- Share This Post
- Pin It
- 0
-
Sparkle (0)
So, what do I have against feminism, anyway? Well, nothing, per se. I mean, if you look at feminism as a movement seeking to ensure equal opportunities and rewards for everyone regardless of gender, what could possibly be wrong with that? And to be fair, I think a lot of the early feminists - female and male - had just such a concept in mind. I'm not so sure about the movement leadership at the time, but it doesn't really matter what their motives were at this point, does it? The point is moot. What's done is done.
Now we as U.S. citizens theoretically have equal access to the voting booth, education, and employment, among other things. Great! Again, whether exclusion from these things back in the day was on the basis of gender, economics, race, social status, or whatever other reason, it makes no difference now. Whether feminism is solely responsible for bringing those things about, creating a middle class, that doesn't really matter either. Those points are also moot. What's done is done.
I'm willing to concede that we wouldn't have those freedoms today had there never been a feminist movement. I think a strong case could be made against that position, but for the sake of argument, I'll concede it. So the movement accomplished what it purportedly set out to do. How marvelous! Crack open the bubbly, let's celebrate!
But wait.
Is there anyone still alive who was part of that original movement? A contemporary of Susan B.'s? Anyone who remembers a time when women (and most men, incidentally) couldn't vote? I doubt it. If there is, please accept my apologies for assuming you dead. But I really doubt it.
We got the vote in, what, 1920? That's 88 years ago, nearly a century! So what is feminism trying to accomplish now???? I say the push is now for special privileges for women, not equal opportunities. I say further that the new strategy, and one that has worked very well for nearly a century, is to get those special privileges by making women look like victims of society in general, and men in particular. Not only that, but to make it really effective, they have to convince the women themselves that they really are victims.
How do they go about it? They can't out and out lie, because that won't work at all. No, they have to come up with something people can relate to, something they can prove, and something that makes people react emotionally.
So if you can't lie, the only other alternative is to tell the truth. Ah, but it's all in the way you tell it. Only include the juicy parts. Include the stories about men beating up, raping, even killing their wives. Leave out the part about how the vast majority of men wouldn't dream of doing such a thing. Leave out the part about how the vast majority of men would like to see the perpetrators of such horror killed. Leave out the part about women beating up, raping, even killing their own children. It wouldn't be politically expedient to mention those parts of the truth, so we'll just leave those out.
And that is what I have against feminism. It's a big fat lie. The reality, whether any readers who call themselves feminist want to believe it or not, is not some pie-in-the-sky "equality". It's the elevation of one sex, by the demonization of the other. Kind of like the Nazi party elevated the Aryan race, by the demonization of the Jews. It was wrong then, and it's wrong now.
