A redditor called fxexular has put together an amazing compilation of fun “facts” about feminism from assorted Redditors. It’s a bit like reading the descriptions of an elephant offered by six blind men who are also drunk misogynist assholes. Among my favorites:
feminism, at best, focuses on relatively trivial female issues instead of grotesque male issues and at worst is pure man hate.
feminism. Where the most privileged people in society can whine about their “oppression of opulence.”
Feminism is about strong males using law to further marginalize weak males.
The ruling class uses feminism as a tool to keep men, young men and boy’s down
It’s like pissing in a bucket of water – piss enough, and you’ll dilute the water to mostly piss. “Feminism” is a bucket of piss these days, from all the crazy and ignorant that attached to it over the years, especially the past decade when it became a fad.
feminism destroys men’s confidence and sense of satisfaction in being male.
every feminist is a abuser or a abuser apologist or a shield for other abusers.
Feminists don’t even think of men as human.
Most women and feminists view gay men as accessories.
these feminist nut cases have only one goal: total female supremacy at the expense of men. Fuck every last one of these haggard harpies. Fuck ’em all.
I used to hold doors, I dont anymore. I just let it slam in the face of whoever is behind me b/c I have been publicly embarrassed by many a feminist for being polite.
Feminists are like witches, but this isn’t the The Land of Oz, Dorothy. There are no “good” feminists.
Brainwashed weak feminist men are a favorite of feminists. They don’t treat them very well, but they use them to great effect.
i’m mad as hell at the way men are treated by the feminist gynecocracy
The people who dismiss /mr are like abusers; they’re looking for any excuse to piss all over something they know is logical and true because they can’t handle it emotionally.
Many feminists do hate men and want to emasculate them. While I’m thankful for the few who don’t I feel that their silence allows the groups like NOW to exploit men and women alike for their own aims.
I know it sounds good to believe that feminism was always about equality but go and read up on the first wave suffragettes. They were basically domestic terrorists in many cases.
The feminism of the 60’s also lead to the vitriol hatred of men.
I suspect that the butt-ugly women who started feminism in the 60’s were confronted for the first time with an efficient mating market (after the sexual revolution), and they couldn’t stand “losing” to the pretty girls
[Feminists’] entire shtick is to repeat misinformation and when that fails bust out the unsubstantiated personal attacks
Yeah, no irony there!
I think this one is my favorite, though:
I will never socialize with feminists after I learned the darkness of their philosophy.
Most of these quotes are from the Men’s Rights subreddit. Every quote in fxexular’s list that I went to look at in context had gotten more upvotes than downvotes. So they must be true!
EDITED TO ADD: Oops! Forgot the link. I added it above. And here is is again, just in case.
I like how none of this is said with the remotest hint of substantiation actually.
I have never seen anyone fuss at anyone for opening doors, ever. I open doors for whomever is behind me, because that is polite. I thank all people who do the same for me. I have been thanked for opening doors, but never fussed at for it.
Bostonian- I’ve been fussed at for holding doors open for people. These people were dudes. One if them even called me a bitch because I happened to reach the door first.
I am sorry you encountered that.
I’m a sex-positive feminist, but I will never understand the conviction of the manosphere that feminism is All About Sex. I mean, what does “getting women into politics and STEM” have to do with sexuality? Or “family-friendly workplaces”? Or even “having people not call me gross because my armpits aren’t shaved”?
Yeah, I’m not going to take history lessons from morons who don’t know that the 60’s saw the Second Wave of feminism. Look up suffragettes, you whiny little babies.
These “feminist” creatures sound horrible. Thank God I’m not one of them! I’m just an ordinary person who happens to believe all people should be treated as equally human.
Here’s a fun game you can play at home:
1)Copy and paste the text of this blog post into Word, and find and replace all instances of “female/s” with “male/s” and all “male/s” with “female/s,”
2) Start a Reddit group and post this with no substantiation.
3) ???
4) Profit!
As a guy who opens doors for people (note that word: people) behind me, count me as someone else who has never experienced a negative reaction from doing so. I don’t know what parallel world these people are living on.
“These “feminist” creatures sound horrible. Thank God I’m not one of them! I’m just an ordinary person who happens to believe all people should be treated as equally human.”
Welcome to the MRM.
“Yeah, I’m not going to take history lessons from morons who don’t know that the 60′s saw the Second Wave of feminism. Look up suffragettes, you whiny little babies.”
@blitzgal
You need to read a little bit before you write.
Antz, it’s a joke. A joke about how I (an actual, real-life feminist) am so different from these “feminist” creatures imagined in the post that they’re unrecognizable to me.
Maybe we could call the MRA’s demon harpies “fymynysts” (hat tip to MRAL), and call the ordinary people who happen to believe in gender equality “feminists”? Just to make the bookkeeping simpler.
Because using the same word is just every kind of confusing.
I like these guys’ approach to feminism. Say truly CRAZY shit you just pulled out of your ass or possibly thought of while strangling yourself with a belt as you masturbate after having just huffed some AMAZING Martha Stewart paint (from Ace!)…and put it out into the ether. Putting it out there MAKES IT TRUE!
Also, feminists, all sprung–fully-formed–Athena’s vagina. And they’re given a standard-issue unicorn at birth. I READ IT SOMEWHERE.
And you need to lay off the hallucinogenic drugs.
“The ruling class uses feminism as a tool to keep men, young men and boy’s down”
That’s okay, synthetics have made down essentially obsolete in all but the most extreme cold. Those boys will be fine without it.
I love Athena, so I’m totally down with that, but I don’t buy the unicorn thing. Aren’t all feminists total sluts? Unicorns hate sluts! Pretty sure I’ve read that somewhere, too.
Somehow I forgot to add the link to the Reddit post. Oops. It’s there now, twice!
I also heard we have vagina dentata.
I also hold doors for whoever is behind me. I never understood that people apparently get fussy over it. However, one time I held a door for a man, and he looked me over, laughed, and said “we’ll alright then!” I obviously didn’t get the joke.
Feminism is about strong males using law to further marginalize weak males.
Of course feminism is all about men! Men are the only people! And they’re certainly the only ones doing things that matter. Ergo, feminism must be about men doing things.
I can’t help but read these and hear a whiney voice in my head screaming “Waaaah, those feminazis won’t let me do whatever I want to women, no matter how abusive under the banner of masculinity! waaaah.”
Once I was approaching a double door at the same time as an older man, and as he went for the left door (to hold it for me, it turned out, though I didn’t immediately notice that) I went for the right door to open it for myself as usual — we ended up pausing at the same time, both doors open, and he said “open your own doors? Good for you!” and I smiled at him awkwardly and that was the end of it. And that’s pretty much the most drama I’ve ever had pertaining to a door. Guess I’m not a real feminist! :p
I tend to believe people when they talk or write of their experiences, but I find the reports of ‘cursed out for holding open a door’ hard to believe.
When someone, male or female, opens a door for me, I thank them. The only problem I’ve encountered is when I’m reaching to open the door for myself and a man comes up quickly behind me to open it for me. Then we end up doing a kind of dance, which can be awkward but hardly curse-worthy. And I thank him (it’s always been a man).
I hold the door open for everyone: men, women, Conquistadors on donkeys, babies. Sure, sometimes I wonder why babies are out walking around by themselves, but that doesn’t stop me from being polite.
Re: gay men as accessories…lemme save you some heartache–they strenuously object when you try to wear them as a pendant.
Re: gay men as accessories…lemme save you some heartache–they strenuously object when you try to wear them as a pendant.
They’re also not crazy about being bangles. Especially if you stack them three deep or more.