hypo, do you think women can not be misogynistic? Have you heard of Ann Coulter or Phyllis Schlafly?
You are not "gender blind" - you are presuming that your perspective is the "neutral" "unbiased" perspective, which is a bias itself.
Hundreds of women, all white, mostly middle class and largely from academia, assured us that they had the solutions to all our problems. My problem as I saw it, was that I had recently moved into Hammersmith and was suffering from a great deal of isolation. I supposed that the women's movement was geared towards helping women, like myself, at home with small children, to learn to reach out to others in our communities.
Secularism has a history of being white, middle class and academically based. Does that make it a bad idea? Why don't you rail against secularism?
Feminism is the radical notion that women are people, that is all, on its fundamental level. That means they get to make choices, and mistakes, and accomplishments just like men do. Why this notion is so threatening to some people is baffling.
Useless to protest that my husband paid our mortgage and enabled me to stay at home full time to be with my two small children. I was howled down and ridiculed. Within a matter of months after that first conference the subject of women's liberation had become so fashionable that very few women would dare even suggest that they were happy to be at home and even less likely to admit that they were happily married.
Oh yes and this old fogey's personal anecdotal experience invalidates all that feminists have achieved for women, men and children.
Some newspapers, through their women's pages, and virtually all magazines carried their new 'deal' for women. Marriage and family life were little more than gulags where women languished, forced to service the bestial needs of men. Women, in this brave new world, were now fueled with the information that women's sexual needs, denied them for so many generations by selfish and controlling men, were now paramount.
Guess what, they were gulags for many women. Just because some women were happy with sugar daddies or were lucky to end up with decent men, does not mean all were (or are in modern states with little or no gender equality).
Overnight the roles changed and men no longer were the pursuer but became the pursued.
Oh how awful for these laziest women to not be treated as property that can be bought, sold, exchanged. Cry me a river.
The pill took care of any consequences and old fashioned morality was thrown on the scrap heap.
As is too often the case with ex-muzzie men
, if this is the attitude you continue to have after you've apostated, you may as well have remained muslim.
Chivalry towards women by men was met with sullen rudeness and men began to feel the chill wind of universal female dislike.
Aww boo hoo grandma. How about chivalry that goes both ways? What happens if a woman holds a door for a man? Does the fucking universe collapse on itself?
Maleness became radically unfashionable. Little boys were to be brainwashed into abandoning their traditional games and toys and encouraged to adopt 'femaleness.' Men were to be redesigned and repackaged into 'new men.'
Yes how awful that gender roles were questioned at all. Tsk tsk tsk.
Many men, at first, responded with cries of delight.
Oh FFS. No they did not. Read some actual history.
Blinded by lust and the lure of relationships without any responsibility, many men fully concurred with the women's movement. Slowly, as women moved into positions of power, men began to feel the iron fist of the women's movement on their backs.
Yes it was so much better when only men could fist women and men. How dare women want any respect, autonomy, power-sharing or equality in any domain whatsoever??!
Publicly derided as useless, feckless idle wasters, men have retreated into their holes to lick their wounds.
No that's only happening to the men who want a license to be assholes with no repercussions.
A generation of young men in their early twenties is now adrift in a sea of misandry. They are regularly exposed as less able than their sisters and pilloried as academic failures by the press.
Right... that's why the proportion of male students in the highest paying fields of science and engineering keeps increasing or has stayed the same. More bullshit... this granny's supersizin' it.
No wonder they turn to mental illness, suicide and drugs. Their feminist mothers, in many cases with multiple sexual partners, have abandoned their role as care givers.
LOL. Yes it's perfectly okay for their daddies to be screwin' their secretaries. It's only mommy's sex that should remain pure. How Freudian
Children come home to empty rooms, empty fridges and no warmth. These are the children of the 'nobody home' generation.
Yeah that's called a capitalist world economy where everyone needs to work just to be able to survive, you privileged bitch.
The feminist movement decreed that all women must enter the work force and hand their young children over to the care of the 'mother' state.
It was sooo much better when "women's work" was unpaid and subsidized capitalist industrialization so that men could bring home the bacon while women got shit for all they did. Now these broads want equal pay, equal rights, WTF? They oughta know their place, right, hypo?
As the divorce rates soar, men refuse to make any commitment that ties them to women who, when they are bored with the relationship, will boot the men out and keep the money and the children.
Aww poor victimized men. Boo hoo. Cause yeah women on men violence, and exploitation is soooooo much more than male-perpetuated violence and exploitation of women.
Can't be bothered with the rest. You have a tendency for hyperbole and polemicism, hypo, but this article was really beneath what I think is your level of intelligence.
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