Posted on 08/28/2014 7:16:29 AM PDT by Kaslin
There was a time, or so I’m told, when “feminism” was about equality for women. Women had been treated as second-class citizens in many well-documented ways, and it was not right.
No need to rehash all the ways in which they weren’t treated fairly, they’re well documented. But somewhere along the way they won, if not every battle, at least the war.
In my lifetime, women have been able to do whatever they want and go as far as their ambition and talent will take them. But, like the union and civil rights movements, winning was the biggest threat to the movement’s leaders’ existence.
So, rather than accept victory, they continued to fight for the sake of fighting and, to no small degree, the money and power that comes along with instilling victim status on people they claim to want to help. By not accepting victory, they have become the problem, not the solution.
On Sunday night, after watching the last episode of True Blood (which was awful) and the season finale of The Last Ship (which was great), I watched the MTV Video Music Awards. And, as it turns out, I learned the new definition of “Feminist.”
Silly me for not realizing the word needed a new definition, but apparently it did. What used to be a fight for equality is now a fight to wear as little as possible and dry-hump everything in sight. What was once decried as sexist in music videos – the objectification of women – is now celebrated as the essence of feminism. I’m sure all those ‘80s hair bands are waiting by their phone for their National Organization of Women award for being heroes for women’s rights.
But before Warrant or Mötley Crüe answer those calls, let us look at what started all this. Beyoncé, the current queen pop music (she can sing, but her actual music is about 90 percent garbage to me since I prefer instruments) gave a 20-minute commercial medley from her latest album at the end of the show. She was surrounded by attractive women who were barely dressed and gyrating their butts on stage to the point that audience members were sent scrambling for dollar bills. Little did I realize that behind those, er, well, behinds, I was witnessing true feminism. Or so I’m told.
After the performance, the blogger SooperMexican tweeted a picture of Beyoncé standing in front of the word “FEMINIST” juxtaposed with a picture of her and 9 dancer’s butts. I retweeted it, adding the comment, “Silly me, I thought Feminism would involve more clothes.”
Silly me indeed. Soon after, and ever since, we were sent messages of how we were the problem with the world. We were oppressors. Not the radial Islamo-fascists who would kill every single one of those women in that picture – probably after raping them repeatedly – but those of us who didn’t understand the empowering nature of ass-showing and shaking for money.
As Time magazine put it in a piece entitled, “This Year’s VMA’s Were All About Empowered Women:” “The word “feminist” then flashed on the screen and lingered long enough for Beyonce’s silhouette to pull into the frame—and for her to be photographed with the words behind her a few thousand times.”
Heroic, right?
But they weren’t done. It continued, “Think about that: feminist sat written in huge letters on a screen behind the most popular pop star in the world on an awards show whose main demographic is tweens and teens.”
And those “tweens and teens” were watching, and learning … what exactly? After I raised this question on my radio show the next day, a 16-year-old girl called in to passionately and breathlessly explain how I couldn’t possible understand the importance of what I saw because I was part of the “patriarchy” and the problem. After a woman in her late 20s with a master’s degree called up to dispute that girl’s take, she called back to say that woman was “too old” to get it. But get what?
It seems feminism is now about “reclaiming women’s sexuality.” I didn’t realize it had been stolen, didn’t realize that before Beyoncé that MTV, and society as a whole, forced women to wear burqas and not speak unless spoken to, but they’re taking “feminism” back. It appears to now mean, as I’ve read several thousand times on Twitter, the ability to do whatever they want with their bodies, whenever they want, with whomever they want.
Strippers and porn stars, who used to be attacked by feminists, are now heroes. While no doubt shocking to women who considered themselves feminists at the time, it’s not really that surprising in a culture that elevates to celebrity status people whose only talent or claim to fame is a sex tape posted to the Internet.
Sadly, sex anytime with anyone is what these girls were talking about as “empowering.” Never mentioned by any of the discussants was the word “responsibility.” That’s for suckers and society, I guess.
It’s as if the concept of feminism has been turned over to 15-year-old boys – no-consequence sex with little to no effort made in its pursuit.
It has to be an awful time to be a teenager, especially a teenage girl. It’s an age when you’re rebelling against your parents, but bad haircuts and going Goth no longer cut it. You’re told repeatedly that sex is the ultimate rebellion, the ultimate empowerment at a time when you can barely spell the word, let along define it.
You’re also told that, as a woman, sex is the definitive expression of your womanhood. If you aren’t having sex you aren’t really a woman. But you’re a teenager, so you aren’t a woman yet. Any girl can have sex, and get pregnant, but it takes a woman to raise a child, and you aren’t there yet.
Beyoncé is a woman. She’s also worth tens of millions of dollars and is married to a man worth hundreds of millions of dollars. She can do whatever the hell she wants, not without consequences, but with the ability to afford the consequences. The girls who admire and emulate her don’t have that luxury. Beyoncé can hire as large of a staff as she wants to fulfill her responsibilities; her emulators can’t.
Thanks to the advances made by feminists of old, there’s never been a better time to be a woman. Women have unlimited opportunities and are constrained only by how far they can go according to their drive and talent. And thanks to modern feminism and pop culture, it’s never been a better time to be a hormone-raging teenage boy too. There seems to be a disconnect in there somewhere, but I’m “too old” and the “wrong gender” to be able to point it out.
Teenaged boys want their mothers to be at home, cooking and cleaning for them, and making sure the car is correctly maintained and always full of gas, the insurance is paid up, and there’s plenty of pizza in the freezer for when their friends come over.
The “easy” sex is a trap for males.
Current American pop culture splashes sex all over the media, radio, tv, newspapers, billboards, internet. It objectifies women and men. Its message is “are you getting enough?”
But the trap is set for the male. If he tries to do what the message says, he is a rapist and a sexist patriarchial male.
After the male achieves some maturity, he yearns for the stability of a normal family, which modern feminism and liberalism is trying to eliminate.
No. Feminism is the worst thing that has ever happened in this country. A disaster. It is destructive of all the values that our civilization has developed since its existence.
A wonderful movie (true story) A Man Called Peter, the true story of the life of Christian Minister Peter Marshall.
The actress that plays Catherine Marshall (Jean Peter`s) gives a wonderful talk to a group of young obnoxious teenagers.
She gave a wonderful speech that should be played in every classroom etc, it would change the world.
In it she says that in order for women to be equal with men, they needed to take a step down.
It just occurred to me that the speech/talk is probably available, sure enough it was
Here it is
Here is one of my favorite scenes from the movie.
(Catherine Woods gets up to speak at a rowdy youth rally and is met by claps and cheers from the boys….)
“If that’s because I’m a girl, thank you boys.
“And now, if you’ll let me, I’d like to talk as a girl, to the girls here this afternoon. I know if you boys will listen, they’ll listen too. And I’m just as sure that the reason they’ve been just as rude and silly as you’ve been, is because they had the mistaken idea that you wanted them to be.
“I’d never thought much about being a girl until two years ago, when I learned from a man what a wonderful thing it is to be a woman. Until that Sunday morning, I considered myself lucky to be living in the 19th century. The century of progress and emancipation. The century when, supposedly, we women came into our own. But I’d forgotten that the emancipation of woman really began with Christianity. When a girl, a very young girl, received the greatest honor in history. She was chosen to be the mother of the savior of the world. And when her son grew up and began to teach His way of life, He ushered woman into a new place in human relations. He accorded her a dignity she’d never known before, and crowned her with such glory, that down through the ages, she was revered, protected and loved. Men wanted to think of her as different from themselves. Better… made of finer, more delicate clay.
“It remained for the 20th century, the century of progress, to pull her down from her thrown. She wanted equality. For 1900 years, she had not been equal. She had been superior. To stand equal with men, naturally she had to step down. Now, being equal with men, she has won all their “rights and privileges.” The right to get drunk. The right to swear. The right to smoke. The right to work like a man. To think like a man. To act like a man. We’ve won all this, but how can we feel so triumphant, when men no longer feel as romantic about us, as they did about our grandmothers? When we’ve lost something sweet and mysterious? Something as, as hard to describe as the haunting wistful fragrance of violets?
“Of course, these aren’t my original thoughts. They’re the thoughts I heard that Sunday morning. But from them, some thought of my own were born. And the conclusion reached, that somewhere along the line, we women got off the track.
“Poets have become immortal by remembering on paper a girl’s smile. But I’ve never read a poem rhapsodizing over a girl’s giggles at a smutty joke. Or I’ve never heard a man brag that his sweetheart or his wife could drink just as much as he, and become just as intoxicated. I’ve never heard a man say that a girl’s mouth was prettier with a cigarette hanging out of it, or that her hair smelled divinely of stale tobacco.
I’m afraid that’s all I have to say… I’ve never made a speech before.”
(Catherine Exits; youth rally clapping)
I highly recommend the movie, every person should see it, wonderful Christian movie with a wonderful love story
When you could have been out running or reading a book or regrouting your bathtub. Our social commentators bear heavy burdens for us.
Feminist should be called “Masculinist”, it’s about women who want to behave like men. There’s no femininity in it at all.
That is correct. Real feminists behave like ladies
While what this man is saying might have been true recently, with the latest Star Chamber tactics on campuses re: sexual “assault”, those teens better think again about doing ANYTHING with today’s modern “feminists”.
And you know, bottom line, that might not be the worst thing in the world.
Inigo has a message:
“You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means”
That reminds me of a scene from some wacky movie with Ben Afleck (maybe). He’s a hard living guy and he’s talking with another of that type and the second guy is complaining that he can’t keep a girl because they always complain about his drinking, smoking, gambling. So the Ben Afleck guy says: Just find a girl who likes to drink and smoke and gamble. And the other guy says: Who wants a girl like that?
The modern feminism movement was started by Lesbians, with one of the main goals being making Lesbianism/Bisexuality mainstream.
Well they succeeded, it seems like now every female celebrity admits that they are at least bisexual.
There was much less fornication (and adultery, and illegitimacy) when it carried serious consequences, whether the consequences were "fair" or not.
there ya go :)
there ya go :)
A wise person once described feminism as “women traded housework for oral copulation”.
What is considered modern feminism is the worst thing. The original feminists like Susan B. Anthony were just fighting for the right to vote and be treated like males in legal matters. Most of them were anti-abortion and pro-American.
Modern feminists are exactly the opposite. I despised them when they came on the scene in the sixties with their anti-male, anti-American, and anti-free enterprise invective-filled screeds.
One of the prime objectives of those commie-inspired femi-hags from the sixties was to try and make people believe men and women were exactly the same except for physical characteristics. Most of their claims have been thoroughly demolished, but still a great deal of harm was done and is still being done by leftist dopes with power who think men and women are virtually the same.
It’s not Ben Aflac, it’s Matt Dillon (I always get those 2 confused).
and making sure the car is correctly maintained and always full of gas, the insurance is paid up,
...really...? Never knew any guy that depended on his mother to fill up his gas tank...as if anyone would ever have admitted to it if he did...
I’ll go a little further: I’ve known a number of radical feminists who regard all men as 15-year-old boys, then want to behave like the latter, and then are surprised that it isn’t a road to happiness. It may be that there are a couple of premises there that could use a little closer scrutiny.
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