out after the centuries of oppression by men, and therefore the goal is simply for women to have the advantage in circumstances like the workplace.
What a pile of utter drivel. I don’t give a damn what happened previously, you can do the right thing _now_. So why would anyone decide to ignore equality and logic for the sake of some sneaky honourless vengeance? I would be understandably pissed if I wasn’t given a job or a promotion purely because of my gender. But I’d be just as insulted if not more so were I to discover that I had been given something _because_ I was female.
Then there’s the “feminism is just the celebration and empowerment of womanhood” bit. Great, good for you. Have a fucking medal for being born with a uterus. Women aren’t special. Either everyone is special or no-one is. Men and women tend to be differently talented and have diverse personalities, these are inclinations rather than set rules.
I suppose the crux of this rant is that I don’t understand why people are proud of something they have no control over. You can’t be proud of being a woman, or from your country, or beautiful, or smart. You can only be proud of what you do with those things. Anything you are born with is, depending on how you look at it, a gift, or a random chance.
If you’re a woman, and you’ve overcome huge diversity to be where you are in life, congratulations. If you’re a man and you’ve done that, same deal. If you’re beautiful, and make millions as a model, hell even a stripper or a porn star, then you capitalised on what you had. Well done. If you have a 180 IQ and you put together boxes for a living, you deserve a slap. Preferably a slap from someone with half your intelligence, who’d love to be doing anything other than putting boxes together, but just doesn’t have the wherewithal.
January 3rd, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Unfortunately it seems feminism and misandry go hand in hand. These femi-nazis wouldn’t bother me too much if their actions didn’t result in a slow but steady castration of masculinity. One of the primary reasons why so many young males are so fucked up is because they have no positive male role models. No fathers, no male teachers etc. Who do we blame for this? The mother and the society disinterested in raising a child in tandem with the father of the child. Or simply the father of the child, whether he’s a useless jerk or not. (Even if he is a useless jerk it’s a chicken and an egg scenario). The second reason young males are so fucked up is because they don’t get adequate support from within the family or outside.
Another issue leading to fucked up young men is the level of pressure to perform they’re put under. What should a man be/do? Hunter, gatherer, provide for his family, look after children, work, go to war, build bridges and roads…the list goes on. What are women expected to do? Have children and for a few bonus points get married and for a few more bonus points get a job.
You’re walking down beside a river in a busy city and you see a child drowning? How many times would you have to run that hypothetical scenario before a women jumped in to help before a man? Infinitely?
I don’t think I’m making sense any more. Fuck feminism.
January 4th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Just because someone writes an argument against feminism because its blatantly illogical, does not mean that they think women are fucking up the world with it. The kind of militant feminism that actually tries to enforce itself is akin to religious activism and viewed with a lot of the same general distaste. Women had to assert a position to be recognized as people, and its this kind of misogynistic crap that leads them to try to maintain an aggressive stance which should no longer be necessary.
So men are being emasculated constantly, but are also still expected to be providers, protectors, builders? I think you will find the point of equality is to relieve men of the sole custody of this heavy burden. But of course if you think of a woman working as “bonus points” then obviously you wouldn’t see it that way.
Young males are fucked up because they don’t have role models? Teaching is a low-powered job, which most men don’t want to do. You cannot force anyone to be a role model. Perhaps we should blame women for the lack of a father in a child’s life too, they didn’t get enough points to merit staying with, and the production of children is apparently the major goal of being female, so its logical that they should keep the child and raise it.
Young males don’t get adequate support? for what? If a family doesn’t support their male children its highly unlikely they will be offering emotional succour to their female children either. Some families are crap, some fathers are useless jerks, some mothers are useless jerks too. Classifying men or women as responsible or not by gender is just as stupid regardless of which side of sexism you are speaking from.
January 20th, 2008 at 12:01 am
Whao! Hhupp there! Heavy stuff. All I want to know is “how come all the feminists (self declared) look, sound and dress like men, or am I living in restricted social circles? Is it a prerequisite?” Equal to or equal with men? makes no difference to me. I’m just better than any man and I ain’t dropping standards for any cause!