Julie Bindel: "Women, face it: marriage can never be feminist"

Submitted by Mastodon on Mon, 2016-05-30 21:00

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'The institution of marriage has curtailed women’s freedom for centuries, says Julie Bindel. So why are so many feminists trying to reclaim the tradition as a subversive act? If you want to get married, she says, just get on with it - but please don’t pretend that being a feminist changes its meaning.

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Feminist research fellow: Put all men ‘in some kind of camp’

'In an interview with the website radfem collective, founder of the group Justice for Women and research fellow at the University of Lincoln Julie Bindel says that she would “put … all [men] in some kind of camp where they can all drive around in quad bikes, or bicycles, or white vans.”'

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If women want to live alone and perhaps have children "alone," they can provide for themselves and their children all by themselves. Men can then live care-free bachelor lives and enjoy a diverse sexual life. Men today have more reasons not to get married than to get married.

It doesn't quite work out this way, of course. One is that many women will end up on welfare, supported by the taxpayers. And, two, the state still wants to turn men into criminals and go after them for child support to support the women. Without those two, being a single mom is pretty tough.

In the long run, however, marriage benefits women more than men--which is why men are usually more reluctant to tie the knot. But if women don't marry, men will be bachelors. Which, in many ways, is an easier life for the man than marriage. Yet people freak out when men start "going their own way." But if women don't marry, there's no other possible role for men except bachelorhood.

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Submitted by el cid on Wed, 2016-06-01 13:33