Lauren Southern "I Can Be An Anti Feminist As Well As A Libertarian!"

eaton80 · 2015-07-05T17:11:03+00:00

Well yeah.

The question is, how can someone be a libertarian AND a feminist.

eletheros · 2015-07-06T04:19:38+00:00

Feminism is one of the strongest authoritarian political groups in existence today. It's no surprise a libertarian can be anti-feminist. It's pretty much a pre-requisite.

pnw_diver · 2015-07-05T20:11:41+00:00

I don't trust Southern completely, or know her well, but I saw the video of her protesting the "slut walk" even in Canada, and I thought on the balance she dealt with the greasy kid stuff from angry girls pretty well.

junoguten · 2015-07-08T04:50:26+00:00

I know there are some people who call themselves feminists online who also call themselves feminists. (I don't mean to sound odious by saying 'call themselves', but I don't know their actual views). Whenever I've had long winded discussions with feminists in my own (offline) life though, they've always been:

Pro civilian disarmament (except for one who thought women alone should have gun rights)
Pro male profiling
Pro forcing the wages of various jobs to be more equal
Anti male contraceptive pills (took some convincing to even make many of them believe those exist)
Pro 12 female only defences for murder
Pro forcing equality of numbers of men and women in top notch jobs
Pro-tokenism (when it favours them at least).

My point is the overlap between feminism and libertarianism appears to be a lot smaller than random chance, so it wouldn't surprise me if the overlap between anti-feminism and libertarianism would be a lot larger than random chance.

YetAnotherCommenter · 2015-07-06T03:14:57+00:00

"Can" be?

You cannot be a consistent libertarian and a Third Wave/Radical Feminist at the same time. The stances are irreconcilable. The only kind/s of Feminism compatible with libertarianism are the "not true feminisms" of Individualist/Classical Liberal Feminism (such as Wendy McElroy, Christina Hoff-Sommers and Cathy Young).

It ultimately comes down to methodological individualism vs. methodological collectivism. Libertarianism depends on the former, and Radical/Third Wave Feminisms depend on the latter.

Ergo, any consistent libertarian will inexorably end up an opponent (even if merely tacitly) of Radical and Third Wave Feminism (and therefore the powerful/established/institutionalized Feminist movement).

Title	Lauren Southern "I Can Be An Anti Feminist As Well As A Libertarian!"
Author	JobDestroyer
Upvotes	87
Comments	10
Date	July 5, 2015 4:56 PM UTC (11 years ago)
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