Bindel's position repeated and strengthened: Feminism isn’t about making men feel comfortable. As Julie Bindel writes, in fact, “If men like a particular brand of feminism, it means it is not working.”

kloo2yoo · 2011-08-12T21:44:02+00:00

We’d really love it if women were not treated as second class citizens or as less than human simply because they are women.

note, no condemnation of second-class treatment for men.

ManThoughts · 2011-08-12T22:17:19+00:00

Puts the lie to the claim that feminism=positive things for everyone.

I also think it's dumb for her to imply that sex-positive feminism is about pleasing men. Maybe these feminists enjoy sex for themselves, and/or they embrace the notion that other people do?

MissCait · 2011-08-12T23:02:14+00:00

Proof that feminism isn't for equality.

windynights · 2011-08-12T22:12:29+00:00

Feminism remains an ideology of hate. There's no sense linking to articles that concern it. No thinking person supports or practises it.

pcarvious · 2011-08-13T02:44:18+00:00

And this is why we can't have nice things /s

Seriously though, a lot of the issues that stem from feminism is that it ignores the privileges that women have gained and can use to their advantage. There is no discourse outside of women being a victim to the men around them. Everything is defined in comparison, one gender to the other, yet it ignores the glaring elephant in the middle of the discussion.

That elephant is that feminism, at one point was about equality. It worked towards equalizing the playing field. Now though, that playing field is even. What differs is the people playing the game itself. You can't get five time outs and expect the other team to only get three. Changing the rules to give yourself an advantage isn't fair to anyone, both on your own team and the other team. When everyone walks off the field at the end of the day they should be able to look back and say they had fun. It shouldn't be looking back and saying "I had fun because I won."

2011-08-13T20:34:07+00:00

Bullshit

c0mputar · 2011-08-13T21:12:25+00:00

This says it all:

"White people often make the same argument around race saying, ‘oh I don’t see colour, aren’t we beyond all that’? But of course, the only person who would be so privileged to so as to ‘not see colour’ would be someone that didn’t have to see it, i.e. a white person. Humans aren’t equal. Oppression comes in many different forms and is deeply ingrained in our social structures. Feminism isn’t about being ‘equal’ to men as feminists do not believe men to be the end all be all in terms of our goals for liberation. We do not wish to be equal oppressors."

Is it clear to people yet that feminism is not about equality?

ThePigman · 2011-08-13T02:21:06+00:00

“If women like a particular brand of masculism, it means it is not working.”

Couldn't agree more.

Title	Bindel's position repeated and strengthened: Feminism isn’t about making men feel comfortable. As Julie Bindel writes, in fact, “If men like a particular brand of feminism, it means it is not working.”
Author	kloo2yoo
Upvotes	11
Comments	8
Date	August 12, 2011 9:41 PM UTC (15 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
Original Link	https://old.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/jh60m/bindels_position_repeated_and_strengthened/
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