Meh. I used to be a feminist. But recently every feminist blog popping up in my stumbleupon is inventing problems that don't exist (heard of gaslighting anyone? That's right neither have I), bitching about sex in movies and crying "Objectification!" when a woman tries to express her sexuality, and demonizing men and exacerbating a small social issue into a giant fucking conspiracy.
I would say I support equal rights for women, as I support equal rights for men, children, queers, black brown purple alien cow midgets. Equal rights means everyone, we're all just humans.
But modern feminists have the biggest stick up their asses that I have ever seen.
I almost want to steal this for myself. Thank you. True feminism was about the right for females to have the same freedoms as men, not to berate them and do as you stated. Every feminist blog I have read seems as if it was written by what I would see in real life as a whiny, immature and childish bitch.
Pretty much. I read this big thing about how "PMS is a myth". Looked at the study they cited. Statistic from the study read: 86% of women experience some symptoms of PMS, only 5% of women experience severe symptoms. The paper took the 5% statistic and only used that to "prove" that PMS was false.
I've read that one, they said PMS objectified women. =.= Next they're going to try to prove that women don't get hormonal and emotional during pregnancy.
Honestly, I was almost drawn away to the entire idea of feminism through my initial research when I came across pages requesting that all women withhold sex from their partners until such and such anniversary is over and so on.
I can easily see how anyone would be taken aback by feminism upon initial research, many mainstream feminist groups are built on ideals like "PMS is a myth that makes women look weak", and testicles are a myth too, that's why men cry when they are kicked. Next?
A lot of people miss the point about objectification of women. If some lady wants to be sexy that's perfectly fine. But when people actually literally are portraying women as objects it's bothersome. Like the famous heineken:keg superbowl commercial that portrayed a woman a beer keg. The recent Fiat Abarth 500 commercial showed a woman as a car saying things like "You'd like to own me, wouldn't you?" How can these companies say they're not objectifying women? Cars and Kegs are objects but women aren't.
But this post isn't even about feminist issues it's about feminist writers.
The only feminist writers I know are the ones I see doing online journalism, hence my comment. Never read any of the books they listed or any feminist books at all, having been so turned off by the movement.
Indeed, just trying to share what experience I had. :P Hmm, I'm not sure particularly, but I can probably find some of the articles if I go do a search real fast.
This is the one NeuroNeptunian and I were talking about.
http://therottenlittlegirls.com/2009/02/23/debunking-the-pms-myth/
That group does some ridiculous stuff.
http://thecurrentconscience.com/blog/2011/09/12/a-message-to-women-from-a-man-you-are-not-%E2%80%9Ccrazy%E2%80%9D/
And this one more recently.
I did remember I got one feminist book in college that was pretty good, called The Beauty Myth.
I've never liked a single piece of feminist literature I've read
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Meh. I used to be a feminist. But recently every feminist blog popping up in my stumbleupon is inventing problems that don't exist (heard of gaslighting anyone? That's right neither have I), bitching about sex in movies and crying "Objectification!" when a woman tries to express her sexuality, and demonizing men and exacerbating a small social issue into a giant fucking conspiracy.
I would say I support equal rights for women, as I support equal rights for men, children, queers, black brown purple alien cow midgets. Equal rights means everyone, we're all just humans.
But modern feminists have the biggest stick up their asses that I have ever seen.
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I almost want to steal this for myself. Thank you. True feminism was about the right for females to have the same freedoms as men, not to berate them and do as you stated. Every feminist blog I have read seems as if it was written by what I would see in real life as a whiny, immature and childish bitch.
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Pretty much. I read this big thing about how "PMS is a myth". Looked at the study they cited. Statistic from the study read: 86% of women experience some symptoms of PMS, only 5% of women experience severe symptoms. The paper took the 5% statistic and only used that to "prove" that PMS was false.
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I've read that one, they said PMS objectified women. =.= Next they're going to try to prove that women don't get hormonal and emotional during pregnancy.
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I've actually heard that argument before -_-
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Honestly, I was almost drawn away to the entire idea of feminism through my initial research when I came across pages requesting that all women withhold sex from their partners until such and such anniversary is over and so on.
I can easily see how anyone would be taken aback by feminism upon initial research, many mainstream feminist groups are built on ideals like "PMS is a myth that makes women look weak", and testicles are a myth too, that's why men cry when they are kicked. Next?
A lot of people miss the point about objectification of women. If some lady wants to be sexy that's perfectly fine. But when people actually literally are portraying women as objects it's bothersome. Like the famous heineken:keg superbowl commercial that portrayed a woman a beer keg. The recent Fiat Abarth 500 commercial showed a woman as a car saying things like "You'd like to own me, wouldn't you?" How can these companies say they're not objectifying women? Cars and Kegs are objects but women aren't.
But this post isn't even about feminist issues it's about feminist writers.
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The only feminist writers I know are the ones I see doing online journalism, hence my comment. Never read any of the books they listed or any feminist books at all, having been so turned off by the movement.
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Well there is a difference between online journalism and literature. Can I ask which bloggers turned you off from the movement?
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Indeed, just trying to share what experience I had. :P Hmm, I'm not sure particularly, but I can probably find some of the articles if I go do a search real fast.
This is the one NeuroNeptunian and I were talking about.
http://therottenlittlegirls.com/2009/02/23/debunking-the-pms-myth/
That group does some ridiculous stuff.
http://thecurrentconscience.com/blog/2011/09/12/a-message-to-women-from-a-man-you-are-not-%E2%80%9Ccrazy%E2%80%9D/
And this one more recently.
I did remember I got one feminist book in college that was pretty good, called The Beauty Myth.
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Thanks for showing me those. Yeah those articles seem more like the belong in a Cosmo than a Times, pretty bad stuff.
"But modern feminists have the biggest stick up their asses that I have ever seen"
That's because they're all ugly lesbians.
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You are so humorously offensive. XD
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It's not meant to be funny, i'm serious.
"purple alien cow midgets"
Lmao