Feminist author: girls shouldn’t read any books written by men

Rasalom72 · 2017-03-10T18:49:58+00:00

I agree totally. Let's prevent women from reading any of those text books written by men, or instruction manuals, or web sites... let's all go back to a time where women only learned useful skills from their mothers.. things like cooking and cleaning.... /s

censoredandagain · 2017-03-10T21:48:57+00:00

Girls shouldn't read book period, since the printing press was invented by a man.

Hiruis · 2017-03-11T00:14:21+00:00

I had a political science professor that wouldn't assign any readings written by males. She also hated any words that had male influence like; "seminal" as in the "seminal works of Joan Smith". She would constantly attack male students for answering questions and refer to it as "mansplaining" and other things. At this same university there is a feminist professor that wont allow males to speak in her class because men are "too privileged". she unveiled her new rule at a feminist forum at Dalhousie university and was met with a standing ovation and was celebrated.

Samantha_Cruz · 2017-03-10T19:11:35+00:00

so; basically girls can't read engineering text books, medical textbooks or math textbooks... fortunately we have plenty of cookbooks to choose from.

somelikeitinthetwat · 2017-03-10T21:33:03+00:00

Women shouldn't learn algebra and algorithms either, remember those are just names of the Arab men who discovered them. Might as well also add the scientific process, philosophy, physics, chemistry, art, music to the list of things they're not allowed to do.

onlyslightlybiased · 2017-03-10T22:14:36+00:00

So they can't read the Bible, time to go full sharia

574N13Y · 2017-03-11T00:17:58+00:00

While I agree with the Blog Post's general idea, let me highlight a part of the text that stood out for me:

Now is is true that there are distorted images of women—and sexist ones—in books written by men. Particularly in earlier times, women were seen as inferior, and that’s often reflected in literature.

When I faced the pique of dissolution and despair with today's contemporary stories, I lost myself in classical writing. And discovered, contrary to the Bloggers opinion, that long-lasting, reputable male authors of that century still believed women to be virtuous and peaceful compared to men.

William Golding stated his opinion, not in any book but from the horse's mouth himself, that women were SUPERIOR to men. William FUCKING Golding of all people, author of Lord Of The Flies. Elevating women to a higher stature.

What I also discovered: Virtue Signalling and "The Women Are Wonderful Effect" existed even in stories from the old days.

turbo240 · 2017-03-11T02:09:03+00:00

reading a book with my heart open, waiting to find out how the author would see me; talk to me; evaluate me, as a girl

Wut

NeDictu · 2017-03-11T01:14:08+00:00

a feminist willing to sabotage other women in order to drum up sales on her own lame books? is this a first?!

2017-03-11T02:09:17+00:00

Feminism is supposed to be about not caring about the author's gender..

Tmomp · 2017-03-10T20:23:39+00:00

Poe's law?

OverWorkedCorpse · 2017-03-10T22:29:29+00:00

So is this author going to live out in the wilderness in a mud hut wearing clothes she made her self with tools she made her self because a very large majority of things she owns, uses day to day, wears and needs are either designed or made by men. Such a attention seeking idiot.

TheCitizenAct · 2017-03-10T22:29:25+00:00

She isn't a feminist, that's just a euphemism - she's a misandrist and a bigot. She's what a modern progressive (anti-liberal) society produces, and deems socially acceptable.

Of course, a simple switch of context from men to 'black men' or 'women' would be met by her own calls, and those of her fellow progressives and employer, of 'a return to fascism' (an ideology many of them - progressives - championed in the 1920s).

RandomThrowaway410 · 2017-03-11T02:43:46+00:00

yeah! I agree! Let's stop using products built by men, too!

...wait that's fucking everything

Revorob · 2017-03-11T05:05:38+00:00

By that logic, boys shouldn't read any books written by women. However, I am sure feminists would consider that sexist.

EDIT: Spelling.

illHitABitch · 2017-03-10T23:51:17+00:00

What a crock of shit. I've always been a book worm. I can't imagine my childhood without RL Stine and a bit later Stephen King. Maybe she should read more books and stop encouraging young women to limit their exposure, thus limiting their potential. Then again what do I know, I read books written by boys, the travesty!

Ithelda · 2017-03-11T03:13:03+00:00

Holy shit, no. I loved some of the same books she mentioned when I was a little girl... and I also loved books by men too. Even if her idea that men can't write for women was true, which it's not, the answer isn't to fucking shield girls from things that may be sexist or make them uncomfortable in literature. Books are supposed to develop your critical thinking. Let girls read the books they're drawn to. Ugh and there's so many fucking books with great female characters in them, why is she complaining??? She makes it sound like there's hardly any. Arghhhh

2017-03-10T21:24:54+00:00

Huh. I wonder if she would be against Jane Austin books since they so clearly represent the patriarchy as it existed in the 1700's.

thelordxl · 2017-03-11T00:40:42+00:00

girls shouldn't read

Giraffetamer12 · 2017-03-11T01:33:32+00:00

By that logic women shouldnt be able to use the internet, which was created by a man. Tumblr would shut down overnight! Maybe i can get behind this...

SaltyBanana69 · 2017-03-11T02:21:05+00:00

In other words, women shouldn't read.

CAMYtheCOCONUT · 2017-03-11T04:29:01+00:00

Tell them to read Ayn Rand, they'd freak out.

Not_Just_Any_Lurker · 2017-03-11T04:39:47+00:00

Girls also shouldn't live in any buildings made by men. /s

poorpersonality · 2017-03-11T05:57:41+00:00

When I was younger I read books by female authors but then I stopped because there was just too much sexism, feminism in them. Not in all of them but the likelihood of hostility was just too great. I might be wrong, but I have this theory that most women, at least the educated ones, look down on men as a group and when they express themselves freely it shows. (And these women think that men have the same attitude towards women and that misunderstanding is on of the driving forces behind Feminism.)

McFeely_Smackup · 2017-03-11T06:27:36+00:00

Maybe off subject a little, but vibrators...invented by a man.

MisdemeanorOfTheMind · 2017-03-11T09:39:48+00:00

I can definitely see her point if she's talking about feminist related issues discussed by men, feminists need to be sheltered from any concepts that might challenge their preexisting ideologies. Otherwise they'd need a trigger warning.

Edit: a word

bfwilley · 2017-03-11T10:23:20+00:00

Are we about to get a new term?

Sexual Appropriation? or would that be Gender Textual Reverse Appropriation?

TheRealTakazatara · 2017-03-10T21:58:00+00:00

Is this gonna branch off into movies directed or written by men?

tragedyfish · 2017-03-10T22:21:48+00:00

Anyone who believes this deserves ignorance.

blfire · 2017-03-11T00:19:07+00:00

Boko Haram!

Hollen88 · 2017-03-11T00:34:36+00:00

Fuck that. Tell em to read the Mistborn series. Strong female lead and everything.

ustael · 2017-03-11T03:48:29+00:00

I read Christina Hoff Sommers, Ann Coulter, and Suzanne Vekner. Plenty of female writers and they all seem to understand the dangers of modern feminism.

2017-03-11T03:48:42+00:00

Someone had better tell her the tampon was invented by a man.

GreatSmithanon · 2017-03-11T05:45:49+00:00

Feminists keep acting crazy, and they spoonfeed us more examples on how horrible, backwards, and dangerous feminism has gotten.

iainmf · 2017-03-11T06:25:31+00:00

The top selling authors of fiction are women. If you don't count ol' Bill Shakespeare, who has had a few hundreds head start.

Electroverted · 2017-03-11T08:43:41+00:00

Marginalizing yourself from anyone that's either an ally or on the fence well be very bad for you.

BobbyDropTableUsers · 2017-03-11T09:35:04+00:00

It's toxic masculinity. It seeps out and poisons the reader. Problem is- Harper Lee, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Austen, Sylvia Plath, et al., all grew up poisoned by masculinity. How can what they write about ever be pure and unaffected by all that?

What these ladies need to find are female authors that grew up in a female only environment and never met a man. That will give them the most realistic world view.

A_Direwolf · 2017-03-11T10:46:31+00:00

So all good books then.

Tintcutter · 2017-03-11T12:17:27+00:00

The circle grows complete, they will soon be calling for a modern nunnery! They will need a fancy name for the idea.

dacripplershit · 2017-03-11T12:44:23+00:00

yep spoken like a real feminist..meanwhile in "boytown" boys read less than girls..boys do worse in english and other social skills...so yeah where is the national push to get more boys to read

sureno13_x3 · 2017-03-11T12:56:51+00:00

Women shouldn't read engineering text books, but I have& I found it absolutely mediocre.

unlucky_ducky · 2017-03-11T13:12:47+00:00

So where is this equality they speak so much about? Because surely something this sexist couldn't possibly originate from a movement working for the "equal" treatment of genders?

warspite88 · 2017-03-11T13:13:05+00:00

this is brilliant stuff because its more factual evidence of just how full of misandry and corrupt feminism as a whole is.

sweepminja · 2017-03-11T13:59:16+00:00

Better put down most math and science books then.

dacripplershit · 2017-03-11T14:00:01+00:00

this article really is ironic....girls reading books by men will make them less prepared to deal with boys in real life??? Er if girls got their noses out of books perhaps they would actually have to deal with boys in real life. This really sounds more like a feminist money grab...don't read any books by men...BUT buy mine

2017-03-11T14:38:24+00:00

she must get laid, tons

Rethgil · 2017-03-11T20:15:33+00:00

Right so that presumably means we shouldnt watch her sitcom on the BBC in response. shouldn't be hard as all her stuff is sexist trash.

MGTOWinCambodia · 2017-03-11T21:57:08+00:00

Let's get this message louder! Not to expose it as bullshit, to promote it!

Nothing will make young girls want to read the works of men like their overlords telling them what they can and can't read.

HMAN17 · 2017-03-13T17:47:00+00:00

They could take it one step further and just not use anything in society created or invented by men. How quickly opinions would change.

Samantha_Cruz · 2017-03-16T15:19:17+00:00

Following this same logic they shouldn't use any product created by a man...

for instance:

a man invented birth control pills; (Gregory Goodwin Pincus)
men invented the light bulb (Edison and Hiram Maxim and Joseph Swan)
a man invented the automobile (Karl Benz)
men invented the internet (several men really, The main names include Leonard Kleinrock who wrote the framework of what became Arpanet which evolved into the internet; Robert Metcalf, David Riggle, Mark Painter, Douglas Terry, Songnian Zhou, (Created BIND/DNS protocols) Yogel Dala, Carl Sunshine, Ray Tomlinson (created the SMTP protocol used for email), Tim Berners-Lee (Created the HTML protocol used for web design); all of which happened years before Al Gore, another male introduced a bill in congress to make Arpanet into what we know today as the Internet...
A Man invented the Cell Phone (Martin Cooper)
A man invented the first mass produced shoe (Jan Ernst Matzeliger invented the first machines to mass produce shoes; people were making hand made shoes before that and no-one knows who 'invented' the first hand made shoes; some have dated back to around 7000-8000 BCE)
A man invented computers (Charles Babbage)
A man invented the Telephone (Alexander Graham Bell is mostly credited, although Elisha Gray and Antonio Meucci may have beat him to it; regardless, all 3 are male...)
A Man invented Air conditioning (Willis Carrier, John Gorrie, John Hadley and even Benjamin Franklin were all instrumental in creating Air Conditioning)
A man invented the Generator; A device used to produce almost all electricity in use across the planet (Michael Faraday)
A Man invented the battery (Alessandro Volta)
A man invented the vibrator (Dr. Joseph Mortimer Granville who did NOT invent it for the purpose of treating "female hysteria" contrary to popular myth)

Men invented nearly all of the labor saving devices that made it possible for women to be able to spend less time as "homemakers".

Washing Machine (Alva Fisher)
Dryer (J Ross Moore)
Oven (Jordan Mott)
Irons (Henry Seeley)
Microwave (Percy Spencer)
Vacuum Cleaner (Daniel Hess and Hubert Cecil Booth)

The only major exception is:

The first Dishwasher was invented by a woman (Josephine Cochran)

and someone else already mentioned that the printing press was invented by men, so according to the logic set forth by this 'brilliant feminist' - women shouldn't read any books at all...

InformalCriticism · 2017-03-11T00:23:45+00:00

The already don't. That's why they're so batshit.

LurkerWhoDoesentPost · 2017-03-11T01:22:27+00:00

Feminists should never be around any male ever. Feminists should never have children, or loose being a feminist. A Feminist dies alone...

2017-03-11T03:24:48+00:00

You know.. It's kinda like social Darwinism... So dumb they are ready to cut their own lifeline of knowledge as means of "retaliation" haha. These dumb broads are sure to discover self-lobotomies any time now.

slouchingupward · 2017-03-11T03:36:21+00:00

The author of the blog post lists Shelley as one of the authors girls would miss out on. Are they referring to MARY Shelley? FEMALE author of Frankenstein?

Funcuz · 2017-03-11T04:33:42+00:00

So, they can only learn about their feewings? Not many other choices out there.

2017-03-11T06:24:19+00:00

So, no Bible for them?

A_Paranoid_Android · 2017-03-11T00:43:28+00:00

She's a brilliant writer to be fair to her.

moral_contraceptive · 2017-03-11T03:06:04+00:00

I understand her point differently than the top comments here. It's not, in meaning, about avoiding men (hear me out) as much as it's about gaining an understanding of what it is to be female from females. I think it is a credible point: women don't see themselves in the women they see portrayed in much (not all) of media, new or old. Moran is suggesting that a diet of strong female representation early on (not forever) can build confident, self-possessed young women. Male authors and screenwriters have an inherently male viewpoint that just doesn't do for girls what it does for boys. I wouldn't suggest that female authors could do for boys what male authors do. I'll add that I think the goal is to 'build' women that are in fact less likely to bully men in order to find their strength, character, and personal responsibility - at least that is my hope. It's a hope for mutual respect that starts with each person working on their own shit - her argument is about building a girl's self image based on female perspective.

_Oisin · 2017-03-10T23:35:27+00:00

This is why no one takes men's rights issues seriously.

Title	Feminist author: girls shouldn’t read any books written by men
Author	Ontrus
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Date	March 10, 2017 5:35 PM UTC (9 years ago)
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