Feminism isn't egalitarian

Popular male proverb (via our-lady-of-misandry)

Then the end scene is just letters. Saying

“NOT FAIR AT ALL IS IT.”

“SEXISM IS REAL”

“FIGHT FOR EQUALITY. KNOWLEDGE KILLS IGNORANCE.”

Then the end scene is just letter saying.

NOT FAIR AT ALL IS IT

SEXISM IS REAL

FIGHT FOR EQUALITY. KNOWLEDGE KILLS IGNORANCE

I want feminists to actually cry and realise just how bad men have it. It’s high time.

Now before you get your knickers in a twist, I agree there are plenty of issues that women face in society. These are wrong and need to be addressed. However men also have issues, which are of equal importance.

Gavin de Becker, The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence (via atomiste)

Female stalking is a prevalent issue also.

Many women choose different career paths, many women choose to become mothers and leave the workforce or work reduced hours.

Women who are willing to sacrifice family and either not have kids, or not see their kids much can become CEOs, women who are willing to work 60+ hours a week to climb their way to the top can become CEOs. Nothing is stopping them but their own choices.

These men had to make sacrifices too, many don’t get to see their kids often, put strain on their relationships or forgo meaningful relationships all together.

Disliking feminism does not equate to disliking women.

Feminism is not a good thing, at least not anymore. First and second wave feminism were great movements that made positive societal changes. Third wave feminism is a mess of a movement, that seeks to displace men rather than build women up. It wants to implement quotas ignoring the hard work put in by the individual just for the sake of equal representation.

I would be all for quotas for example, if they extended both ways. Can we have equal representation of women in other male dominated fields too, like sanitation, mining, manual labour and all of the other shit jobs men do just to make ends meet.

I feel sorry for your father, I am sure he thought he raised a considerate daughter who cared about people, instead he raised a whiny misandrist who wants to judge people based on their genitals and not their own individual merits.

Feminism is a confused mess of ideologies. Their are so many branches of feminism that all disagree with one another. The amount of not a true feminist accusations flying around from feminists is a good example of this.

The feminist movement is about elevating women, it is not a movement of reaching equality and if you believe otherwise you are blind and stupid. Look around at other feminists, look at the things being said and the condemnation of people.

I am sorry to break it to you, but feminism isn’t about equality anymore.

but i’m glad, @egalitarianism-101​, that you decided to comment on a post that was clearly meant to vent to my friends and followers and was in no way an open invitation for you to come and leave your opinion. 

it’s funny too because you also assume i am some newbie internet social justice warrior who has no idea what egalitarianism is. i’ve taken multiple classes where the idea has been discussed. i disagree with it. 

once again, you assumed a lot on a post that was clearly meant to vent.

regardless, we are not going to agree.  you will not convince me, you will not sway me. just as i will not sway you. you have a right to whatever kind of opinion you want, but please kindly get the fuck off my post.

I try not to assume anything, hence why I try to explain terminology. It is better to measure twice, cut once so to speak. I am going to go out on a limb here and assume these classes were liberal arts subjects of some description and not philosophy. (I am assuming here because well frankly I think philosophy is a little over your head).

As for disagreeing with egalitarianism, this speaks volumes. Clearly the equal rights for all people, is somehow wrong. I am sure you have some double think explanation, to reason it though.

As for not agreeing, you are probably right. You are a SJW, which basically throws logic and reasoning out the window and, I am a skeptic which would require you to make a logical argument or present valid evidence for your points, which lets be honest you wouldn’t.

The patriarchy must be pretty weak if a woman eating a cake can dismantle it. Stop slacking off my fellow patriarchs!!!! We cannot let this woman eat an ENTIRE CAKE, she’ll DISMANTLE the patriarchy!!!!

hi! as a disabled, mentally ill woman and a feminist i’m often saddened by the lack of resources geared towards us and the frequency with which we’re forgotten in feminist and general activist spaces.

this blog aims to combat this somewhat by creating a safe space for disabled and/or mentally ill women to access information, share their experiences and ask for support.

i will be making and reblogging posts geared towards and inclusive of our experiences in the hopes that they make someone’s day easier.

disability and mental illness are not the only marginalizations i face and i know how hurtful it can be to have one part of your identity invalidated in a space catering to another part. this blog will aim to be intersectional and welcoming to disabled and mentally ill women of colour, lbpq+ women, trans women or women otherwise marginalized on an axis other than disability/mental illness.

i’m also not interested in infighting between disabled women and mentally ill women or invisible and visible disabilities and mental illnesses.

this space will aim to be solely about bringing some much needed positivity and validation into our lives.

The feminist victim-hood shtick is getting a little too much for me to bear. Why do people want to separate themselves on something so banal as gender. There is a greater issue here, mental health and disability support, why diminish this by making it a women only issue, when we all know damn well it isn’t.

80% of disabled women have been sexually assaulted, 50% more than ten times

women experience more pain but have more trouble getting help for it than men

the way mental illness manifests itself and is (mis)treated by doctors varies between men and women

women are more likely to be forced into inhumane treatments such as electroshock therapy

women with disabilities face unique challenges from the medical system men never have to face especially when it comes to reproductive health care (forced sterilization being a big one but by far not the only one)

doctors are failing to diagnose women with certain conditions because how it manifests in men is treated as the default

disabled women are excluded from domestic violence bills

this is literally just a small sample lol

Separating yourselves based on your genitals and your differences rather than working together to fight the issue as a whole is counter productive to say the least. I am sure disabled men and men with mental health issues would agree with you and deplore the issues you face as much as I am sure you would feel the same way toward them.

hi! as a disabled, mentally ill woman and a feminist i’m often saddened by the lack of resources geared towards us and the frequency with which we’re forgotten in feminist and general activist spaces.

this blog aims to combat this somewhat by creating a safe space for disabled and/or mentally ill women to access information, share their experiences and ask for support.

i will be making and reblogging posts geared towards and inclusive of our experiences in the hopes that they make someone’s day easier.

disability and mental illness are not the only marginalizations i face and i know how hurtful it can be to have one part of your identity invalidated in a space catering to another part. this blog will aim to be intersectional and welcoming to disabled and mentally ill women of colour, lbpq+ women, trans women or women otherwise marginalized on an axis other than disability/mental illness.

i’m also not interested in infighting between disabled women and mentally ill women or invisible and visible disabilities and mental illnesses.

this space will aim to be solely about bringing some much needed positivity and validation into our lives.

The feminist victim-hood shtick is getting a little too much for me to bear. Why do people want to separate themselves on something so banal as gender. There is a greater issue here, mental health and disability support, why diminish this by making it a women only issue, when we all know damn well it isn’t.

Working together is more effective and creating in-groups and out-groups isn’t going to aid your cause. Elevating one voice at the cost of another isn’t going to aid your cause. Strength in numbers is powerful and the more voices supporting a movement the more likely change will come as a result.

I am so tired of feminism.

Not because I’m not a feminist.

I AM.

And not because I don’t want to empower women.

I DO.

It just seems that lately the conversation is a lot about who should be doing what, and while I believe we all wear different hats and have different roles in life, it feels to me like the purpose of the feminist movement is about giving us the choice to choose our roles.

It doesn’t mean we should all forget our manners. It doesn’t mean we should change our standards. I believe it means we should take people as they are, man and woman, and give people the opportunity to make their choices so they can be who they want to be.

And above all, we should offer kindness and love and focus on what’s important - which certainly isn’t who’s staying home with the kids or who’s fighting in the trenches or who’s holding the door for whom or who “wears the pants” or whose doing more work or whatever you want to make it about.

Let’s just support each other. Let’s be ourselves. Let’s work to our strengths to build the best teams, do the best jobs, and have the safest communities, and let’s support our daughters AND our sons and whatever paths they choose in life. Let’s teach our sons and daughters that it’s okay to go for whatever you want. Let’s also teach them that sometimes failure is a part of life and your gender has nothing to do with that - you just have to get up every time you fall down and you’ll be fine. Let’s teach our girls and boys to support and respect each other as WOMEN and MEN, not a blurred gender hell bent on one upping one another.

Unfortunately third wave feminism is no longer a movement. It is an ideology which has become poisoned. Feminism is unfortunately done, there is no big evil to fight now. They are small battles from a wide variety of sources and are not something a movement can combat. They focus on uplifting women at the expense of men, rather than working for true equality for all people.

I would suggest shrugging off the feminist label and moving toward egalitarianism, fighting for real equality for all people, not just one group over another.

Feminism diminishes men’s issues which are rarely addressed or taken seriously. Male homelessness rates, lack of support and shelters, custody laws and so forth are real issues. Instead feminists want to harp on about micro aggressions and cat calling, whilst ignoring much larger and prevalent issues. We live in a society where there are no rights that a man has that a woman doesn’t. However we do live in a society where there are rights that men are denied especially in regards to custody.

People are all welcome to fights for their rights. Have you actually taken the time to listen to what men’s rights activists are arguing for? They usually argue for equal rights to have equal access to their children after divorce proceedings or separation.

What it will take to overturn sexist high school dress codes

Most girls learn that women’s bodies are objectified and sexualized in a way that men’s simply are not as part and parcel of puberty. This past year, however, teens have been refusing to accept this sexist reality and are revolting by fighting the sexist school dress codes that reinforce this very concept.

Boy can’t wear skirts or blouses, however most schools allow girls to wear the boys uniform or a modified version. If you want to argue uniforms argue for equality not just girls uniforms which are far more flexible than boys.

Lastly explain to me how women are being objectified? Yes boys do see women as attractive, this is clearly normal behaviour. Our biological imperative is to breed, it would be weird is boys didn’t see women in a sexual manner.