Feminists try to marginalize Janet Bloomfield's book

See-9 · 2014-12-21T07:57:41+00:00

This blog post was...extremely confusing as I don't know who Janet Bloomfield is, what judgybitch.com is (sounds like a jezebel sister site), or what her book was about. After re-reading it I get it more; sucks for the author, but I'm not surprised by the politics.

As an aside to that, I'd like to take a second to ask a favor from everyone: Can this sub please stop using rhetoric crafted, manipulated, and popularized by third wave feminism? Words such as: marginalized, oppression, "shaming", harassment and sexual assault, (in cases where it's not actually harassment), matriarchy, etc. I have a few more but I'll leave those to its own post, as it'll be controversial.

These words are literally what first got me skeptical about third-wave feminism in the first place, and I find now that people here are re-appropriating the words for their own use in the context of Men's Rights. Now, I'm not sure this shift started in parody and irony, but I see more and more in this sub that the rhetoric is used without humor and with the same intent as third-wave feminism.

The intent of most of these words is to evoke a particularly strong knee-jerk emotional response to immediately gain the favor and agreement of the reader. Their common usage n most of these gender debates, on both sides, not only has no place, but it borders on propaganda. The use of such language immediately makes me more skeptical of the author's intent, and will actively dissuade critical thinkers from your arguments if you use the term in an exaggeratory manner to gain that immediate knee-jerk agreement.

Please do not participate in a Victim Olympics. In the event where there's injustice, focus on the injustice itself instead of the victim behind it. Shifting the discussion towards men being the "real victims" or how we "have it so much harder than women" or any other us vs them scenario is the exact same infantile argument put forth by the same movement this group rejects. Yet more and more I see this sub and ilk resort to those methods. Don't fall prey to their rhetorical tactics, and certainly don't assimilate those into your own. Let your argument stand on its own by showing injustice for what it is; if your point is true then you don't need to use exaggerated rhetorical devices to show it.

See-9 out drops mic

joewilson-MRA · 2014-12-21T13:49:16+00:00

What happened to Janet is the reason a lot of MRAs still operate under an alias. There is an initiative to demonize the men's rights initiative and being associated with it can (and as we just saw proof of it - does) hurt your professional standing.

Title	Feminists try to marginalize Janet Bloomfield's book
Author	_malat
Upvotes	25
Comments	15
Date	December 21, 2014 4:21 AM UTC (11 years ago)
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