Saturday 4 August 2012

The Failure of Feminism


  

   It seems in modern society, it has become rather popular for women to berate and demean the notion of masculinity and being male as a way of expressing the empowered woman and their newfound freedom and independence from male oppression . It has created a double standard to the point that if a male were to say “if my woman misbehaves, I just give her a smack”, then that person becomes socially ostracised and refuted…and rightly so! However, if a woman were to say “When my man misbehaves, I just give him a smack”, it is celebrated as a symbol of how far woman have come, the empowered female now able to smack her man without consequences. He deserved it after all.
   
   This double standard permeates into sexual relations between male and female. Picture a man in possession of a sex toy, like a pocket pussy. The current cultural and social values make that man seem pathetic and weak. My contrast, a woman with any kind of sex toy is a symbol of the empowered female.
   
   The mistake Feminism seems to make is the assumption that both male and female sexes are the same; that in order for equality to exist woman must be exactly the same as men. This is simply not the case, for we are physiologically, psychologically and biologically dissimilar and as a species we must accommodate for that.
   
   The entire notion of feminism is a sexist ideology as it focuses on inequality between the sexes…but only for one of the sexes, through which it promotes itself as a rival and contender to their male counterparts. It creates a rift between the sexes which simply should not be. Male and females are partners; two halves of the human species.


  

Here are some feminist quotes that demonstrate just how sexist they can be;
   
  • “I feel that ‘man-hating’ is an honourable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.”  – Robin Morgan, Ms. Magazine Editor
  • “To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he’s a machine, a walking dildo.”  -– Valerie Solanas
  • “I want to see a man beaten to a bloody pulp with a high-heel shoved in his mouth, like an apple in the mouth of a pig.” — Andrea Dworkin
  • “Rape is nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear” — Susan Brownmiller
  • “The more famous and powerful I get the more power I have to hurt men.” — Sharon Stone
  • “In a patriarchal society, all heterosexual intercourse is rape because women, as a group, are not strong enough to give meaningful consent.” — Catherine MacKinnon
  • “The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race.” — Sally Miller Gearhart
  • “Men who are unjustly accused of rape can sometimes gain from the experience.” – Catherine Comins
  • “All men are rapists and that’s all they are” — Marilyn French
  • “Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.” — Germaine Greer 



 In order for equality to exist, such sexist theories such as feminism and masculism must be replaced with something that accomodates for both sexes on an equal level.

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