[While I’m aware this is a troll ask, I’d still like to point out something here.]
I think you’d be hard pressed to find as many women willing to do a lot of the crap jobs that allow the rest of us to live our lives comfortably. I don’t see many “feminists” fighting for the right to inspect sewers, mine coal, or pick up roadkill.
I’ve always found it interesting that you see “feminists” whining about “lack of representation”, but only in the fields that are desirable.
True equality means accepting the bad along with the good.
This also means that women who abuse, sexually assault, and murder other human beings of any age should receive the same treatment and penalty that a man would.
It means paying the same rates for insurance.
It means accepting the idea of paying for your own meal on a date.
Gender equality is not equality if you only want the aspects that are convenient and favorable to you. And if this is the kind of “gender equality” that you preach, you’re not a feminist. You’re just a spoiled ████.
Tag: Feminist
i noticed everyone else was doing feminist ponies so i decided to do some of my own
crushing misogynistic stereotypes with a finger and a smile ( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/girls-and-software
This is more programming related than art related, but it’s a fantastic article written by a female programmer detailing a LOT of issues with sexism in general, and how many attempts at correcting gender bias actually make it worse, especially in the technology sector.
My favorite quote is probably this paragraph:
Do not punish the men simply for being here. ‘Male privilege’ is a way to say ‘you are guilty because you don’t have boobs, feel ashamed, even if you did nothing wrong’, and I’ve wasted too much of my time trying to defend good guys from it.
Feminism: The movement focused on improving and protecting women’s rights, ideally to point where they are equal to that of men’s.
Femi-nazism: The movement focused on taking away men’s rights to the point of reducing their social status to below women’s.
Okay I know there are people out there who call themselves feminists who genuinely believe that what they’re doing is right, who genuinely believe that they are supporting equality, these people aren’t stupid, but they are misguided.
Feminism as a whole has been broken and corrupted to the point of being worse than useless. Focusing on one gender over the other is counter-productive, sexism affects everyone, stop pretending that it only affects women; every example of sexism affects both genders. for example the sexist idea that women are weaker than men, not only is this unfair to women who are strong (who may not be taken seriously), but also to men who are weak (they will be made fun of because they are ‘supposed’ to be strong, ever heard of “Haha- you got beaten by a girl”, which I sometimes hear even from the same people who say we shouldn’t assume women are weak).
Even if an example of sexism affects one gender more than the other- that is a pointless argument, we should acknowledge it as everyone’s problem, only then can we overcome gender issues; even the name feminism is sexist because it priorities one gender over the other, if we have to call ourselves something (which is unnecessary) we can call ourselves ‘Humanists’ and fight for universal rights for the human race.
Feminism is stupid and outdated, but not every feminist is stupid (like I said, more misguided).
If you want more information on gender issues I refer you to this playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhZOzU5WE3iHiR-4XYE58HQxtwpAfrnyX
“Trying to solve gender issues with feminism is like trying to perform surgery with a chainsaw”
-TJ Kirk (heavily paraphrased)
Your choice of words is a tad harsh and a bit over-generalized, I believe—but you make some strong points regardless.
I hereby award masochistprincessterumi 1000 units of This.
Hm… humanism is more of a rejection of faith and doctrine; I think egalitarianism is what you’re looking for.