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.
Hey look! ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-ONE ACTS OF DESTRUCTION.
IN TWO DAYS!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13788491
Canada was born as it remains today: a country that uses violence to promote opression, bigotry, sexism, and tyranny.
Thanks Antz, you are a rich minefield of information.
Also, I hear Nellie McClung broke a vase once.
Well, approximately a billion of us have yet to blow him, so I’d say “quite a few”!
Well, the Seneca Falls Convention–the birthplace of modern feminism in the US at any rate–came up with a Declaration of Sentiments, which included a list of Grievances and Resolutions. Strong stuff, I know, but it even included the following bit of extremism:
On her own, [Elizabeth Cady] Stanton added a more radical point to the list of grievances and to the resolutions: the issue of women’s voting rights.[29] To the grievances, she added “He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise.”[29] Stanton then copied the Declaration and resolutions into final draft form for presentation at the meeting. When he saw the addition of woman suffrage, Henry Stanton warned his wife “you will turn the proceedings into a farce.”[30]
So, there you have it: radicalism–indeed, farcical radicalism–at the very outset of the women’s movement.
Although slashing paintings and damaging stained glass windows…whew! Bin Laden would have turned green with envy.
Because feminism is clearly the only social movement that ever had people involved in it committing vandalism.
opression, bigotry, sexism, and tyranny.
Funny words to describe women being allowed to vote.
He wouldn’t have approved, though, because it was done by going outside instead of staying at home watching porn like a true freedom fighter. 😀
Hey, wasn’t there a time in American history when white dudes couldn’t, like, elect a leader and shit? It was as if they had no representation, but at the same time they were being taxed? Whatever happened with that?
Actually the colonists could, and did, elect leaders. WIth a few exceptions when the brits were getting pissed, such as specifically Boston, the colonies were left to manage themselves, and had considerable leeway in doing so. Some colonies weren’t actually established as democracies to begin with but even they began yielding to representation. And for internal purposes, colonists actually did have the power of taxation; it was a weapon wielded against the colonial governors, because the governors had only the budget given to them by the colonists.
Britain set a great deal of policy in addition, and notably followed a mercantilist policy in trade, which did create additional barriers in some matters, but what the colonists notably lacked was representation in parliament (For all the good it would do, as with their puny population they would have had only a token vote), and the british setting overarching taxes above colonial ones ticked them off. Never mind that the taxes paid for the troops that guarded land the colonists were desperate to move into, or the war that Americans got their heads collectively handed to them, they didn’t like not getting their voices heard in the process! Well that and not getting to shoot indians and settling the land they refused to pay for the guards for, all of which was a big part of tensions.
“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.”
I often wonder if these people are making up stories or are simply too deluded/incredibly stupid and misinterpret their own situation. Seriously, this whole “WOMEN WANT US TO HOLD DOORS OPEN FOR THEM BUT DON’T WANT TO RECIPROCATE” shit is ridiculous. The last time I checked, holding doors open for anyone, male or female, is common courtesy.
“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”
Oh yeah, women’s worth is only in their looks. How dare the uglies get all up in our faces about it?! They should just stay out of the public eye if they’re not attractive! Damn feminist bitches for implying that women aren’t just objects to be gazed at!
“[Feminists’] entire shtick is to repeat misinformation and when that fails bust out the unsubstantiated personal attacks”
Kind of like what this asshole is doing. Ah, the irony.
Feminism started in 1914? Lol, did you know, AntZ, that Russian and Spanish use the same characters?
So what was Seneca Falls then?
So by Antz’s logic, because some people of color committed acts of vandalism and violence during the Civil Rights movement, that means all people of color are violent and destructive?
The colonists vandalized a shipment of tea while declaring independence from Britain. Therefore all US citizens are violent.
My domestic kitten evolved from wildcats that wouldn’t have batted an eye at eating prehistoric people. I’d better go club him in the head before he can kill me in my sleep.
Well, it’s clear that people like AntZ don’t actually give a crap about the truth, because they’re having way too much fun with their own rabid delusions, but here’s a history lesson anyway. Feminism was born out of the classic liberalism movement of the 18th century. In 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft (mother of Mary Shelley) wrote “A Vindication of the Rights of Women,” in which she argues that women are not inferior to men and are deserving of all the same fundamental rights that men enjoy.
In colonial America, Abigail Adams was a passionate advocate for women, again emphasizing access to education, as well as property rights. In March 1776, she wrote to her husband, future president John Adams, to “remember the ladies” when forging this new republic. Although she also threatened rebellion in that famous letter, remember that America itself was born out of a revolution and it would be entirely hypocritical to use that language against her and yet at the same time celebrate our rebellious forefathers. And let’s also remember that such a female rebellion never happened. John Adams and our other forefathers gave the rights of citizenry to white landowning men only. By the early 1800’s, the landowning requirement was removed, but only white men were allowed to vote. It was another 120 years before women could vote in America.
In 1848 at the Seneca Falls Convention, Elizabeth Cady Stanton read her “Declaration of Sentiments,” which was based on the Declaration of Independence. All of these women pointed out that they were required to submit to laws that they had no voice in forming. All of them point out the importance of education in forming an equal society of men and women.
Feminism was born out of the liberal ideals of liberty and equal rights. Period. Claiming otherwise is either ignorant or delusional. Take your pick, AntZ. Are you ignorant, or just delusional?
From burning castles to burning bras? Where did feminism go wrong???
the last one is true tho
Been reading the blog for a while, but this is my first comment…I just have to express mystification over the thing about being publicly embarrassed by feminists for holding doors open for them…Where does this happen? I hold doors open for anyone, male or female, who is close enough that it might shut in their face. I have only ever had people respond in one of two ways…either a ‘thank you,’, or a complete lack of any reaction at all. No one has ever said anything rude to me. Ever. Not once. Of course, I live in the midwest. Maybe people are just more polite here. Just as likely, thought, it’s all in the head of the asshole in question, or he’s making it clear he expects a blowjob in gratitude for the door assistance…either one is likely with these knobs, I guess.
Anyone who’d like to read Mary Wollstonecraft’s
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
Can do so online.
Published in 1792, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman was the first great feminist treatise. Wollstonecraft preached that intellect will always govern and sought “to persuade women to endeavour to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonimous [sic] with epithets of weakness.”
It is, sadly. Well, cat, I love you but you’ve knocked over my wastebasket one too many times.
Take your pick, AntZ. Are you ignorant, or just delusional?
I don’t think this is right. When looking at the Great Wall of Mississippi, and the VR partners which will make everyone happy, we have delusional covered.
The ignorance pretty much speaks for itself.
True, Pecunium. After all, we are a “both/and” movement and not an “either/or” one. I stand corrected. Both it is!
Also, Mary Wollstonecraft was vilified by the public after her husband published a memoir of her life. She was called, among other things, a hyena. This is because biologists of the time believed that the female hyena was hermaphroditic. Basically, they were saying that because she refused to conform to traditional social mores and demanded rights for women, she had a dick. Clearly it’s feminists are are hateful.
Antz,
Yes. One of the early suffragette organizations was very militant and did some reprehensible things. Mary Richardson, the person Pankhurst was writing about in that quote also went on to become a major fascist leader in England.
How does ANY of this relate to the modern world?
Ray: Because Feminists!!!!!!!