Feminism, Analyzed By A Feminist

Feminists Need to Stop Sounding False Alarms About Sexism

"Now, feminism is not a monolith, nor should it be. Just as feminism showed us there are many kinds of women—and men—in society, there must also be many kinds of feminism. This multiplicity is essential to its progress, for the contours of feminism are defined by the battles between various factions battle (although that’s not the most feminist of metaphors, is it?). Feminists have to not just hold society accountable but hold each other accountable to keep mainstream feminism from losing its edge. But there's also the risk of feminist overreach.

Let's try to unpack this. Without Feminism no one knew that "there are many kinds of women—and men—in society"? How obtuse must this author have been to need a radical ideology to teach her that? And this: feminists "have to ... hold society accountable..." Who made them God? Or goddesses? Or even necessary to acknowledge? Since there are few who hold themselves to lesser moral standards than feminists, how do they qualify to hold us accountable? The hypocrisy is a moral quicksand.

For a whole host of reasons, some for which Beyoncé is responsible and some not, America is having a stuttering but nonetheless real conversation about sexism and gender bias and women’s rights—touching on issues from pay equity to rape culture to reproductive freedom. We need that conversation now more than ever, and feminists are driving it. But if feminism becomes like the boy who cried wolf—if girls, and women, cry sexism too readily and often—America will stop listening. The minute feminism becomes hypercritical and humorless, it becomes too easy for the mainstream to dismiss our more valid complaints. And let’s be honest, it’s kind of refreshing for feminism to be at the cool kids’ table of society at the moment, fraught and confining though it might sometimes be. Does anyone really want to return to the period of sidelined, shrill feminism?"

Let's take the issues of sexism and gender bias she lists: "from pay equity to rape culture to reproductive freedom".

Pay equity is most pronounced in Leftist governmental offices, from Congress to the White House. It is due to women's documented less work hours and more time off than men.

Rape Culture is a fabricated issue, despite the documented decrease in rapes over the past 20 years. And it partly stems from feminist redefinition of all male contact and conversation as "sexual abuse".

Reproductive Freedom means freedom to kill one's progeny for the sake of convenience.

So what we have are bogus issues, which the lesbian-driven feministas require in order to advertise themselves as both Victims and Messiahs. And "society" of course is the Oppressor Class of the poor feminists.

She says,

"The minute feminism becomes hypercritical and humorless..."

Sorry that ship sailed long ago. And this:

"...feminism to be at the cool kids’ table of society at the moment..."

If that is the case, then society has gone completely off the rails, into the drink, and is nearing the bottom of the sea of toxic ideology. What has happened is that there is a media clique within which feminists gaggle up, and that appears to them to be their whole world, the whole of society except, of course, for the hated but necessary Other (men), who count for nothing except for femintistas to abuse.

Finally she asks,

"Does anyone really want to return to the period of sidelined, shrill feminism?"

Yes, please. We don't need feminists to tell us that there are different kind of women (and parenthetically, men). We can decide for ourselves about the phony issues that feminists weep over. And we don't need Messiahs for women in general: women in general function quite well without feminists, and in fact reject feminist Messiahs as speaking for them, because in reality, most women are not victims of any cultural or masculine conspiracy. There are legitimate issues to be had: sexual trafficking and political cultures which, like in Rotherham, refuse to acknowledge a huge child rape culture due to fear of being called racist. Those are legal problems for which no civil person begrudges more effort. But those are not on the radar of feminists; they have no use as bludgeons against the necessary white male Oppressor Class. And that is all that matters to feminists.