How To Teach Boys To Be Feminists

Article here. Excerpt:

'As a young man:

  • Teach them that “feminism” means promoting women’s rights and interests.
  • Discuss how being a feminist does not mean women hate men or that women think men are the enemy.
  • Teach them that by taking a role in feminism they will be helping everyone, not just women.
  • Teach them that because they are at the top of society’s hierarchy, they have a responsibility and an ability to be part of social change and justice for everyone.
  • Simply talk to them and use probing questions when teachable moments arise. Allow them to reach their own conclusions.'
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    How are young men at the top of society's heirarchy?

    They earn less, suffer more unemployment, drop out of education in greater numbers, are more likely to be imprisoned. Some "advantages" these are.

    This article says feminism is about promoting women's rights and interests. Well here's me thinking it was all about equality. "Promiting women's rights and interests" is exactly what feminism has been doing for 40+ years. How exactly is feminism good for men?

    It says women who are feminist don't think men are the enemy. Well I wonder. Increasingly I think women are the enemy. And it's time men started thinking like that.

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    "Teach them that “feminism” means promoting women’s rights and interests."
    Yes, but not the rights and interests of children and men. Neither children nor men have any rights or interests in a feminist world.

    "Discuss how being a feminist does not mean women hate men or that women think men are the enemy."
    No, that's exactly what feminism teaches: hatred for men and treating men as the enemy.

    "Teach them that by taking a role in feminism they will be helping everyone, not just women."
    No, they will only help women. No one else will be helped. Feminism is an entitlement program for women based on the hatred of men and the disposability of children.

    "Teach them that because they are at the top of society’s hierarchy, they have a responsibility and an ability to be part of social change and justice for everyone."
    Yes, a few elite men are at the top, but most are not and live by the rules made by the elite few. And the elite few serve mostly women, not men. I believe in social justice for everyone, including men. Feminists believe in social justice for women only--which results in social injustice.

    "Simply talk to them and use probing questions when teachable moments arise. Allow them to reach their own conclusions.'"
    A teachable moment: A boy turns 18 and must register for the draft. His girlfriend doesn't have to. If he doesn't register, he'll have a hard time getting student loans. No concern for her. So what does this man conclude from this? That women are oppressed? Or that men have obligations women do not?

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    That's right, indoctrinate the boys into feminist ideological dogma when they are children. That way, they will have a cognitive belief structure that will cause them pain and distress all their lives, as what the women have inculcated into them comes into conflict with their everyday lived reality. Those who don't commit suicide from this forced indoctrination will live lonely, painful, miserable lives. Every bit of suffering for men is a victory for feminism.

    Actually, attractive white women are at the top of the social hierarchy.

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    What most men don't appreciate is that they are still, even after they have grown old, unconsciously trying to please their mothers, except that process has now been transferred from the mother, onto girlfriends, wives, and other women. Mothers are in an extraordinary position, as the primary caregiver of boys, a place where they have profound influence on the gender expectations and gender viewpoints of males. Feminism teaches women to abuse this position of great power, to further aggrandize women. This can only backfire in the long run, and feminists are making fools of themselves these days left and right. This blog post by Michele Yulo is one case in point. She is teaching her son to be illogical, prejudiced, and self-sacrificing. That doesn't sound like good parenting to me.

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