Wealthy Feminists Hijacking Cause For Their Own Benefit, Says Academic: A leading British feminist has said that feminism has been hijacked by an elite who use it to further their own careers rather than to stand up for other women.

Clockw0rk · 2015-01-20T00:57:48+00:00

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... Seriously, if you've gotten even a whiff of the current state of modern feminism, it's pretty clearly a hugbox of like minded leeches trying to claw their way to the top through 'equality actions' rather than merit.

No one gives a frayed pubic curl about the women making minimum wage at McDonalds. It's all about networking and scaling the office ladder. If you aren't a white collar woman, you aren't shit to modern Feminism.

It's fucking disgusting.

This coming from a former feminist.

cake4chu · 2015-01-20T02:23:40+00:00

cough Anita Sarkeesian cough

2015-01-20T02:23:44+00:00

Feminism from the Women's Temperance movement until today was always upper middle class white women outraged at other people enjoying themselves.

Alzael · 2015-01-20T02:02:40+00:00

Oh good.She's finally catching onto something that's been happening since the beginning of feminism.

With such crackerjack intellects among the feminist community I can't imagine why they've never managed to overthrow the patriarchy after all this time.

thedoze · 2015-01-20T08:26:47+00:00

big surprise feminists thinking only about themselves at the expense of all others.

Broccoli_Tesla · 2015-01-20T08:41:18+00:00

You can tell because their biggest concern is the Apex. How can I increase my chances at being a boardroom member or CEO. The only people that are concerned with making laws and quotas about these things are the people with a shot at them. The people with the connections to get in. The wealthy.

They don't care about the poor checkout girl working pay check to pay check. Who is hoping to pull another shift to get a doctor's appointment. But they use her as way to further their own cause if they can.

2015-01-20T06:23:14+00:00

Implying it was once different?

TheLordOfShit · 2015-01-20T06:51:22+00:00

Why do females need people to stand up for them? This isn't Uganda. They're complaining that rich, privileged people aren't helping female, privileged people be more privileged?

w00dw0rk0r · 2015-01-20T04:00:37+00:00

pretty much every womans group at work

2015-01-20T03:12:53+00:00

So in this whole feminism thing:

A few feminists actually believe some of the shit 'modern feminism' is putting out.
A few know its bullshit, but call themselves feminists and actually do real advocation for problems women face.
The majority see it as something to call themselves because they perceive it as benefiting themselves.

I know lots of internet feminists are in denial about my interactions with feminists in real life, the reality is that with in any group you find people who actually believe the shit put out by the group no matter how inane. Just under the majority of feminists I've met IRL have actually stated they are a feminist because it helps them directly as a feminist. The other biggest portion say its because it's sexist against men. The third in line is because they are radical marxists (Yeah I don't... I don't know). The fourth in line are women who think it is pro women. The other are the portion who think it 'means equality.' After 3 theres a bit of a drop off...

(I mean I once knew a guy who wasn't anti gay, but thought that gay people shouldn't come out of the closet because he thought that it would hurt gay people to come out, and was in some weird 'gay people shouldn't come out' type club, he left when he realized they were actually about hating gay people and just fed him the shit he needed to hear to get him to show up, and check the 'membership' box.)

ponyflash · 2015-01-20T06:22:43+00:00

It's always been this way. Those in power use everything they have to gain more power, while those that aren't in power get shat on. This is why both working class men and women are oppressed by those in power.

iMADEthis2post · 2015-01-20T09:36:44+00:00

Capitalist feminism! Does anyone remember a documentary a while back looking into or highlighting where some of the money from breast cancer fundraising was going? British I believe and it was going towards political financing or something like that. The details escape me and I've been wanting a refresher.

2015-01-20T15:22:14+00:00

Joesph Stalin called the western believers in Communism "useful idiots", and that can pretty much describe any Feminist who does not have a shot at being on the board of directors, wants to run for office or wants tenure at a university these days.

Feminism has done squat for the poor and working class woman,Today there are moves a foot that to be listed on the Toronto Stock exchange there has to be 50% women on the board , the Liberal party is bringing rules to have 50% female candidates, Ontario government is studying at closing the "wage gap" and female leadership in the Public sector , even though women make up 60% of government workers or more., and Universities having a quota of 50% female professorship.

The minimum wage women who has found "equality" and has no fictitious "wage gap" struggling to make ends meet. They ( The upper middleclass feminists ) don't give a shit about her other than to say Boogaa Boogaa rape culture , Scary scary Patriarchy. *Protest and vote how we say so I can secure my seat on the board of a corporation with out trying .

JackBadass · 2015-01-20T06:24:40+00:00

All feminists just use feminism for their own benefit. Just look at Anita Sarkeesian.

dominotw · 2015-01-20T01:49:00+00:00

Duh..

warspite88 · 2015-01-20T05:15:30+00:00

pfff dear innocent feminist is just now figuring this out? or speaking up against it? what a joke!

you will see many a great many feminists start to back peddle and throw their "extremist elite" sisters under the bus but the decades of misandry policy that is obvious, oh no dont blame that on me.

ride the coat tails until it isnt convenient , that is how you step off the hate train without a guilty conscience.

misandry is still not recognized by spell check....ANYWHERE... come on noble feminists, when you going to stop y our elite sisters from silencing it?

anonlymouse · 2015-01-20T10:53:46+00:00

Hijacked? No. That's what it started as. They're just reclaiming it from the dirty peasants.

2015-01-20T13:11:42+00:00

Was it ever any different?

TracyMorganFreeman · 2015-01-20T13:19:09+00:00

That's basically been the case since the 19th century. Wealthy women not liking having to share their assets into marital property like the men had to.

Feminism has been a smokescreen for their opportunism from the beginning, even if early feminism arguably was for overturning inequities for women(which is debatable).

pdg45acp · 2015-01-20T14:33:51+00:00

My shocked face :-/

warspite88 · 2015-01-20T16:07:09+00:00

all those innocent poor feminists who think they are part of a wholesome and righteous cause, feminism and its eternal fight for certain beneficial rights but not accountability with men. now they are saying it is all the rich feminists fault for the growing backlash towards its hate movement.

when will all feminists, even the most moderate realize they are 'like' the german who clings to the hope in the nazi party for a better society, they are the rich and poor american white folk before a civil war, that squabble over whether black slavery is moral or not , too much money and rights to be lost in freeing those blacks! They are the oppressors of men and women in a way never before seen, they are part of the most successful hate movement in the history of mankind (womankind too right)

I believe many of the rich feminists, the ones who get pay checks from the feminist or state establishment in some form, know what is going on is wrong. But they are not going to lift a finger to stop it, it would cost them too much to do the right thing.

There are all sorts in this world both men and women. feminism is the evil, women are not they are as human as men. The tables are starting to turn as more speak and march for mens human rights, as that light of how deplorable men have it compared to what feminists preach, feminism will be called out in full on its failure(s). It will be made the next example of what a hate movement looks like and how we need to avoid it.

goodboy · 2015-01-20T04:18:00+00:00

tl;dr: this train is headed on a way track to Marxistown or by god we will derail this som' bitch!

homelessscootaloo · 2015-01-20T13:11:02+00:00

Is there another source that isn't breitbart?

Wargame4life · 2015-01-20T13:39:45+00:00

What was her first clue? The fact 99% of feminists claims don't stand up to any form of critical objective scrutiny ?

Feminism is very much like a batshit scientology style religion, and believe it or not MRAs are somewhat the same in some of their claims.