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How feminism perpetuates sexism

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 If you consider this meme it is extremely obvious what it is saying. It is talking about male redditors and how if people say anything homophobic, they laugh. If they say anything about minorities, or women then they laugh. However if a woman says anything about men being bad then male redditors will write pages and pages of text refuting. It's very obvious what the meme is saying and is a piece of misandric sexism that is often found in feminist spaces, in this case it was from "Radical Feminists" but was crossposted to other feminist sub reddits too. It received over 700 upvotes, likely more as we can't see how many downvotes the 700 upvotes had to over come. That is at least 700 people liked this and agree with it. When I suggested that this was sexist the feminists start to defend it. To any free thinking person how can this be defenceable ? It's outright misandry ? Well the way it is defended is with the tried and tested "All men"  counter. Reading...

Feminists often are quick to engage in behaviours they publicly decry ?

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  Feminists are the queens of double standards. The recent hack of the tea application is an absolute perfect example of this. Tea was an app that allowed women to swap notes on men they were dating. They would share facebook profiles, names, images and other PII (personally indetifiable information) for other women to freely access. Then, the app makers were hacked. The hackers took all of the data of the users and publically put it out on 4chan. Female users, the personal name, data and images were put out for all to see. The outcry on this, from Feminists cirlces, has been overwhelming. Women complaining how unfair it was and how awful it has been. The irony seemingly completely lost that women are upset, their data was spilt onto the internet for doing precisely what they themselves were doing. The thing is with this it shows the absolute double standards that feminists are so keen to indulge in. Often the reason given is "Women's safety" and that's why they wish ...

Why don't men call out misogyny ?

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  Often we hear from women lamenting how men don't hold other men to account for misogyny . Why don't men do that ? Why do they let sexist jokes slide ? Why don't they correct other men when they are being sexist ? The answer to this is the same reason as to why women never, ever hold each other to account. Misogyny is heavily policed, prosecuted. The UK government is insisting that Adolesence is shown in UK schools . It's a  fictional  drama, about a boy who is radcialised, online, and stabs a female pupil. A month after the drama was shown there was the real case of a girl who went to school and stabbed two teachers . The response from the government ? Nothing. Are men calling out other men enough ? There's always more you can do, of course there always is. The equalities act, the air time that eveil men harming innocent women get, there's a lot being done to call men out on misogyny. Women and misandry ? Not so much. There are entire sub reddits showing th...

Why do women only settlements fail ?

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  Before the 4B movement (a radical feminist movement that aims to remove men from women's lives) there were several attempts to set up women only camps. Often, in feminist circles, women dream of this freedom. Men being removed, women not having to live in fear and life is basically unicorns and rainbows. The obvious question, that nobody seems to ask is "If it's such a great idea why aren't these things common ?". Any feminist post touting the idea will have hundreds of women commenting how great it will be and how they want this to happen. So let's look at what has happened to these attempts in the past. If it's so great why do they all fail ? Surely women freed from the patriachy bogeyman, with no men to oppress them are going to go on to do amazing things ? Surely ? Well, they all fail. There's been a few attempts in the past for example "Camp Sister Spirt" founded in 1993, closed in 2010. It had a good run, 17 years before it inevitabl...

The mythical wage gap

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  One of the many gripes women have is the gender pay gap. According to wikipedia pay gap, allegedly, manifests itself in two ways Women are paid the same as men but generally work less hours and so end up with less money Women are paid less for exactly the same labour as men On the face of it, looking at that data, gosh it's the evil bogeyman patriachy holding women back, yet again. As always though what lies beneath it is way more subtle and really, put the claims under a microscope and they evaporate away. The first observation to make, in the EU at least, women just work fewer hours than men . For whatever reason women choose to work fewer hours and so have less money as a result. Is this really a gender pay gap ? Or is this free choice with women choosing that money is less important to them than other activities ? Do they value the flexibility of working less hours prioritising their children ? Isn't it, perhaps, fortunate they have the ability to to enjoy that ability ...

Patriachy keeps women locked into child care

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" I’m on the way home from a long trip that included three separate flights each way. In most of these flights, I saw this family seating pattern over and over: Parents in adjacent aisle seats, with the kids next to the woman. That left the man free to drink or sleep, while the woman handled all the child care. This seemed to me like such a powerful illustration of the patriarchy in action. I guess when you have kids, only men get vacations. " So writes one woman seeing the patriachy bogeyman everywhere. These sorts of posts always make me smile as they are invariably written by young woman who have yet to have children themselvs. They are looking at family life, through naivety, a child's position, and seeing things from an very limited view point. The thing is having children is a huge upheavel in your life. The life that you knew before, care free (taking long trips with three seperate flights each way for example) doesn't really exist anymore. It can do but it...

Women continue to practise sexism, despite claiming they want equal rights?

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A new sensation has oppened in Australia, a women's only night club. That's right men are denied entry based purely on gender. The club is called The Black Out Room and takes place in The Aberdeen Hotel , in Perth. The comments on Facebook have been, well not entirely happy about things. This has galvanised the two women, running the club, into a defiance.  This is not the first time that Australia has set up openly misandrist venues. There was a vegan cafe, "Handsome Her" which opened up in Melbourne in 2017 which openly charged men more to use the cafe. Men enjoyed an 18% surchage to cover the widely debunked Gender Pay Gap. 2 Years later and Handsome Her had to close down . It feels that running a business is tough enough but is even harder if you are openly discriminating against 50% of your potential customer base. The thing is, these ventures force us to ask what sort of society we want to be. If we are going to be truly equal rights, then we need to practise w...