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.
Game, did you say game?
I remember this old Computer game based on the same thing, but with Larry at least he was honest about being a slimeball!
They'd probably get more action if they weren't feminists.
You’re right; it would be toxic - yet I see more people clamoring for just that (probably to make the case for a lawsuit).
“they gave the same title and pay to some women to make them feel better”
“Complaints would do no good, as department managers protected the women.”
Now you know why these steps were taken; they were purely to protect the company from lawsuits 1) relating to pay, and 2) relating to hiring women at all. I’ve worked with some talented women, and others that weren’t; I’ve just never seen money thrown at unqualified, unproductive men the way I see it with women. It is all affirmative action window-dressing to keep lawyers and the government at bay.
When you see the efforts and money thrown at programs today to unsuccessfully get women into STEM fields, it becomes clear that there are differences between genders that can’t be ignored. They may be cultural, as some Asian women seem better adapted to those fields, but they exist nonetheless - American women don’t want to work in those very difficult fields. They just want the pay that comes with them, so the IT receptionist will be paid as a programmer.
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