you, in the corner, SIT BACK DOWN.
4 Aug 2005 12:44 pmI've heard this comment before, even from a few women I've known personally, and it always puts me in the strange spot of not sure whether to laugh hysterically, smack the person, or just grab the woman's purse, snatch her wallet, tear up her driver's license, any credit cards in her own name, and her voter registration card. I'm sure you've heard the comment, at some point in your life:
I hate feminists.
Maybe we're a little unclear on the concept, people. To say, as a woman, in an industrialized society, that you hate feminists is sort of like... oh, I don't know. I can't even think of an analogy asinine enough to match it, let alone with the additional hypocrisy when spoken by a woman. Three words, and you, too, can reveal yourself as an mindless twit! Come on everyone, it's easy!
Get a grip and learn a little, because those words just demonstrate your ignorance. I say ignorance, because the popular notion bandied about at times, as implied by the explanations given by the same women speaking, usually carries a certain presumption of behaviors/values. They're all wrong, dead wrong; feminism is not a mono-culture. Feminism does not automatically mean MAN-HATING. It does not automatically mean ATHEIST. It is not equivalent to LESBIAN. It does not necessarily mean PRO-ABORTION. And no, it does not even require a belief that ALL PORN IS EVUUL.
The one element that drives all mainstream feminism, really, is simply: women are equal to men. So you know what that means, class? Men can be feminists, too. I've had the good fortune to know that every single lover I've ever had is a feminist, because every single one of them looked at me, at all women, and saw an equal.
( But that's okay! You can still hate feminists, but here's what I expect you to do... )
I hate feminists.
Maybe we're a little unclear on the concept, people. To say, as a woman, in an industrialized society, that you hate feminists is sort of like... oh, I don't know. I can't even think of an analogy asinine enough to match it, let alone with the additional hypocrisy when spoken by a woman. Three words, and you, too, can reveal yourself as an mindless twit! Come on everyone, it's easy!
Get a grip and learn a little, because those words just demonstrate your ignorance. I say ignorance, because the popular notion bandied about at times, as implied by the explanations given by the same women speaking, usually carries a certain presumption of behaviors/values. They're all wrong, dead wrong; feminism is not a mono-culture. Feminism does not automatically mean MAN-HATING. It does not automatically mean ATHEIST. It is not equivalent to LESBIAN. It does not necessarily mean PRO-ABORTION. And no, it does not even require a belief that ALL PORN IS EVUUL.
The one element that drives all mainstream feminism, really, is simply: women are equal to men. So you know what that means, class? Men can be feminists, too. I've had the good fortune to know that every single lover I've ever had is a feminist, because every single one of them looked at me, at all women, and saw an equal.
( But that's okay! You can still hate feminists, but here's what I expect you to do... )