The Story of Feminism, told by women

BoboTheRed · 2011-02-15T20:32:40+00:00

This video is counterproductive. There are some valid points in there, but they're overshadowed by annoying showy shit, and pointless misogyny that will prevent meaningful discussion.

It's better to say, "Hey, there's a problem. Here's why." than to call women whores.

kloo2yoo · 2011-02-15T18:28:58+00:00

As much as I hate MA's posting tactics, this vid is worth leaving up.

kloo2yoo · 2011-02-15T20:25:21+00:00

it's harsh, sarcastic, and is classified as hate speech by youtube, but I can't deny that it's an effective portrayal of women. TED talks are used. Hillary is quoted. etc.

and the hate speech comes from women.

2011-02-15T22:43:00+00:00

I don't like this video for several reasons. BoboTheRed briefly pointed out some of it, but the real problems with this video are:

It carefully handpicks the most ignorant women and tries to portray them as being representative of women in general. It kinda reminds me of this video.
It pits an 'us vs them' mentality that isn't healthy and certainly isn't a help to anyone. Just as blaming men for all problems obviously is stupid, blaming women for all problems isn't better at all.
Whoever made that video obviously has some strange sense of superiority, trying to claim that men (and thus him) are solely responsible for, well, all advances in science.
Trying to bring attention to real problems by ridiculing half of the world population isn't going to win you any favours, no is it gonna fix any of the problems. It's possible to express constructive criticism of society's one-sided view of domestic violence without insulting everyone.

All in all the video doesn't bring any new issues to light, it just serves as someone's emotional outlet for pent up rage, and you can be 100% sure it won't make any women any more sympathetic towards men's right issues, and I can imagine that some of the women we have here who support men's rights will also feel offended by this video, and rightly so.

TL;DR: downvote from me.

joedoes · 2011-02-15T19:06:03+00:00

It doesn't get any better than this.

Title	The Story of Feminism, told by women
Author	beancounterw
Upvotes	7
Comments	5
Date	February 15, 2011 5:36 PM UTC (15 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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