Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

OPEN LETTER TO AMERICAN FEMINISTS
my angry self | 04 June 2004 | me

Posted on 06/04/2004 12:43:30 PM PDT by cyborg

Dear American Feminists,

I am a thirty year old woman living in the United States and have been studying what is known as 'the women's movement'. I've read some of your books especially those written by Gloria Steinem and other famous women's rights advocates. Reading these books I hoped to gain some insight into the movement that my fellow conservatives railed against. I sought to find out why Rush Limbaugh takes such obvious delight in calling all of you feminazis.

I disagreed with the goals of the feminists such as abortion rights, putting career ahead of family and so on. I thought it would be easy for me to go on with my life and allow you to go promoting feminist causes. After all, this is America and I don't spend my time telling other people how to behave and what to think. However, I did not realize the impact that the feminist movement had in the lives of men and women in this country till I started dating (if it can be called such).

I hope you are happy with yourselves. You've made it possible for more girls to enter spinsterhood than ever before all the while going psychotic and starving ourselves to death into an early grave besides. The biblical verse (I know you hate christianity but please excuse me) that states 'what does it profit a man if he gains the world and loses his soul' comes to mind. What does it matter if I'm rich with a great career, my own car, a healthy 'sex life' and nice clothes if I'm alone when I'm eighty rocking myself to sleep in a dirty nursing home all alone with no grandchildren? Perhaps you don't care that many men cringe at the idea of getting married because you don't care for the institution of getting married yourselves. Perhaps not having children doesn't bother you because you're too busy advocating the murder of children in the womb.

You talk about us women embracing our 'real bodies' and 'our fat womyn' BUT what do you feminists fill your magazines with? It's not 'real womyn' that is for sure. You peddle independent womanhood in the form of acting like a slut, dressing like a slut and having women portrayed as black widows. You champion little girls wearing g-strings and playing rainbow braclet gamwes while condemning girls who save themselves for marriage, or girls who are celibate and dress modestly as 'old fashioned' and 'out of touch'.

My thirtieth birthday came and went, and so far I've learned that many men don't respect women. A married man will go over land sea and tell all kinds of lies to get sex from a girl. I've also learned that trying to attract the attentions of man already burned once by a 'independent woman' is a fruitless effort and these men don't go through half the trouble single men or married men do to use a girl sexually. They do no think we women are worth it. I wonder how many girls will learn about your lies the hard way? How many girls will have a mother like mine to listen to the whining and frustration then only to say, 'see? You need to church and get right with God.' not mothers who are interested in being their best buddies and further encourage promiscuity.

Many young men don't even want to get married but instead wait for those women willing to have casual sex with them. You taught these girls that having unattached sex is the mark of a proud, independent woman like Sex in the City for instance. You trash Jessica Simpson for being a brainless idiot but we BOTH know why you really trash her and don't trash Britney Spears. Frustrated fathers raise sons and tell them never to get married. What are girls like me supposed to do? Or is my choice to want to be a wife and mother not as vaunted as having abortions or group sex on MTV? Bring up marriage and children to a single man these days, and a girl will find herself all alone on a Saturday night. So what's a girl to do? Don't bother answering feminists. American culture has had enough of your answers. Your well intentioned moral boondoggles have hurt women more than you will ever realize. Let's hope you don't spread your false gospel elsewhere.

Thank you for your time.


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS:
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 161-180181-200201-220 ... 241-250 next last
To: Howlin
Hey now!

Damn - I'm so busted....;-)

181 posted on 06/04/2004 4:14:49 PM PDT by TomServo ("Matthew 6:19 at the half... heh heh, little preacher joke.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 179 | View Replies]

To: A CA Guy
LOL no "chick flicks" for me. Explosions are good, fast cars or planes, anything military, rampaging lava or earthquakes a definite plus, tho storm type stuff works too. Failing any of that, swords, knights, dragons, magic, and good CGI are also acceptable. No PC please (see the new remake of the Neverending Story to see what I mean...pure butchery).
182 posted on 06/04/2004 4:19:46 PM PDT by Fire_on_High (Why are you looking at me so funny? He's just a rat...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 124 | View Replies]

To: Tax-chick
That was truly astounding!

I mean, to have a stepbrother who is forty years younger than you!

Tony Randall always did give me the creeps.

It's almost as if he took that punctilious, officious little jerk that he played on television and decided to assume his persona.

Disturbing.

183 posted on 06/04/2004 4:20:22 PM PDT by The Scourge of Yazid ( "Have you no morals, man?" "No. No. I can't afford dem guv'ner.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 180 | View Replies]

To: cyborg

Modern gender-style feminism was always doomed to be a deadend for women because the cornerstone of their screwball theory of male/female relationship is based on hatred of the opposite sex. Any lie or half-truth about "evil" men was propagated by these witless shrews to destroy the traditional nuclear family. Gloria Steinem has admitted as much. Coupled with their equally insane theory that men and women are the same except for physical differences makes them one the most evil influences on America since the advent of socialism ...which they are unabashed supporters of.


184 posted on 06/04/2004 4:24:50 PM PDT by driftless ( For life-long happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: cyborg

Excellent. An anti-feminism bump.


185 posted on 06/04/2004 4:25:32 PM PDT by writer33 (The U.S. Constitution defines a Conservative)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: cyborg

i've been reading university "critical theory"...ugh,
'scuse me while i vomit.

there's "the gaze"--that's how men look at women. tenured university feminists are making $100,000 per year on this stuff.


and, there's louis althusser, a commie, who killed his wife in 1980 and the french put him in a nut house, instead of prison. he died in 1990.

and yet, a lot of feminist "theory" is based on althusser--you'd think that a guy who killed his wife would not be a role model!


186 posted on 06/04/2004 4:27:37 PM PDT by no_problema
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: cyborg

Hey...calm down...they will soon be going to Massachusetts and California...look at the bright side...if enough show up those two states might break loose and float away...


187 posted on 06/04/2004 4:27:57 PM PDT by Hotdog
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Hotdog

LOL!!!


188 posted on 06/04/2004 4:32:04 PM PDT by cyborg
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 187 | View Replies]

To: A CA Guy
Democrat California Senator

If it's Jack Scott or Don Perata, I owe you a beer.

189 posted on 06/04/2004 4:32:31 PM PDT by Dan from Michigan ("Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America being passive. They were wrong.” - Reagan)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 167 | View Replies]

To: driftless

excellent summary... I agree.


190 posted on 06/04/2004 4:33:03 PM PDT by cyborg
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 184 | View Replies]

To: no_problema

Peddling crap makes money doesn't it? LOL... especially if it's thrown from the hallowed halls of academia.


191 posted on 06/04/2004 4:34:07 PM PDT by cyborg
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 186 | View Replies]

To: writer33

thank you sir :)


192 posted on 06/04/2004 4:34:32 PM PDT by cyborg
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 185 | View Replies]

To: cyborg

You're more than welcome. We need more real women in America such as yourself. I suppose they're out there. Well, I married one, but the media perception is quite different, even though I know how biased they are.


193 posted on 06/04/2004 4:49:56 PM PDT by writer33 (The U.S. Constitution defines a Conservative)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 192 | View Replies]

To: ThinkingMan
GUYS OPEN DOORS FOR LADIES BECAUSE IT IS POLITE!

And ladies say thank you because it is polite. Anyone who would do otherwise is ilbred and rude. You can be a strong woman without being a rude woman.

194 posted on 06/04/2004 5:00:22 PM PDT by radiohead (Over turning the Opponent Since 2003)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 106 | View Replies]

To: cyborg
And let me add:

Thanks, also, Feminists, for shaming women for believing that being with their children 24/7 was important. You idiots! Human beings need many years of growth watching and learning fron their parents before they attain civilization. You messed up our whole society by brainwashing moms of small children to go against nature and to pay for childcare-and-toilet-cleaning by strangers. We can not get these daycare/other care generations back.

And with all these women doing meaningless work while leaving the meaningful work of caring for their families to illegal aliens, salaries of men, of fathers, have gone way down. It used to be that one man could proudly support his whole family. Thanks a lot for doing that to him: you are probably glad.

And while you were protecting the rights of girls to have sex at any time with no consequenses, which has done them a WHOLE LOT OF GOOD, let me tell you, you killed millions of girls who were growing and waiting to take their first breaths. Oh, and you killed a bunch of boys, too. If you even care.

Sexist pigs? You coined it: YOU ARE IT.

195 posted on 06/04/2004 5:03:08 PM PDT by Yaelle
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: cyborg

Nothing like a Southern gentleman, cyborg.
Find yourself one and you'll have happiness.


196 posted on 06/04/2004 5:10:19 PM PDT by onyx
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Yaelle

AMEN!


197 posted on 06/04/2004 6:51:54 PM PDT by cyborg
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 195 | View Replies]

To: onyx

You're not the first person to say that :)


198 posted on 06/04/2004 6:53:53 PM PDT by cyborg
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 196 | View Replies]

To: saveliberty
the first thing is to throw everything the femocrats taught you out the window... The second thing you should do is go and buy a copy of The Rules.

At the risk of claiming to have understood this author's intent, let me suggest that not many readers seem to have done so. It will always be true that there are immediate actions one can take to improve one's lot, but what I think she's decrying here is that the environment in which she might seek to do this is itself getting worse. No one seems to want to talk about that.

It is unquestionably true that her odds of finding a "Mr. Right" are worse today because of 30 years of feminism. It is also true that the odds are continuing to get worse. We can all be helpful here and help her solve her individual life's quest, but I think what she's saying is that there are millions of women like her, and we can't send them all to the same church group to meet a nice man. There aren't enough church groups for that. The problem is that our society is hosed up.

Her odds are bad and getting worse at least partly because millions of young men are now aware that marriage has become, largely thanks to feminists, an extraordinarily risky thing for a man, where the penalty for making a mistake is literally ruin.

It's becoming more difficult every day to convince young men that all they need to do is "find the right girl." The right girl is only known in hindsight; all the real girls that can be dealt with today look like a 50-50 chance of ending up alone and in the poor house, estranged from one's children and treated like a bottomless ATM machine by lawyers and courts. You know the litany: a man can be thrown out of his house today with no due process, he can find himself accused of the worst sorts of things and be treated as guilty until proven innocent... we have put all these laws in at the behest of feminists and do-gooders, but in doing so we have managed to turn marriage into a thing that no sane man would enter.

It's not like this can't be changed. Finding this young lady a boyfriend is a nice gesture, but it will not solve the underlying problem. We need some serious divorce reform in this country so that the vast majority of the young men she encounters every day are not terrified of marriage. Today those men have every right to be terrified of marriage; theirs is the correct response to actual events and conditions. We need to stop pretending that these do-gooder laws we have now that treat men as The Enemy can't be -- and aren't -- misused every day to totally hose the lives of men who had nothing like that coming to them. We all know such men. So do the young men, and they don't want it happening to them next.

Most people sat by for the last thirty years and watched men being demonized in every possible way, with politicans jumping up and down to "do something" about all the monstrous men. Well, we've done that now; all men are by default assumed to be monsters, and they are treated accordingly. This is what we wanted, and now we have it. And now young men say, "I'm not a monster, and I refuse to be treated like one. I am not going to play this game."

Sending one young woman off to find a boyfriend isn't going to fix that. There's another young woman right behind her, and she can't find a husband either. You don't have enough foolish men available to solve the problem; the real fix is to change the laws so a man doesn't have to be a fool to consider getting married.


199 posted on 06/04/2004 8:04:42 PM PDT by Nick Danger (With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 74 | View Replies]

To: cyborg

Let the bitterness out, then put it aside. The beauty that is within you will draw your counterpart to you, as long as you allow yourself to be open to him when he arrives.


200 posted on 06/04/2004 8:16:12 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (That which does not kill me had better be able to run away damn fast.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 161-180181-200201-220 ... 241-250 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson