
UK Guardian: 'Sexist feminism'
Article here. Excerpt:
'If a man – any man, apparently they're all the same – says he hates women, he's being sexist. But some women have no qualms about pigeonholing all men into one category of violent, abhorrent brutes and calling it feminism. And that's when feminism becomes nothing more than another form of sexism.
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Many people saw the backlash against Palin in terms of her sex. For example, the Guardian's Kira Cochrane said it was misogynist. Apparently, it's fine to say all men are rubbish, but if we criticise a woman, that's automatically deemed to be sexist, as if being female is some kind of "get out of jail free" card that excuses us from playing by the very rules we want men to keep.
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I'd like to think that 21st century feminism would advocate doing away with these narrow parameters and see people as people. When Stephanie Theobald wrote about tomboys, their mothers made comments such as: "In some ways, my daughter is very feminine – if there's a baby in the room she will pick it up and hold it so tenderly". If we want to achieve true equality, feminists need to stop categorising human traits as masculine or feminine. Feminists should be the last people doing this. We should be seeking to shatter all stereotypes, not cherry-picking the ones that suit us. Do that and you're not abolishing the patriarchy, you're becoming the very thing you are fighting against.'
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When feminists speak...
...I can't hear them.
There's a simple way to tell when a feminist is lying: her lips are moving.
I don't care what they're advocating, even if it is my own position. They've simply lost all credibility and I'm too old to let a media outlet's pet feminist lure me into the other half of the sucker punch that is sure to follow.
If you don't believe me, ask yourself this: why is she so certain of the moral and intellectual superiority of feminists in the last bit of the article?
Interesting, that. My advice? Duck - the punch will land soon enough, and given that women are responsible for most child abuse and domestic violence, we know that punching men and getting rewarded for it is something they're very good at.