nyansnarf:
A Day at the Bizarro: mister-snippy: Anti-feminists, sexists, and Men’s Rights Activists…
senor-bizarro:
mister-snippy:
Anti-feminists, sexists, and Men’s Rights Activists should not be allowed to breed. You all give a bad name to us males, and the last thing this world needs is a child raised under those ideals and beliefs.
Though some (note I said “some”- notably the more egalitarian)…
Um, except sane feminism (not the radfem bullshit) is already working on those, because patriarchy sucks all around and rigid gender roles are part of it?
Excellent! Please give me names of sane feminism writers, activists or blogs who are working against the existence of gender roles on both ends, without exception, and deconstruct both with equal scrutiny and ruthlessness; I would love to acquaintance myself with their work.
loldumblrlogic:
mister-snippy:
Anti-feminists, sexists, and Men’s Rights Activists should not be allowed to breed. You all give a bad name to us males, and the last thing this world needs is a child raised under those ideals and beliefs.
Please explain to me how I shouldn’t teach my children that feminism is often a movement that manipulates or uses incorrect statistics? That feminism sometimes uses fear tactics and emotionally manipulates women? That feminism often neglects to address issues men face and so if you are actually for equality you should, at the very least, look into other movements or take their ideas with a grain of salt? That some feminists are actually pretty rad people, but that you don’t have to identify as a feminist to care about women?
More importantly, please explain to me how I should teach my children, both girls and boys, how to be safe and defend themselves is wrong? How to respect each other and that consent is important and should be required? To teach both my girls and boys that saying no is okay and to ignore anyone who shames them for either having sex “too” much or not at all? (Example: Calling MRA’s virgins as if virginity is a bad thing.)
Please explain to me how teaching my children that yes, there are some serious issues men face and needs attention and help fixing such as circumcision and the bias in the court room regarding parental rights, domestic violence, crime, ect.?
Please explain to me how teaching my children to give a fuck about BOTH men and women makes me unfit as a parent?
Oh, OP. Do you mean feminists by “sexists”? Because I’ve seen as much of that in feminists as I do in traditionalists and gender essentialists, which is not a particularly encouraging observation. I would argue that someone so indoctrinated they can’t comprehend that it’s MRA and WRA that are the sides of the same coin, not feminism and WRA, shouldn’t, just maybe, pass on their beliefs, to anyone, but it’s probably useless considering that you have a blindspot the size of a small galaxy: plenty of MRAs (who are often also egalitarians, and also WRAs) are women. You’re barking at the wrong car, but I suppose I can’t blame you too much for being misguided; that’s just how your feminists trained you.
“You all give a bad name to us males<..>”. Oh, yes, you great big feminist. Funny how women (or should I say females?) suddenly don’t factor in the fight for equality and rights. At all. What this reveals is how incredibly narrow and ignorant your perspective is re:equality movements and how severely lacking in skepticism you are. You actually believe (like plenty of ignorant feminists tend to, no surprise here) that the only criticism of your ideology comes from a place of ignorance and bigotry instead of awareness and knowledge. People criticize feminism because it as an ideology; it’s not infallible. It does not equal women, it merely purports to fight for them. Whether or not it does, is another matter altogether. Which is the entire point, actually.
And it’s post-feminists, thank you, as in feminism infantilizes, patronizes and erases historical achievements of women consistently, uses emotional manipulation to control women and perpetuates itself by waging a false war of the sexes and by encouraging self-victimization instead of self-actualization and by enforcing traditional gender roles, and is itself more anti-women than anything, despite what it purports to be. Don’t always blindly believe what’s written on the tin, friend. It warps your perspective.
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It’s important, when listening to the official shapers of opinion in the media, to ask ourselves what they really mean by the words they use. As Orwell pointed out in “Politics and the English Language,” those in power use language to obscure meaning more often than to convey it.
A good example is the recurrence of phrases like “endangered our national security” and “aided the enemy,” from people like Eric Holder, Peter King and Lindsey Graham, in reference to leaks by people like Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden. Now, they certainly intend to evoke certain associations in the minds of listeners with their word choices. If you’re not careful, you may find yourself responding in just the way the users intend — allowing their words to conjure up in your mind homes, families, neighbors, churches, a whole way of life, threatened with invasion and destruction by a nameless, faceless enemy — in the words of Orwell’s Two-Minute Hate, “the dark armies … barbarians whose only honour is atrocity.”
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- Kevin Carson, Public Enemy Number One: The Public (via c4ss)
"In my first substantive discussion with Edward Snowden, which took place via encrypted online chat, he told me he had only one fear. It was that the disclosures he was making, momentous though they were, would fail to trigger a worldwide debate because the public had already been taught to accept that they have no right to privacy in the digital age."
- Glenn Greenwald (via azspot)
"Many people believe that they have nothing to fear from government/corporate surveillance because they have nothing to hide. But every bureaucracy is a solution in search of a problem, and if it can’t find a problem to fit its solution, they will redefine the problem. In the 1960s, the surveillance bureaucracies redefined anti-war and civil rights protests as communist enterprises; today the same bureaucracies redefine anti-war Quakers, environmentalists, and animal rights activists as “terrorists.” So political activists, no matter how benign, have good reasons to fear these bureaucracies. Again, most Americans do not worry, because they are not political activists, reporters, investigating legislators, or crusading attorneys general like Eliot Spitzer. Most Americans are like the Germans who did not fear the secret police because they were not Jews. But all Americans depend on reporters, leakers, and crusading legislators to keep government agencies and private corporations under control. So they should worry about government secrecy, the militarization of surveillance, the privatization of intelligence, and the role of corporate money in elections."
- Edward Snowden and the Real Issues (via azspot)
"I am not of the opinion that one can ever lack the power to express perfectly what one wants to write or say. Observations on the weakness of language, and comparisons between the limitations of words and the infinity of feelings, are quite fallacious. The infinite feeling continues to be as infinite in words as it was in the heart. What is clear within is bound to become so in words as well. This is why one need never worry about language, but at sight of words may often worry about oneself. After all, who knows within himself how things really are with him? This tempestuous or floundering or morass-like inner self is what we really are, but by the secret process by which words are forced out of us, our self-knowledge is brought to light, and though it may still be veiled, yet it is there before us, wonderful or terrible to behold."
- Franz Kafka (via blackestdespondency)
"Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant."
- Hunter S. Thompson (via likeafieldmouse)
