"The Future Is Female"

throwra_coolname209 · 2021-04-15T00:21:59+00:00

An argument about this slogan almost ended my one relationship.

My stance wasn't even against the slogan per se. I disagree with it, but not vehemently enough to say anything. Nah, my stance was literally just "that's bad marketing".

I tried like... 3 or 4 times to try to explain how statements like it would really only alienate men from women's issues. I never got a good reply, it delved too quickly into "we don't need men to be feminists" or "this statement wasn't meant for men". Well, that and the whole "it's implicitly saying 'the future is female too'" a la BLM.

I'm definitely pretty far left on most ideals but damn, the left is SHIT at marketing.

brenco · 2021-04-15T01:24:54+00:00

Yeah...... my son’s kindergarten teacher has this on a poster in the class. I had actually just learned the roots of it last week as well. If, (and it’s a big if) the kids end up going back for in-school learning after this current lockdown, I will be taking a stand on it. Removing it myself if needed is definitely on the table.

tiredfromlife2019 · 2021-04-15T01:26:46+00:00

For those who wonder what the OP means about the origin of the slogan "The Future Is Female" . Read below.

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Again, I post this for you guys to read.

Sally Miller Gearhart (born April 15, 1931) is an American teacher, feminist, science-fiction writer, and political activist.[1] In 1973, she became the first open lesbian to obtain a tenure-track faculty position when she was hired by San Francisco State University, where she helped establish one of the first women and gender study programs in the country.[2] She later became a nationally known gay rights activist.[2]

In her early career, Gearhart took part in a series of seminars at San Francisco State University, where feminist scholars were critically discussing issues of rape, slavery, and the possibility of nuclear annihilation. Gearhart outlines a three-step proposal for female-led social change from her essay, "The Future–-If There Is One–-is Female":

I) Every culture must begin to affirm a female future.

II) Species responsibility must be returned to women in every culture.

III) The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race.

Gearhart does not base this radical proposal on the idea that men are innately violent or oppressive, but rather on the "real danger is in the phenomenon of male-bonding, that commitment of groups of men to each other whether in an army, a gang, a service club, a lodge, a monastic order, a corporation, or a competitive sport." Gearhart identifies the self-perpetuating, male-exclusive reinforcement of power within these groups as corrosive to female-led social change.

Thus, if "men were reduced in number, the threat would not be so great and the placement of species responsibility with the female would be assured." Gearhart, a dedicated pacifist, recognized that this kind of change could not be achieved through mass violence. On the critical question of how women could achieve this, Gearhart argues that it is by women's own capacity for reproduction that the ratio of men to women can be changed though the technologies of cloning or ovular merging, both of which would only produce female births. She argues that as women take advantage of these reproductive technologies, the sex ratio would change over generations.[14]

Daphune Patal in her book Heterophobia: Sexual Harassment and the Future of Feminism summarizes Gearhart's essay as, "The future must be in female hands, women alone must control the reproduction of species; and only 10% of the population should be allowed to be male".[15]

Mary Daly supported Gearhart's proposals, stating: "I think it's not a bad idea at all. If life is to survive on this planet, there must be a decontamination of the Earth. I think this will be accompanied by an evolutionary process that will result in a drastic reduction of the population of males."[16]

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Men cannot have their own groups neatly explains all the we need to have diversity aka more women in anything that has either only males or few women in it hence all the push and programs to change that.

Future must be in female hands and all power to women neatly explains "The future is female" or "The Force is female"

BagimsizBulent · 2021-04-15T07:01:17+00:00

Ladies with inferiority complex loves this. It is meaningless and sounds like a catchy adidas advertisement. So sad people find it worth uttering.

AmiablePenguin · 2021-04-15T07:13:01+00:00

Jesus... eugenic cleansing as a manifesto. Never thought I'd have the displeasure of reading this first thing in the morning. Now I don't even want to get out of bed.

Riganthor · 2021-04-15T07:28:23+00:00

oh boy sexism, eugenics and implied genocide. We have gone so far backwards that we are back in 1929

pwnsilver · 2021-04-15T11:55:01+00:00

Found an article that explains why the binary it pushes is so harmful http://www.newnownext.com/tegan-and-sara-wildfang-the-future-is-fluid/10/2017/

IronJohnMRA · 2021-04-15T12:26:20+00:00

If the future is female, equality is history.

-QuestionReality- · 2021-05-08T23:08:59+00:00

It’s also weird that people from formerly oppressed groups think that it’s acceptable because the women before them were oppressed. Like, no, that’s not ok wtf? An eye for an eye...

Not to mention that they’re being hostile towards men who weren’t even alive at the time.

Title	"The Future Is Female"
Author	Skeleton_Warrior
Upvotes	294
Comments	53
Date	April 15, 2021 12:08 AM UTC (3 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates
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