Posted on 02/01/2014 4:52:21 AM PST by Kaslin
I tell Gloria Steinem that women need feminism like fish need a bicycle. — Lori Ziganto
Like unions and the civil rights movement, feminism has been so successful that it has become largely irrelevant. Of course, as long as there's a buck to be made or an ego to be massaged, no movement in America ever really goes away. So liberal feminists have moved on from noble pursuits like giving women the right to vote and fighting blatant discrimination in the workplace to working overtime to keep successful conservative women from becoming seen as role models. No one hates a happy, successful, much admired conservative woman more than left-wing feminists. In fact, the only thing that makes them angrier is the suggestion that the state shouldn't provide them with free birth control. Actually on second thought, a lot of liberal feminists seem to hate men even more than not getting free birth control, which is kind of funny if you think about it. After all, if you hate men so much, you don't need birth control. Speaking of that paradox...
1) All sex between men and women is rape: Here's an excerpt from a feminist website called Witch wind. It's titled -- and I kid you not -- PIV is always rape, ok? PIV stands for (Penis in vagina).
First, well intercourse is NEVER sex for women. Only men experience rape as sexual and define it as such. Sex for men is the unilateral penetration of their penis into a woman (or anything else replacing and symbolising the female orifice) whether she thinks she wants it or not – which is the definition of rape: that he will to do it anyway and that he uses her and treats her as a receptacle, in all circumstances – it makes no difference to him experiencing it as sexual. That is, at the very least, men use women as useful objects and instruments for penetration, and women are dehumanised by this act. It is an act of violence.
2) Stay at home moms are failures:From liberal feminist Amy Glass...
I Look Down On Young Women With Husbands And Kids And I’m Not Sorry
…Do people really think that a stay at home mom is really on equal footing with a woman who works and takes care of herself? There’s no way those two things are the same. It’s hard for me to believe it’s not just verbally placating these people so they don’t get in trouble with the mommy bloggers.
Having kids and getting married are considered life milestones. We have baby showers and wedding parties as if it’s a huge accomplishment and cause for celebration to be able to get knocked up or find someone to walk down the aisle with. These aren’t accomplishments, they are actually super easy tasks, literally anyone can do them. They are the most common thing, ever, in the history of the world. They are, by definition, average. And here’s the thing, why on earth are we settling for average?
…You will never have the time, energy, freedom or mobility to be exceptional if you have a husband and kids.
3) Women who have children are reprehensible: If you believe all sex is rape and mothering your children is for losers, it makes a certain kind of sense that many liberal feminists detest the idea of having kids. Of course, it also seems more than a little hypocritical to disown your own daughter for having a child (Just like mom!), but liberal feminist Alice Walker did it.
Alice severed ties with her daughter Rebecca in 2004 after learning that her 30-something daughter had committed the most heinous of anti-feminist acts: procreation. On purpose!
I was at one of her homes, sitting, and told her my news and that I’d never been happier. She went very quiet. All she could say was that she was shocked. Then, she asked if I could check on her garden.
After exchanging a series of emails, Alice wrote to Rebecca to say that their relationship had been “inconsequential for years” and that she was no longer interested in being a mother to her daughter. She later cut Rebecca out of her will.
As Rebecca has since revealed, Alice’s lip service to choice, opportunity, and freedom for women doesn’t allow room for her own daughter to choose motherhood. Unsurprising from a woman whose greatest act of motherly concern was arranging an abortion for Rebecca when she became pregnant at 14.
4) Feminists are unclear on which gender has a vagina: One of the more bizarre beliefs that feminists embrace is that gender is just a social construct. This is a ludicrous idea because although you can find minor differences in how masculinity and femininity are displayed in different cultures, they are minor differences. There are no Amazon societies. In no country on earth do the women love violent sports while the men are out buying dozens of pairs of high heels. Put another way, no matter how much liberal feminists desire it to be so, there are real and very important differences between men and women. One of those differences is that women are the ones with vaginas. Of course, don't tell that to liberal feminist Jessica Valenti.
I have to disagree with something you said. Not only women have vaginas. Saying that only women have vaginas alienates the trans*community, because some women have penises, and some men have vaginas, not to mention all the nonbinary people in the world. Anatomy and biology do not determine one's gender identity any more than they do one's sexual orientation.
5) All men are evil and deserve to be punished: There's a reason feminists are stereotyped as bitter, man-hating, trench harpies. It's because most of them are bitter, man-hating, trench harpies. In fact, if you took the man hatred out of the movement, left-wing feminism would collapse because it's more philosophically centered around hating men than helping women. Just to give you a few examples...
“I feel that ‘man-hating’ is an honourable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.” – Robin Morgan, Ms. Magazine Editor
“To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he’s a machine, a walking dildo.” -– Valerie Solanas
“The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race.” — Sally Miller Gearhart
“Men who are unjustly accused of rape can sometimes gain from the experience.” – Catherine Comins
“All men are rapists and that’s all they are” — Marilyn French
Liberal feminism is a dead end full of unhappy man-haters and wackos. On the other hand, conservative feminists like Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, Dana Loesch and Michelle Malkin are phenomenal role models not just for young women, but for everyone.
Only 5?
That’s a bit like Rush’s statement about why feminism was begun, i.e., to give ugly women a chance in the world.
I just read up on Alice Walker, the write of “Color Purple”.
It also says this:
“She is a staunch defender not only of human rights, but of the rights of all living beings”.
I guess that doesn’t apply to her daughter having a living being.
She got married after college and had her daughter, Rebecca. I guess it was ok for her to have a baby but not her daughter.
She had a short romance with Tracy Chapman years after her divorce from her husband.
“That would be a utopia... for the men.”
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I suspect that less than a week of it would cause you to reevaluate that statement. Have you ever tried to deal with a horny woman when you are dead tired and cannot hold your eyes open?
Even the AMAZONS of mythology had to have men to replenish their ranks of women.
Not an exact match, but maybe ‘Princess Ida’?
Which is why the only way they can reproduce is by stealing other people's children. Which is why so many of them wind up on college faculties.
There is nothing uglier than office politics between warring women.
This notion that there is a “sisterhood” where women look out for each other and mentor each other is BS
The Big Lie I’m tired of hearing is how women earn less than men because of Men Keeping Them Down and outright Discrimination.
Nevermind the fact that there are entire INDUSTRIES that are primarily worked by men - lumberjacks, miners, police, firemen - that are inherrently dangerous, and therefore have higher rates of compensation.
Biology dictates that a women will spend less time on the job.
If women wanted to be honest - they would give the guys credit for putting in more hours (and I’m speaking in general terms of course - there are women who don’t have children & don’t take extended Leaves)
Is it wrong for employers to give men credit for time served?
Is a woman being “punished” if she doesn’t get the same raise he received?
And exactly WHEN did it become the employer’s job to pretend she is “there” when she isn’t?
And I’ve had several children so I know how hard it is to try and keep up - but I can’t deny that everyone that didnt go on Leave had to work harder during that time.
And once many women have one or two children - they may not WANT to climb the ladder with ruthless ambition.
The liberals accuse us of not being “nuanced” - but they can sure break down a cim
Whoops! Dang phone.
... They can break down a complicated issue into a moronic soundbite for political purposes.
That is a 100% accurate observation. I hated being caught in the crossfire.
There were days crossing the parking lot I hoped a car would hit me or I would have a heart attack. Any excuse not to go in there. It was a messed up period.
“... They can break down a complicated issue into a moronic soundbite for political purposes.”
Agree 100%.
That is inherently unfair and needs to be remedied through legislation or whatever means available immediately.
“That would be a utopia... for the men”
Except that the women running this utopia would be man hating lesbians.
I love my male boss.
He didnt have a problem with my private choices regarding child bearing (my female bosses did)
He didnt play ridiculous head games.
He was direct- and if you messed up - he told you exactly why.Then he moved on& didn’t hold a grudge!
I’m so sick of witchy women demonizing men. Sure there are jerks and chauvinist pigs out there,but alot of these “ladies” should take a good look in the mirror.
I’ve run into a few good female supers.
The fat, ugly, socialist hag I refer to was evil, at least to anyone that didn’t meet whatever standards she had. Those seemed to change a lot.
One time I had a severe muscle spasm and I was walking worse than Frankenstein. She just looked at me with a “so what” look. A quick visit to the chiro fixed it.
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