
If Feminists Like Women, Why Are They Constantly Trying To Change Us?
Article here. Excerpt:
'I like being a woman. I have never felt even remotely bad about being a female member of the species. Chalk it up to an adolescence miraculously devoid of the unrelenting glare of women’s magazines, a fantastic relationship with my supportive parents, or being born in the good ol’ United States of America, but I’ve always known that being a girl is pretty awesome.
And the only time it even occurs to me to feel bad about my sex is when feminists start telling me I’m doing everything wrong.
The most recent feminist triumph had nothing to do with advocating for the right of women to drive in Saudi Arabia or for the right to life of unborn children killed simply for the crime of being girls or any other such problem. It was a campaign organized by high-achieving and popular women such as Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg to, um, “ban” everyone else from using the word bossy. I already listed seven of the problems with this campaign (e.g. girls don’t need over-protection, victims of unduly assertive people need a word to use to combat bad behavior, not everyone’s a leader and it’s time to stop shaming people who aren’t.)
But one major problem with the campaign is that it has taken a word that wasn’t gender specific and made it into one. So in the name of feminism, we have forever joined the term “bossy” with “girl-trait” in everyone’s minds. What are you going to do for an encore, feminism?
In response to the campaign, Elle magazine came up with an even better idea: “While We’re Banning Stuff, Let’s Ban Sorry“:
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But I’m a proud issuer of apologies, when the time calls for it. And feminists can shove it up their freaking pie hole (not sorry!) if they have a problem with this. It’s called being courteous. And I wish more people would get over themselves and freely apologize when they’re inconveniencing someone. The problem with this world is not that we don’t have enough people apologizing for lack of courtesy.
Here’s the thing, though. Every time feminists come up with some campaign, isn’t it weird that it devalues female traits and identifies masculine measures as the ideal?'
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Amen!
Amen!