It is my opinion that modern day feminism is an amalgamation of peoples with internal issues of insecurity about their own lives attempting to create an artificial, chronic struggle that replicates the natural law of gratification through survival. People that take up causes such as modern day, “third wave”, and what I refer to as “first world feminism”, have had the natural and traditional survival aspect of their lives diminished to the point where basic human needs do not need to be fought and struggled for on a daily basis. In layman’s terms, my suggestion is that the feminists of today view themselves passively, or possibly actively, yet internally as uninteresting and boring with little in their own lives that promotes excitement or enjoyment to gratify the self. As a defense mechanism of sorts, these people – both males and females – take up causes (such as feminism) to add excitement and challenge to their everyday lives as a subliminal replacement or rejuvenation to the modernly underutilized yet natural and unending trial for food, water, shelter and the need to reproduce. Social causes, such as feminism, are often in view of the general public eye as well, which adds the effect of positive reinforcement through others that believe in the same cause due to their own suffering of the aforementioned issue of internal insecurity. Electronic media tools such as social media and digital, informational hardware technologies (i.e. smart phones, tablets, and other mobile devices) tend to elevate the public status of such causes. There comes a point where those susceptible to summing up the worth of their own life in a purely pessimistic fashion inevitably do so in an act(s) of self-reflection – either fleeting or gradual –, and visualize their lives as uninteresting, without merit and/or without potential of legacy. Unfortunately, the causes this type of person joins, revives, supports, or even creates – including but not limited to feminism (“Black Lives Matter” as a prime example), are either outdated, extinguished to the point where they are no longer urgent social issues, absolutely nonexistent in the first place and are therefore fabricated, or are simply based on isolated incidents expanded to the point of mass outrage via the snowball effect through public exposure. Those active participants in groups dedicated to such causes should really be viewed as potential victims of substandard mental health brought on by the unnatural establishment of society.
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Another problem, in my opinion, is the growing egoism in the first world that results in cultism (theoretically, it could be vice versa). Regardless of whether the same principles of egoism and cultism truly began with religion, feminist groups encompass this same sense of egoism that alienates those that want a sense of community. It's a real, desperate shame that communal gatherings, via the internet or in person, are primarily geared towards protected, laser-straight, stone-carved ideals rather than the gathering of individual ideas for growth of the id or the human species as a whole. I posted "My observations" to r/Feminism and was banned instantly by the moderators. Their beliefs are their faith and they are inside a vault that outsiders are not allowed to add to or change.
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