Posted on 05/23/2014 6:20:59 AM PDT by Kaslin
Shailene Woodley is fast-rising movie star, and at age 22, she's already thrown the country's most uptight feminists into a tizzy.
Time magazine asked Woodley: "Do you consider yourself a feminist?" To say she didn't give the Hollywood answer would be an understatement.
"No, because I love men, and I think the idea of 'raise women to power, take the men away from the power' is never going to work out because you need balance."
Many women continue to reject "feminism" because it evokes an ideological rigidity grounded in the hostility toward men. That, in turn, drives feminists around a bend.
The New York Times took up the outrage over the Time interview with Woodley. Novelist Jennifer Weiner, 44, went to Twitter to deliver her lecture, "Dear Young Actresses: Before you sound off on feminists and how you're not one, please figure out what feminism is." MSNBC contributor Zerlina Maxwell complained, "Here's another actress rejecting a feminist label she can't define properly."
This sputtering is a bit amusing. Feminists insist you support their entire agenda or you're guilty of waging a "war on women." Apparently a woman who isn't a feminist is anti-woman.
Feminists insist they care only for equality between the sexes, but if that were so, why would so many women balk? Because they hate themselves? Or because after 40 years of screaming, it is pretty apparent that activist feminists in academia, the media, and politics will never stop complaining. Forty years from now they will still be waging a war on intolerable "patriarchy."
It's becoming faddish again to mentally bra-burn. The Times found twenty-something feminist actresses who are perpetually outraged at people's failure to bow to feminism. HBO star Lena Dunham said her "greatest pet peeve" is women spurning the term feminist. Last summer in The Guardian newspaper, openly lesbian Ellen Page lamented: "I don't know why people are so reluctant to say they're feminists. Maybe some women just don't care. But how could it be any more obvious that we still live in a patriarchal world when feminism is a bad word?"
Actress Martha Plimpton closed out the Times article by insisting the stigma of the F-word simply must be removed, and that failing to support the word was a form of bigotry.
"I take a lot of pride in calling myself a feminist and always have," she wrote the newspaper in an email. "We're going to have to insist on correcting bigotry as it happens, in real time. And fear of women's equality, or the diminishment of it, is a kind of bigotry. I think it's important to remove the stigma associated with women's equality, and as such, yes, normalizing the word 'feminist' and making sure people know what it means is incredibly important, whether we're talking to celebrities or anyone."
But Plimpton knows just how batty it can get inside the progressive funhouse when it comes to defining terms. In January, Plimpton tweeted about a benefit for Texas abortion funds called "A Night of a Thousand Vaginas," and was promptly attacked by radical transgender activists who felt using the word "vaginas" in the event title brought pain to "trans men" who don't want the reproductive organs they still have "coded as female."
Biological reality is such a pain.
Many people don't accept the term "feminist" because it sounds like a very serious kind of pagan religion, with its own dogma and doctrinal enforcers. Others find feminists to be boors, pure and simple. Still others see the hypocrisy of it all. If feminists really believed women should be liberated to make their own path, wouldn't they embrace a debate over feminism? Such is the world of the "tolerant" left.
Real women never worry about their man cheating on them. If fact they inspire men to be the best they can be. Real women are secure in who they are and, as a result, are independent (but not selfish), and can hold their own.
Feminists (aka feminazis) do hate men, wish they were men (so-called penis envy), and are generally miserable people. Good for the younger ones who recognize this.
Where I work, there is not a single male.
Never has been for 13 years... this is DIVERSITY.
The females here ALL hate men and the funny thing is ... every one of them with a title and authority behaves as badly and worse than the worst man I ever worked FOR!!
Yes, feminazis hate men, even as they try desperately to act like they think men act.
#24 - Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society.
The irrationality of militant feminism is to reject femininity in order to assume masculinity. In that sense, masculinity won.
Try that one out on the next screeching leftist harridan you encounter. It can be amusing.
The only thing feminists hate more than men, are attractive women.
When “ - - - women continue to reject “feminism” because it evokes an ideological rigidity grounded in the hostility toward men. - - - “ are these women saying that they really liked the way their Grandfathers, Fathers, Uncles, Brothers and Cousins treated them throughout their lives?
What then are the anti-male feminists saying about their male blood-relatives?
What man in his right mind would choose to father his precious Children with a man-hating woman?
Her boobs are on either side of her belly button. She needs to pull them up a bit.
Bless her heart.
It appears to be congenital, maybe downforce from all those distended ligaments in her neck?
Ding, ding, we have a winner!
Yep...I figured that out in the ‘70s...why would a woman want to do the same as men if she thought so lowly of them....idiots on parade
Not any more.
It’s far worse than we think!
WOMAN’S LIB AND ISLAM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0cS4p9cFlo&feature=c4-overview&list=UUFDlhK80EdO28R-iGTXiGaw
” - - - Her boobs are on either side of her belly button. She needs to pull them up a bit. - - - “
HEY! Show a little compassion here!
This poor girl is obviously a victim!
Yup, a vicim of BBS, short for “Burned Bra Syndrome.”
Too bad most young people have never read some of the feminist propaganda from the late sixties and seventies. The great proponents of feminism at the time made it very clear they hated men and they hated America. Despite the fact that many of the femi-nazis came from privileged backgrounds, and many never worked an honest day in their lives. Many of them were mentally unbalanced...Andrea Dworkin for example. Come to think of it, many are still unbalanced today.
I’m just imagining the things she can do with that throat.
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