The Farce of Feminism

	posted by Nightmist on Monday October 22, @10:44AM from the inequality dept.
	This editorial in Harvard University's Harvard Crimson laments the modern face of feminism, pointing out that while the movement once had a noble cause--equality--it is now simply a means for women to paint themselves as victims. The author also points out that modern feminism results in discrimination against men by women. It's an interesting read, and there's a bonus: the author is female.

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Whipping girls by Hawth on Monday October 22, @04:20PM EST (#1) (User #197 Info) ...the movement marginalizes women by reminding them constantly of their former subservient status and instilling in them at a very young age a dependency on the support of other women and on feminism to "survive" in a horribly male-dominated world. Indeed, the young women and girls of generations to come will be fortunate if they never have to grapple with the disturbing suggestion that any significant political, economic and social gains made by women since the 20th century might not have been possible without artificial props, semi-holidays, and a tight noose around the collective neck of their "opponents" in the gender war. Too bad it may be too late to spare young men and boys from having to confront a similarly depressing possibility. If the feminist propoganda saturating the classrooms and the media instills in girls an inferiority complex about their capability, then just what kind of complex does it instill in boys about their culpability? How are boys dealing with the not-so-subtle intimation that their gender has been so unfairly and gluttonously propped up and overrated for several thousand years that women have suffered brutally for the crime of not being born members of it? How are they dealing with the insinuation that such historical trailblazers as Alexander Graham Bell, Albert Einstein and Abraham Lincoln might have been beaten to the punch in their achievements by women if females had not been relegated to "the kitchen" for most of history? How are they coming to terms with the claim that their gender's swinish and superficial beauty standards are driving thousands of women to kill themselves slowly as anorexics and bulemics? I suppose only time, a menagerie of self-hating diatribes on the evils of men from the likes of Ashley Montagu to Alan Alda to John Lennon to Alice Cooper to (heh) Stacey Jones of American Hi-Fi as well as numerous male editorial columnists - and a steadily ascending male suicide rate - will tell. God forbid a future generation of women and girls might have to suffer the same.

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