As
a male thinker, I have a particular interest in feminism - in particular,
I'm interested in it's means of accomplishing it's goal in modern
society. Though I'm familiar with its definition, I suspect there
is more to the story than just that. Now, you should know that I've
been careful not to have gone and been influenced by anybody else's
point of view on feminism - it's just my observations and speculations.
Feminism, by definition,
is the belief that men and women are equal. This means politically,
socially, domestically, and economically the two genders are of
equal capacity. Now that's just the definition, of course, and not
necessarily the full concept in reality.
Feminism gives me little
room for option: like it or leave it. I've chosen to leave it, and
with good reasons. Feminism is sending the wrong message, first
of all. It says that women are the real victims of inequality, and
that they are the most important victims of the systemic bigotism.
In reality, however, it seems that racism is much more important
than sexism, and a general prejudice against the working class of
people seems to be most important of all. The average person, no
matter if they're white or black, man or woman, seems to be a faceless
nobody who is presumably too stupid to be sucessful, and too lazy
to try... this isn't true.
Feminism seems like it's
exploiting social softening - in other words, they are kicking down
unlocked doors. Political activism is an ineffective, crude method
of demanding equality; because which bigot is really going to change
their mind if a woman with a loudspeaker yells in his face? Doesn't
that get the reverse effect? Will they say to themselves, "yeah,
I really want to help this annoying woman get power over me"?
Most guys I know don't have a problem with women in power, unless
they percieve that the woman in power will be a feminist! The point
is that us guys don't want to hear about inequality, since most
of us aren't sexist. And besides that, when a feminist gets power,
they think they are better than men - but I thought it was about
EQUALITY, not FEMALE SUPERIORITY! No wonder so many people compare
feminists to fascists and even nazis.
I know that women and men
have equal capacity, and are both equally smart, but I don't think
I want to be run by feminists. Note the difference between a
regular woman and a feminist. From what I've seen with other
relationships, I can't say I've seen a good example of a woman in
power. Recently, the power in a relationship has shifted to women,
who have no idea what they're doing, it seems. Here they are, suddenly
able to command men like soldiers ready to die for them, and what
do they do? They ask for everything, and if they don't get it, they
play psychological guessing games with the guy until he's a sobbing
mess. It's irresponsible, unguided, inexperienced failure - and
we're just talking about dating! I can't imagine it going on a national
scale. Girls use their sexuality to bend guys to their will, and
they are loving it. It's sadistic. It's tragic. I don't stand for
it. No naive little bimbo is going to seduce me into buying her
useless crap, or treating her like a princess when she treats me
like a servant.
If you want to be treated
like a princess, treat me like a prince. Got it?
No I don't have a prejudice,
but yes I do hate activist feminism. I think that if you're really
serious about equality, you should be an INDIVIDUALIST, not a FEMINIST.
- Terry Wolfe.
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