Summary: The whole point of Feminism is to listen more to what women have to say. No one has listened to them, for thousands of years. After all, they ONLY just got the right to vote. It couldn't have been because women supported having the man represent the vote of the house. It must've been a trick! They want a voice at the table, that had previously been denied!

But turns out that's just a tactic. A reframe of history. Feminism exists because the tactic of guilt and shame works.


Body: Imagine a child saying "take me seriously!" And as a parent, you capitulate. After all, you love the child. Deeply. And want the child to be happy. Sure, it seems like the bad choice to you. But you're just the parent. What do you know? Do you know better? Maybe things are different now than when you were younger. You don't want to seem closed minded.

Great news though - you actually DO know better! Do you know why? Because you're an adult. And the thing that seems obviously correct is, in fact, obviously correct.

Don't be fooled by the children. It's a trick. Doesn't end well for the parent. And you look bad to the other parents for letting your child run wild.


Coming from the deep blue pill, I took feminist classes in college. I'm a leader, and a new kind of leader with progressive ideas. Feminism did a great job of fucking with my head about what was attractive (the advice was the opposite of course, h/t Clown World).

One of the more interesting debates of the class was the Middle East Feminism Paradox. Leading US women went to the middle east in the 1970s and started putting together all women groups. They would meet together, talk about the problems they had about being oppressed, and clearly would fight for their rights.

This was the narrative of the western women.

However, when the women got together and started talking, all of the ideas were "Here's how to put in more rules for yourself." "Here's how to be a better supporter for your husband." "Here's how to make sure your daughters remain faithful."
The American women were appalled. Don't you see? The men here have you trapped?! You need to get out. Start dressing up in public. Start taking control of your own lives! But the Muslim women demurred. That wasn't how to live a better life as they saw it. They kind of pitied American women... After a decade or so, American women left, defeated. The women here were so enslaved they forgot how to be free. Clearly they don't know what's in their own best interest.

But what if they did? What if they understood their own nature better than American women? What if they understood that a connection with a higher power through Faith was more appealing than leading a hedonistic lifestyle? What if they found living life like that more fun than what American women were offering?


Even as a feminist, I knew women shit tested. Make sure you're the man and confident. But what if it ALL was a shit test? That was too big of an idea for me. The idea that ALL advice I'd ever heard from women about dating was a lie? Because they don't know what turns them on? That was way too big of an idea for me.

But that's the case. It's ALL a shit test. See who falls for the trick of Feminism. Use some guilt and words like oppressed to get me to listen. Well done ladies. Well done.


Lesson: Feminism is NAWALT. But, in fact, AWALT. Great trick.