Posted on 12/29/2017 9:59:42 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
Male feminists take note: Bustle contributor Lauren Holter is on to your faux feminism and won’t settle for simple gestures any longer.
In a mind-numbing piece entitled ““To All The Male Feminists Out There, Here’s What We Really Need From You,”,” Holter argues that male feminists cannot simply put on a “woke T-shirt” or add the word “feminist” to their Twitter bio.
Feminist women want more action. Holter lays out six “suggestions” for men who want to become genuine feminists, most of which are ridiculous and insulting.
First, she tells men to stop interrupting women. She claims that women are constantly interrupted “in any scenario that involves talking,” and demands that men allow women to “do the talking for a change.”
With such an accusatory attitude, I would probably interrupt her too.
Holter then asks men to “evaluate [their] language.” She notes that “male dominance is so internalized that it can be tricky to make your language less gendered.” Translation: Don’t ever use any negative adjective to describe a female.
“Calling women emotional, needy, crazy, hysterical, frigid, or bossy all perpetuate harmful feminine stereotypes,” she argues. Apparently, the word “bitching” is off limits too, guys.
Holter proceeds to tackle workplace etiquette, where she encourages men to share their salaries with women. She believes this will accelerate the closure of the so-called “gender wage gap.” The infamous “gender pay gap” myth has been repeatedly debunked, even by liberal publications like Slate, which notes that women make different career choices and work fewer hours on average than men. Some even, dare I say, take a hiatus from work to become stay-at-home moms.
Myth or not, I don’t know any reasonable person – male or female – who would go around telling people how much money they make. That’s a great way to create a toxic work environment.
Holter continues by demanding that men not only vote for women but donate their time and money to their campaigns. The narrative that people should vote for a candidate based on their gender is utter nonsense and often tends to backfire. Case in point: Hillary Clinton.
She concludes by telling men to "check [their] privilege at the door and help women in tangible ways going into 2018."
Donning the pussy hat in solidarity with other women isn’t going to cut it next year, fellas. Feminists are counting on you in their fight for feminist things … like more abortions and free birth control. The struggle is real.
What world is she living in? Hello! …
You actually need that pesky masculine God.
Even the pagan cults knew this, hence the holly/ivy contest (holly being male, ivy being female) which was Christianized in sense in early witnessing in what is now Britain.
I don’t know why Christendom walked away from preserving that legacy, when it was so studious about preserving other legacies. It left a vacuum by which Christmas itself was accused of being pagan (due to now-unwitnessed symbolism).
Lesson to Christendom, however — if you’re going to adopt a pagan symbol into a Christian meaning, and it’s not square in the bible, better prepare to support it for the long haul. Like centuries if needed. Otherwise it’s going to turn against you.
Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeow.
You’re not supposed to go along with the delusions of the mentally ill.
That video brings back some memories … right here in River City.
Holter has just killed my attempt to understand feminism.
I was singing “Feel Like A Woman” in solidarity with their cause but now she says that is “fake feminism”. Oh, my feelings are hurt on that one.
Gee, I guess wearing a Pink Pussy Vagina Hat it out too. She probably would say that “you can’t use your head to get a head” or something like that.
It’s back to the basement with my copy of ELLE and listening to the “best hits” of Rosie O’Donnell. If I were a Catholic, I would try to do some kind of penitence but since I’m not, I’m going to order one big-assed pizza and name it Holter.
Good work.
Why would I take advice from someone who was obviously born yesterday?
“she encourages men to share their salaries with women”
If women shared their salaries with men at my job they’d have a slew of reverse discrimination suits; a few years ago they decided to get ahead of this “pay gap” nonsense by fabricating new titles for a group of women (mostly toys for ageing, lonely men) and raising their pay - with no additional responsibilities or time demands. It just forced us men to cut our hours down to match the bare minimum they work, but they are still paid more.
Eventually we’ll import enough Muzzies and macho braceros so this creature won’t dare walk outside unless escorted by a male relative; these femi-nazis don’t understand that since American men stopped breeding with them, our government has imported millions of people (male and female) that are far less enlightened than Western men.
You’re right, this nut shouldn’t be given a pulpit to spew this craziness and hate.
“Myth or not, I don’t know any reasonable person – male or female – who would go around telling people how much money they make. That’s a great way to create a toxic work environment.”
In the industry I am in, Defense, revealing your salary to anybody outside a select few in the HR payroll section is, across the industry, considered an offense normally dealt with by immediate termination.
You are usually told this early during Day One of the new hire induction process. Most companies put it in writing in the employee handbook.
“Attention cucks! Here are your new orders. Enjoy! We will still be shagging the Alpha Males behind your backs, or even while you’re doing the chores in the other rooms, but you enjoy your role as Feminine Support No Matter What, so this should not trouble you in the least. It is for Social Justice, after all!”
sounds BOSSY to me...
1. I interrupt everybody.
2. Language is a heritage and a tool. Arbitrary changes advance equality and opportunity for nobody.
3. My wife currently has a much larger salary than mine. When that flips, I will share with her as I have before.
4, 5. I campaigned for Sarah Palin in 2008 and Kathy Szeliga (U.S. Senate candidate) in 2016. I will continue to support such women, any chance I get.
6. I’ve been checking privilege for years and it usually isn’t mine.
Asking men to stop interrupting, and not to call us names or insult us doesn’t seem like a radical idea to me.
You mean act like Gentlemen? Isn't that being patronizing?
No, as long as you are accurate in your statements and logical in your interpretations, and don't behave in the manner described in the name-calling, it is not radical.
Clearly this fool has never been married to a woman!
In my lifetime work experience, many women I've seen do not deserve the same pay as the men with the same titles. For instance, I held a senior systems engineer title at a large computer site; they gave the same title and pay to some women to make them feel better. While building a row of computer servers and data cabinets, one gal comes along with a server on a mobile stand and asks me to hook it up for her. I said why, she should do it. She said "I don't know how." She didn't know how to hook up a keyboard, display and mouse. And wanted engineer pay. And she couldn't lift the server into a rack. I was responsible for calculating the power requirements for the data cabinets, assembling the cabinets and installing power and UPS to them, building the servers and installing the system software and doing the router communications. None of which she could do. Now multiply that by half a dozen similar women at the department and you get an idea of why the men were pissed off. Complaints would do no good, as department managers protected the women.
I've had other similar experiences at other places I worked. I've only encountered a couple women who were equal to the tasks as the men. One had no problem crawling through rat infested tunnels between buildings to install new data comm wiring, and knew her engineering as well as any guy. But on average, most women were overpaid, while the men were overworked.
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