"The End of Feminism"

Submitted by Mastodon on Mon, 2015-05-11 19:41

Article here. Excerpt:

'After writing my last blog, How We and Protein World Confuses Beauty with Fitness, I was contacted by a number of women saying how much they agreed. A number of them said to me "it's good to see a man who is a feminist". I told them all "I'm not a feminist, the post isn't about feminism and I don't agree with feminism". In my view, we are approaching the end of feminism.

I'll get straight to the point. The reason why I believe this is simple; feminism has managed to achieve a lot for women but the last final push to full equity between the sexes requires greater engagement from men and feminism is utterly unequipped to do this. This is because feminists require men to change according to how they believe men should be, rather than men looking over their weaknesses and developing a strategy to change themselves. If anything, men have been going in the wrong direction over the last 10 years in response to hardline feminism, which vilifies masculinity and blames failure to achieve equity on men's inability to feminise.
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Men, we have to stop this ladification, this mistreatment of women, this jealousy of their success. And women, you need to ditch feminism, this exclusive club created only for the betterment of women. If we all don't work hard to improve the masculine aspect of our society, we will be cursed with an ever increasing number of badly educated young men, angry at the world, taking it out on women, who are unable to find their place in society. We are destined for more divorces, more fatherless families and more men in prison.

So what do you truly want ladies? Feminism or a society in which men and women can achieve?'

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He's wrong. Between some participating in misandry in chunks were some decent points in this essay. But feminism's not going away. It's re-doubling its efforts on all fronts, or hasn't he been reading the news?

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Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2015-05-12 06:22

Actually, I think you are both right.

Yes, feminism is in danger of fracture. It only appears to be getting stronger. Io think we are in the moments before the brittle fracture.

Consider this news:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/13/movies/aclu-citing-bias-against-women-wants-inquiry-into-hollywoods-hiring-practices.html?hpw&rref=arts&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

Now feminist want to bring Civil Rights Violations against Hollywood.

Read the argument:
"of the top-grossing 100 films from 2013 and 2014, just 1.9 percent were directed by women."

Of course, the opposite could be true: "89.1 percent of the movies made by men were blockbusters."

I have a friend who is a dirctor. And he says that men have excellent spatial skills. He says the greatest scene in movies is the ride that Indiana Jones takes in the first movie: it is totally uncut. An unbroken sequence with a complete awarenss of space. My friend says that men are better at these massive action movies. He suggests that the day is passing for the blockbuster "intimate" movie based on feelings. He says women just cannot direct the type of blockbuster that Hollywood wants.

At one point, the article says "Putting more women behind the camera would be likely to shift the nature of Hollywood films. "

So, this means that we must change what the public wants to see. AS IF!

So let the ACLU bring charges... it will be fascinating how this plays out.
Let them sue the grand master chess championships for ha@ving no women, either
We'll see how this plays how.

In reality, feminists have pushed this right up against the wall. Yes some men got hurt by their sexism. My father was one who did. But their day is coming. They cannot maintain this nonsense much longer.

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Submitted by ThomasI on Tue, 2015-05-12 12:59

I wouldn't underestimate the power of feminists to influence the gov't's agenda. Look at what they've done in certain European countries: literally restricting voters' rights to select candidates via laws instituting quotas for parliamentary seats. Likewise for Bds. of Directors.

Precedent is established and firmly so permitting gov't's right to moderate, alter, interfere with, dictate, guide, discourage, and/or encourage all manner of states or activities private entities can be in or pursue. If gov't can set ethnicity and/or gender quotas for employers across the board, what's to stop them from doing same re who directs movies or what kinds get produced?

Feminists' MO is to get gov't to force into being that which they can't get ppl to do or want to do. I don't see what's stopping them here, too. The fact that they're down to complaining abt these kinds of things shows to me how much progress they've made in pursuing their agenda, not how desperate they've become. 30 yrs. ago, they never would've even tried. Now they feel confident enough to do so.

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Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2015-05-12 14:56

had my words deleted, again, as usual. happens often when you cut to the bone. and it only happens on web sites not liked by this administration, the big mack daddy of feminism and affirmative action.

we live in a world where it isn't important to excel, unless the right group excels.

we make movies the world loves, and then there was affirmative action. we once made a lot of things the world loved, then we quit trying to be the best, and just decided to be like the rest. same thing will happen here. take away the inherent quality that made it great and you are left w/ daytime soap operas made to resemble hit movies.

that's the problem w/ capitalism, it rewards the best the most.

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Submitted by daveinga on Tue, 2015-05-12 17:24

Every now and then, I try to see the other side. It's my nature.

Then I read this...

The fact that they're down to complaining abt these kinds of things shows to me how much progress they've made in pursuing their agenda, not how desperate they've become. 30 yrs. ago, they never would've even tried. Now they feel confident enough to do so.

And I agree. And I snap out of it. Thanks Matt!

In that spirit, Matt...

I hear the ACLU is now suing the NFL for not hiriing enough female quarterbacks.

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Submitted by ThomasI on Wed, 2015-05-13 13:01