| 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.   |