| A lot of the fringe groups do. After all, all men are predators.
Let me show you a passage that I have found puzzling. I hope you can help me make sense of this:
I interpreted this as the author trying to draw a distinction between the "bad feminism" of NOW et.al., which seeks to tear down everything except women, and a non-controversial "good feminism," the basic tenet of which is to protect women against bodily harm, and of course to promote equality. What stumps me is that the author does not bother to tell us why women need to band together for protection against bodily harm. Apparently this is something you Earthlings all know, but it has left me guessing. As a Visiting Martian, I must assume that there is some predatory force out there that, in the absence of this women's movement, would be visiting bodily harm upon women... and apparently only women. For while the Good Feminism seeks "equality," it does not bother itself with any bodily harm that might be visited upon men, or children, or really anyone except women themselves. (As a Visiting Martian, I have found this to be typical of feminisms of all kinds. I have classified them in my notebook as "Equality movements which seek special privilege and protection," a classification I had not previously encountered in my travels.) To understand this passage better, I need to know what the predatory and apparently quite brutal force is that the Good Feminism seeks to protect women from. I hope you can help me out, because the author seemed to think it was obvious. |
Excuse me. I am the proverbial visiting Martian Anthropologist. I'm hoping you can help me out with something here. You seem to be making light of the idea that men are predators, as if it were a joke. In the article you positioned it as a somewhat ludicrous view promoted by the people I refer to in my notes as 'feminist extremists.'