How to make feminism great again

Submitted by Mastodon on Mon, 2016-12-05 17:42

Article here. Excerpt:

'First of all, it’s time to stop calling the United States a patriarchy. A patriarchy is a system where men hold the power and women do not. Women do hold power in the United States — they lead major universities and giant corporations, write influential books, serve as state and federal judges and even manage winning presidential campaigns. American women, especially college-educated women, are the freest and most self-determining in human history. Why pretend otherwise?

Feminism is drowning in myth-information. Advocates never tire of telling us that women are cheated out of nearly a quarter of their salary; that one in four college women is sexually assaulted, or that women are facing an epidemic of online abuse and violence. Such claims are hugely distorted, but they have been repeated so often that they have taken on the aura of truth. Workplace discrimination, sexual assault and online threats are genuine problems, but to solve them women need sober analysis, not hype and spin. Exaggerated claims and crying wolf discredit good causes and send scarce resources in the wrong direction.

Today’s women’s movement also needs to reckon with the fact that men struggle just as much as women. Modern life is a complicated mix of burdens and advantages for each sex. Too often, feminism focuses on gender inequities among elites: CEOs, MIT astrophysicists, U.S. senators. It is true that there are too few women in those positions, but we need to consider the entire workforce for context. Most backbreaking, lethally dangerous jobs — roofer, logger, roustabout and coal miner, to name a few — are done by men. It is men — especially working-class men — who are disproportionately crushed, mutilated, electrocuted or mangled at work. Activists lament the dearth of women in the Fortune 500, but they fail to mention the Unfortunate 4,500 — the approximate number of men killed on the job every year.'

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Christine Sommers is waving the white flag of surrender.

We must not believe them. We cannot give in to the whimper of feminists as they scream "uncle!" Feminsm must be destroyed. This is not the time for compassion. This the time to totally destroy the enemy.

Sommers is still a feminist. She wants the movement to survive. We must flush this bowel movement along with the rest of history's excrement.

No surrender. We cannot even consider this essay a minor victory. We must pursue total destruction of the enemy.

No surrender! No prisoners.

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Submitted by ThomasI on Tue, 2016-12-06 05:35

Feminism never was great.

I've liked a lot of her work over the years, but she's trying to make feminism into something it never was and never will be. The vast majority of feminists won't listen to her. And why should they? They're getting their way without having to be fair to men and boys.

For example, feminists say they want to make leadership positions 50/50. They complain if they're not. But what happens if leaderships positions end up being 60/40 in favor of women? The feminists won't complain, just as they don't complain now that almost 60% of college students are women. They don't seek equality. They want everything to favor women.

Feminism needs to go the way of the dodo bird.

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Submitted by el cid on Wed, 2016-12-07 17:34