Big Sister tells us about teaching feminism to boys: "...The feminist movement is about women finally taking control of the words–changing the language which imprisons us and anyone else who has been relegated to “minority” status throughout history..."

solinv · 2011-12-29T23:20:23+00:00

Yes, I tell him, women are different from men. Which, of course, must mean that they are “naturally” suited to the home and hearth. Oh, and while we’re on the subject of natural inclination, perhaps we can also agree that Native Americans are naturally inclined to be noble savages who are only able to realize their potential for civilization through the influence of white people. Oh, and black people are just naturally more physically powerful than white people, so why should we ignore their inherent potential for manual labor like cotton picking?

The straw-man! It burns!

2011-12-29T22:25:57+00:00

This actually kind of bothers me. I can see girls like her being the types to completely disregard the problems men face, and just respond with "WOMEN WERE OPPRESSED, SOME WOMEN IN PLACES LIKE IRAQ CANT EVEN VOTE" type things to "silence" them.

2011-12-29T23:09:20+00:00

Did I read that correctly?

A teacher had a sophmore in high school teach their senior level "advanced placement class" about feminism?

Holy shit, where to begin with all the things wrong there...

2011-12-30T02:16:41+00:00

This is merely an extension of the absurdity that is l'ecriture feminine. She is talking about forgoing logic and resorting to a type of Newspeak, wherein the process of identifying problems within our society clearly are replaced with words that are so vague-often rooted in 'feelings'-that they are practically quantum in nature, i.e. Patriarchy. It's much easier to wrangle control of a field of study and all that it entails when the language required to participate in discourse is so esoteric that to competently be able to engage in discussion requires such immersion in what often amount to fantasy viewpoints that most everyone would be indoctrinated in its line of thinking by the time they are able to by virtue of virtually no other politically popular viewpoints.

It is not surprising that many feminists are identified as 'spiritual, but not religious.' Feminism is very much a religion.

Ma99ie · 2011-12-29T22:15:33+00:00

Contrast and compare to Newspeak:

"...[a] deliberately impoverished language...a greatly reduced and simplified vocabulary and grammar...to make any alternative thinking—"thoughtcrime", or "crimethink" —impossible by removing any words or possible constructs which describe the ideas of freedom, rebellion and so on...."

fondueguy · 2011-12-30T18:18:30+00:00

Big Sister tells us about...

Women already had power in the home, why did society not address this imbalance?

Mothers Are the Most Responsible in Transferring of Sexist Attitudes, Study Suggests

mikesteane · 2012-01-02T08:23:45+00:00

I've just posted the following comment at the bottom of this piece: I’ve been thinking about this for a few days.

In particular, your reaction to the boy who points out that men and women are different. Leaving aside the professional ethics of insulting one of your “students” on a public forum, your answer is to set up a straw man:

Yes, I tell him, women are different from men. Which, of course, must mean that they are “naturally” suited to the home and hearth. Oh, and while we’re on the subject of natural inclination, perhaps we can also agree that Native Americans are naturally inclined to be noble savages who are only able to realize their potential for civilization through the influence of white people. Oh, and black people are just naturally more physically powerful than white people, so why should we ignore their inherent potential for manual labor like cotton picking?

He did not say anything about women being naturally suited to home and hearth. This was entirely your addition. Then you make a leap to talking about Native Americans and negroes with a similar assumption about how they are different to whites.

However, men and women are definitely different. Psychologically and physically. If not, why do so many feminists hate men exclusively? You simply refuse to deal with gender differences and ride roughshod over someone who merely raises the matter. There is a high price to pay for doing this.

Specifically, you are denying yourself the opportunity to make judgements based on reality, by making reality conform to your feminist agenda. In doing so, you are constructing an imaginary world in which to live. If you are lucky, the contradictions and absurdities of feminist dogma will slap you hard enough to bring you to your senses and you will then have the painful task of re-assessing your entire world view, not impossible at your age.

The denial of reality that is feminism is accurately described in the piece you quote: “During that era, we hadn’t developed much language to talk about the elimination of gender discrimination. What we sought to eliminate were the legal, social, psychological, economic and political limitations still being imposed on our human rights, and on our rights as citizens.”

The language feminism has developed is a language of obfuscation and misinformation. e.g. the use of the word “patriarchy” to blame everything you don’t like about yourselves on. (Make no mistake, feminist hatred of men is more often than not, self-contempt projected outwards.) e.g.2 The use of false statistics, such as the one-in-three rape lie and the “women only earn 70% of what men do for the same work” nonsense both of which continue to circulate despite having been well and truly debunked.

If you are unlucky, you will be able to force yourself to live in the denial of reality for much of your life. You will be unable to find out who you really are and will find yourself in middle age like most feminists: bitter, twisted, childless, unhappy and unloved. This does not mean that you will not harm others in passing, feminists have done a great deal of damage to society as a whole to both men and women. However

Cybercommie · 2012-01-09T17:09:42+00:00

Play the victim card why don't you....

2011-12-31T09:24:47+00:00

this is why we need all-boy schools with zero involvement by females

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