Feminist Being Funny

BinaryShadow · 2012-05-06T10:56:16+00:00

1 If you want to see real oppression, go to the Middle East.

The strawman implies that we should forget ALL issues with women here because of the Middle East having it worse. Isn't that the same shit feminists throw at MRA's because we apparently have it better than them anyway so we should ignore all our own problems?

2 How can women expect us to respect them when they won’t respect themselves?

Asking women to respect themselves in order to ‘earn’ the right to be treated like a human being is total horseshit.

Yet we're always asked to "man up" or respect ourselves (or more importantly, women). We need to be fulfilling our roles. We need to sign up for the draft in order to get the same rights you do for simply being a woman. But god forbid we throw a little responsibility on the woman for anything. That's just oppression.

3 Stop criticizing domestic servitude! Some women are proud to look after their families.

The thing is, women can choose those things if they want to. There’s nothing more tedious than the status quo trying to pit stay-at-homes against workforce broads. But the fact is, these people aren’t advocating for or defending a range of choices. How do I know that? Because if they were, we wouldn’t even be having this conversation.

How do you know that? Because if you did you would realize that the only ones trying to put women in their place and kill their choice is you. By wanting them to go to work instead of being "oppressed."

4 It’s a science thing

“Look, men and women are built differently. It’s biological. Men are more visual, women are more emotional. That’s why more men are in executive roles. It’s about merit. If women were better, they wouldn’t be so crap. I didn’t make the rules.”

Nice strawman. Completely misses the point. Feminists love using "science" and "biology" when it suits them. How many times have we heard that women should lead because they are less "violent" as a gender? Or handwaving the anti-male school atmosphere as "well just girls are better than boys at it."

5 Men are oppressed too, therefore women aren’t! Or something.

Followed by the "What about the menz" stretched out into three paragraphs.

To be more specific, women who agitate for their own liberation are only allowed to do so once they’ve fixed all the things that make men sad, thus making them stronger and even more powerful.

Projection. I've heard the opposite from feminists so many times it hurts my head to recall all of them. We need to forget ANYTHING and EVERYTHING happening to men until every single issue facing women is solved. Even the issues that aren't really systematic but based on choices. And the goal-post has been moved further and further back.

burritosandbeer · 2012-05-06T12:18:50+00:00

If you want to see real oppression, go to the Middle East.

If I had a nickel every time I heard this when someone mentions MGM here in the west...

How can women expect us to respect them when they won’t respect themselves?

No man or woman will be respected until they respect themselves. Also: lack of respect =/= rape

Stop criticizing domestic servitude! Some women are proud to look after their families.

Some women are proud to look after their families in the home. So are some men. Honestly, any view besides "team up to raise your children the best you know how" is insanity.

It’s a science thing

Now she's cherry picking arguments. I've not met one person who is aware of our biological nature that says "No, women shouldn't be on top, specifically because of their vaginas."

What the biological differences between man and woman do for us is help to explain why we are tailored for the things we are. It doesn't offer any kind of moral or societal code for it, and if anybody lets the world at large decide their entire life for them, they're only half human anyway.

Men are oppressed too, therefore women aren’t! Or something.

Once again, if I had a nickel...

Sidenote: if anyone wants to explain to me why my list says 1,1,1,1,1, I'll be much obliged, as i typed them 1-5.

HolyCounsel · 2012-05-06T06:46:54+00:00

The only biological difference between a man and a woman is the difference of a Y chromosome – and even then, there’s a bit of wiggle room.

OK, I get the first part. Classic Feminist who denies any biological difference in the sexes - just ignore the penis and tits and such, and declare all gendered behaviour as cultural and therefore "fixable".

But what is the author wiggling? The sex chromosomes?

ZimbaZumba · 2012-05-06T03:42:32+00:00

I don't think she is kidding, and frankly the article is a hay stack of straw men.

Looking at the comments though I'd say the women have the men in Australia well whipped into shape, so much for the image of 'Crocodile Dundee' and 'Steve Irwin The Crocodile Hunter'. I think the Anti-male bubble is about to burst in N. America but is still to reach its peak is Australia & N.Z. Best of luck guys.

NativeKing · 2012-05-06T06:56:27+00:00

Her last argument was flawed, it's not that MRAs believe that women are not oppressed, it's that men are too. MRAs support EQUALITY.

Ghee_Buttersnaps_ · 2012-05-06T05:44:58+00:00

Even if this wasn't satire, I was still laughing my ass of reading this. Are these things feminists really think we say?

2012-05-07T06:21:58+00:00

"The only biological difference between a man and a woman is the difference of a Y chromosome – and even then, there’s a bit of wiggle room."

I'd like to arm wrestle her over this gem.

2012-05-07T06:27:22+00:00

Can we please cut and paste text for these? As a fellow professional writer she is deliberately trolling to get our page views. They are her currency and we keep feeding the machine.

ThePigman · 2012-05-06T03:17:43+00:00

At least i assume she's kidding.

Title	Feminist Being Funny
Author	ThePigman
Upvotes	17
Comments	18
Date	May 6, 2012 3:17 AM UTC (14 years ago)
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