Feminist territory marking.

chavelah · 2012-07-11T20:14:58+00:00

Hateful crap from dalrock, as usual.

Grapeban · 2012-07-11T21:32:40+00:00

This is a moronic article. It sets up this premise that there is such thing as "manly pride", which is something only men can feel and something which can only be felt by doing manly things, or possibly men constantly have manly pride, and give it to the institutions they create? I'll be honest, I'm not entirely sure.

Anyway, so the article then states that feminists just want to feel "manly pride", which is why they try to get into male-dominated industries. There's a really odd section which reads:

This is why feminists have so little interest in building up their own organizations. Being top woman doesn’t cut it. They want to break into an all male field; this is the only way for women to experience that feeling of manly pride.

Which I completely don't understand. Why would they make their own organisations? These organisations are already in place, there's no need to create a special "for feminists" army, or science centre, or whatever.

Of course the real driving force here is typical gender role bullshit. Men are awesome at doing manly things, feminists want to be awesome and feel "manly pride", but they can't because they're just women.

And, according to article, because women can't feel manly pride, they try to "feminise" the industry instead. What form does this feminisation take? Well, apparently this form:

Women need separate bathroom and changing facilities, gear needs to be re-sized to fit women

Though to be fair, the author admits these are practical necessities. However, an example is provided of when it goes TOO FAR!

It starts with women demanding to be allowed to wear the US Air Force uniform, but the urge to mark the uniform as feminine is irresistible.

This mark of femininity? Two women breastfeeding whilst wearing the uniform. Wait, what? What were the women meant to do, go home and change just so they could feed their kids? Why should they bother doing something like that? So they don't harm the beloved "manliness" of the Air Force?

So, in summary... bwuh?

Yeah, it's typical gender role shit, where men are just naturally amazing at doing certain things, and women should just accept that and go back to doing the things they can do awesomely (that's a point, do women get "womanly pride"? Why don't men crave "womanly pride" as the feminists crave "manly pride"?), rather than breaking into male industries and ruining the manliness of that industry with their feminism and cooties.

Edit: And it's worth noting that this is some impressive mental gymnastics here. Rather than accept the very, very simple concept that feminists just want to see equality, and that is why they want more women in male dominated industries, he has to invent this bizarre "manly pride" concept just so he can prove that it's really just more feminist penis-envy.

Title	Feminist territory marking.
Author	Demonspawn
Upvotes	1
Comments	7
Date	July 11, 2012 5:30 PM UTC (14 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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