I've been thinking a lot lately about what's the role of feminism in current-day society and there are some random thoughts on why it was originally a valid and necessary movement, accomplished its goals and became an increasingly unnecessary movement, turning into what it is today: a trolling, childish, bullshit movement who makes up numbers, ignores the Economics behind the (skewed) pay gap and has to invent villains to exist.

I have no relations with Red Pill but I'm a Classical Liberal/Libertarian, and as Feminism is only a far-left movement in my country, I tend to have bad views on them.

  • Movements like Feminism are very important to get legal rights passed. Women only got suffrage and a pretty much equal legal treatment due to feminists fighting for it. The problem is simple: there are virtually no more things to fight for. Every single bill they might want to pass - such as mandatory equal pay - creates privileges. So, would the feminist movement stop begging for more rights? Of course not! They keep banging for so-called rights that are actually privileges.

  • The lack of fish to fry (no pun intended) also turns feminism into a "more-cultural-than-political" movement. That's natural, it happens with every single minority rights movement after they run out of bills to fight for. The problem is that such movements are almost always childish. Almost always involve supremacist thinking. Almost always need the creation of villains to exist. (In this case, the image of men as walking penises, ready to rape women) And that pisses the entire public opinion against them. Women do have cultural steps to climb (more on this later), but Feminism works against them, because when people get mad at trolling feminists they get mad at women climbing those steps. In a nutshell, modern-day Feminism does more harm than good to women demanding rights.

  • There are still cultural steps towards gender equality that need to be climbed. An example is the male-centric way couples are formed. In my country this is even more evident than it is in the US, and equality would, in my opinion, benefit both genders. But what's the role a cultural movement could have on this? In my opinion, it's a very minor one. They could try to normalize the equalitarian practices (what takes a heck of a lot of time) or they could demonize the non-equalitarian practice and put all the blame for their existence in a currently-inexistant cultural practice (in this case, the Patriarchy). The latter is a much more radical, public-opinion hating practice. That's the path they want to trail. It's obviously the wrong one. Only time can mind those gaps.

  • Why there are so many Feminists frying inch-long fishes? Well, youngsters, especially those associated with the Humanities, want to make a difference in the world. They will look for the first thing they can fight against and will fight it, whether it is rational or not. That's also why there are so many teenage communists, too.

  • They say it's a movement about equality, and deep into it it actually is one. But it's a depleted movement about equality, that's what they're not getting.

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On specific points of the feminist agenda:

  • Rape culture doesn't exist. It's more a public safety problem than a cultural one. The entire society despises rapists, without exceptions - just look what happens to rapists (especially pedophiles) in prisons. And when the assaulters are men with good reputation, people deny it not because we live in a rape-ignoring society. It's because if you start to believe in every rape accusation, you'll give women a very problematic advantage. They could send to jail every men they slept with, and that's a right no one should have. That's why nearly every gay I talked to opposed some anti-homophobia legislation they were trying to pass down there - they could wrongly accuse employers who fired them complaining about homophobia without having any proof, on bad faith. That's just wrong.

  • From a guy whistling to a girl to rape there's a light-year of distance. Overreaction to banal stuff is another sign of the lack of fish to fry (hey, feminists shouldn't be complaining about men doing this, they should be trying to make women doing exactly the same thing something usual!)

  • Equality doesn't mean the same. We know for a fact that men have physical and psychological differences. We should accept their existence, and live with it.

  • Objectifying women is bullshit, everyone objectifies everyone. Or don't women find men attractive simply based on looks too? Stop bullshiting.

  • The economics behind equal pay is so, so obvious. It has to do with possible lost productivity and a historical tendency of leaving work. There's no difference in pay on environments where the women is unlikely to get pregnant.