"Why Understanding The UK Anti-Feminist Movement Is Vital To Countering The Far Right"

Submitted by Mastodon on Thu, 2019-02-21 18:29

Article here. Excerpt:

'“Feminists attack liberty, justice, equality and meritocracy. They attack men, women, and children, and relations between the sexes,” so declared British anti-feminist activists in a 2018 online statement.

Its signatories included key UK far-right vlogger Paul Joseph Watson, Breitbart London writer James Delingpole and Valerie Price, National Director of ACT! For Canada (which is tied to the major US anti-Muslim organisation, ACT! For America). The statement’s impact was nonetheless negligible; exemplifying the marginal nature of organised anti-feminist politics in the UK.

But the operative word there, however, is ‘organised’. Recent events and a glance across thecontemporary far-right landscape will find many voices who share this conspiratorial and hostile view of feminism. Whilst this is not new, HOPE not hate’s newly-released State of Hate report explores how the UK anti-feminist movement is trying to mobilise this support and the role of a particular online community in this.

Far-right movements have long held sexist, misogynist and anti-feminist views. Yet, in a pronounced way, for elements of the contemporary far right these ideas are not merely a result of their wider political outlook but rather a central pillar of their ideology (in some cases alongside disavowals of other bigotries).'

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... leads to defeat. :) The anti-feminist movement, or the MRM (2 diff things) is NOT a far right ideology. If anything I'd typify it as "liberal", but not in the "liberal progressive" sense. "Liberal" ideas are ideas that are expansive in terms of how they view the dissemination of rights and power in society, vs. restrictive or in this context, "conservative" (eg: monarchicalism would be "conservative" in that it would advocate for restricting power to a single authority, the monarch, thus be a *conserving* of power to a less-expansive state than it now is in).

The MRM is quite liberal in the sense that it wants to see true equality of the sexes vs. the ersatz kind of equality that modern feminism espouses. Actually modern feminism can be considered more conservative in that it wants power less distributed but instead concentrated in the hands of half the pop'n, or I should say, in the upper 10% class-wise of half the pop'n: upper-middle-class and higher-classed women.

Taking a more liberal set of ideas (the MRM, anti-feminism) and saying they are part of a more conservative ideology (white nationalism, which seeks to concentrate power in the hands of whites vs. non-whites) is completely mixing up who your opponents are, IF you are truly seeking an expansion of power for all in society.

Feminism has an enemy in white nationalism not because feminism is liberal while white nationalism is conservative. Both are conservative vis-a-vis power in society. They differ on exactly WHO gets the power. WN seeks to concentrate power into the hands of whites, esp. white men, esp. white men of higher class, whereas feminism seeks to concentrate power into the hands of women, mostly women of the upper class sector, ostensibly regardless of race (though I have my doubts about that).

Of course since the MRM/anti-feminism is liberal while feminism is conservative, they are naturally at odds. So really feminism is at odds with a lot of things, including both WN and anti-feminism/the MRM. However they err in seeing the two different things as being one in the same or even as aids to one another. They are not. They are in fact as much at odds with each other as is feminism to the MRM/anti-feminism.

Failing to correctly perceive your opponents and to deal with them in a realistic way is a potential fatal mistake. Feminism has been making a fair number of these for some time now but as movements go, it's like a dragon with many arrows in it. It'll take a lot of arrows to bring the beast down.

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Submitted by Matt on Thu, 2019-02-21 19:02

This article really shows how introspective and insular the feminist bubble has become at Huff-n-puff.
Being called an MRM isn't an insult. It's recognition of the growing mens right movement. A popular movement experiencing rapid growth in response to an increasingly hate filled and ideological driven push from leftist academia into mainstream policy.
More and more of the silent majority are starting to speak up against radical feminism and fewer and fewer women are identifying as feminists.

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Submitted by rabel111 on Thu, 2019-02-21 22:45