Feminism cost women their jobs.

DigitalisEdible · 2018-01-31T00:35:05+00:00

There was a discussion about this on Radio 2’s Jeremy Vine show yesterday. If you’re not aware of the show, it’s a hot-topic discussion program where the presenter (Jeremy Vine) mediates a discussion between two guests with opposing viewpoints.

For this one, he had one of the “walk out girls” defending her choice of career, and a feminist telling another woman how to live her life.

There were shades of the JP - Cathy Newman debate to this, with the feminist coming across as completely unhinged to the point where it became a bit cringeworthy. The darts girl said it was a job she loved doing, it pays well, it’s not demeaning and she’s never asked or forced to do anything she doesn’t want to do, and she gets to look stunning each night and walk on stage in front of an adoring audience.

Feminist girl was then given her turn to respond, and immediately launched in to an angry diatribe about “we’re women thank you very much, not girls” blah blah. I’m not sure if these modern feminists are even capable of critical thinking, it’s so predictable. She then spent the rest of her time trying to tell an adult women that she’s not allowed her own free choice in life. Darts girl asked the feminist what her job was, feminist say she would rather not disclose that information. When pressed by the presenter, she sheepishly said she was a yoga instructor.

Feminism isn’t coming across well in public debates, it’s almost as if their talking points don’t hold up to scrutiny. Can’t help but wonder if they’ll close ranks and stop participating in public forums where they have to defend their ideology, because they seem entirely incapable of doing so.

Are there even any intellectual feminists out there? Because all I ever see is people who graduated from Tumblr University, they all sound the same, present the same straw man arguments and sound bytes, and cannot defend their position when called upon. They don’t appear to be well-read and seem to get their information from tweets. The only logical conclusion I can draw is that they’re all full of shit. Anita Sarkeesian, Cathy Newman, etc. I cannot respect the intelligence of these people, it’s like listening to a teenager arguing with their parents. I cannot wait until society grows tired of their nonsense.

v574v · 2018-01-30T22:33:24+00:00

Much better titles:

Women infighting is resolved when feminists appeal to authority figures.

Or

I'm telling dad!

iongantas · 2018-01-31T04:57:25+00:00

It's weird how feminists are quite steadily denying women the power of their sexuality.

ThreeEyedSnake · 2018-01-30T21:25:28+00:00

I don't agree with the following, but as a thought experiment I will continue. If you were in HR and your task was to minimize the risk of law suits, wouldn't your best bet be to hire only straight, white men (In the US)? This thought experiment assumes only SWM (straight white men) applied for the jobs.

SWM have practically zero legal standing when it comes to discrimination law suits, if it were strictly SWM, you would have almost zero change of a sexual allegations besides the possibility of co-workers ragging on each other. You wouldn't have to worry about race lawsuits if every employee is white. You would never have to worry about bathroom rights issues, maternity leave, etc..

I obviously do not advocate any company doing this. I am just looking for a reasonable discussion.

baggyrabbit · 2018-01-30T22:23:04+00:00

But what’s really insulting to women is the patronising assumption that, like children, they need to be told what jobs are unsuitable.

Exactly!

Title	Feminism cost women their jobs.
Author	JStheHammer
Upvotes	19
Comments	19
Date	January 30, 2018 9:07 PM UTC (8 years ago)
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