Feminism is today's New Religion

BDMR_lurker · 2016-11-02T17:33:31+00:00

Feminism is the opium of half the people!

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Also, religion is regarded as true by the common people, false by the wise, and useful by the rulers - Seneca.

2016-11-02T17:38:03+00:00

Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right. Progressives are prophets; and fortunately not all the people are prophets. Thus in the atmosphere of this slowly dying sectarianism anybody who chooses to prophesy and prohibit can tyrannise over the people. If he chooses to say that drinking is always wrong, or that kissing is always wrong, or that wearing buttons is always wrong, people are afraid to contradict him for fear they should be contradicting their own great-grandchild. For their superstition is an inversion of the ancestor-worship of China; and instead of vainly appealing to something that is dead, they appeal to something that may never be born.

There is another cause of this strange servile disease in American democracy. It is to be found in American feminism, and feminist America is an entirely different thing from feminine America. I should say that the overwhelming majority of American girls laugh at their female politicians at least as much as the majority of American men despise their male politicians. But though the aggressive feminists are a minority, they are in this atmosphere which I have tried to analyse; the atmosphere in which there is a sort of sanctity about the minority. And it is this superstition of seriousness that constitutes the most solid obstacle and exception to the general and almost conventional pressure of public opinion. When a fad is frankly felt to be anti-national, as was Abolitionism before the Civil War, or Pro-Germanism in the Great War, or the suggestion of racial admixture in the South at all times, then the fad meets far less mercy than anywhere else in the world; it is snowed under and swept away. But when it does not thus directly challenge patriotism or popular ideas, a curious halo of hopeful solemnity surrounds it, merely because it is a fad, but above all if it is a feminine fad. The earnest lady-reformer who really utters a warning against the social evil of beer or buttons is seen to be walking clothed in light, like a prophetess. Perhaps it is something of the holy aureole which the East sees shining around an idiot.

Wisemanner · 2016-11-02T17:50:59+00:00

It's the new black magic!

2016-11-02T19:25:40+00:00

No surprise. Socialism is yesterday's religion.

Pz5 · 2016-11-02T20:24:20+00:00

Feminism is today's communism and Nazism. It is a totalitarian ideology of sexism.

HokkienNoodle · 2016-11-02T21:10:37+00:00

MRAs are the new Atheists / Agnostics.

EricAllonde · 2016-11-03T00:37:33+00:00

Here's an alternative argument: Prof Jonathan Haidt suggests we are seeing the emergence of an entirely new culture, known as Victimhood culture.

Previously we had "Dignity culture", the rules of which said: if someone insults, offends or slights you then you're expected to deal with it stoically. Parents taught their children "stick and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me". Being thick-skinned and willing to speak up in spite of criticism were seen as virtues.

In Victimhood culture, if someone insults, offends or slights you then you must go to a higher authority and get them to punish that person and make them stop. If there's no higher authority, then you go public and have peer pressure applied to them.

Under victimhood culture, your status is determined by how much of a victim you are, how "oppressed" you are. So we get a game of musical chairs with people claiming victim/oppressed status in various ways: ethnic minority, muslim, LGBT, female, disabled, etc. When the game ends and the music stops, whoever is left standing is the bad guy, the person doing all the oppressing that the other groups claim to be experiencing.

Well, the music has stopped now. It's no surprise that feminists grabbed one of the seats and the main group left standing was straight white men. That's why everyone demonises us: their belief system demands an oppressor in order to show that they are oppressed, and their status in society depends upon them being oppressed.

This is fascinating exploration of the topic, I encourage you to take a look:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/5aq3ue/how_the_demonisation_of_straight_white_men_on/

HugoBorden · 2016-11-02T21:30:39+00:00

That is why they want to CONVERT everyone, and dominate all those who oppose...same as any other blind adherence to a religion.

It’s the new religion of PC, and it came out straight from Marxism. And Marxism was clearly a new secular religion, as many critics have documented.

Marxism was a bastardized form of Judeo-Christian religion.

building a heaven on earth, the New Jerusalem
see everything in black-and-white, it’s Us versus Them. Darkness vs. Light, we’re the forces of Goodness
the poor shall inherit the earth
Marx is the prophet of Truth, and the Truth shall make you Free
a set of Holy Books that need to be studied daily

And a lot more.

Feminism was also a part of Marxist agenda, although not as yet at the centre of it.

Title	Feminism is today's New Religion
Author	Jodasons87
Upvotes	19
Comments	13
Date	November 2, 2016 4:16 PM UTC (9 years ago)
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