The True Nature of Feminism

Anyone familiar with my blog is fairly familiar with my take on feminism. My assertions are often countered by women proclaiming that feminism isn’t really bad; that the things I relate are only representative of a small, extreme, fringe element, are taken out of context or, the ultimate denial, that they are simply not a part of feminism. I addressed this contention in my post The Truth About Feminism. Despite the plethora of supporting evidence to my position presented in this post, I continue to receive comments from self-proclaimed feminists denying the dark and insidious nature of feminism.

I’m often astounded by how little these women actually know and understand about the movement they support. I can’t imagine choosing to label myself something without an extensive knowledge and understanding of that label, yet, women continue to label themselves feminists while refusing to accept or believe what feminism really is.

There seems to be a perpetual attempt to reinvent and reclaim feminism….something tantamount to trying to reinvent and reclaim Nazism in my eyes. It doesn’t matter how you repackage or try to sell it…it’s never going to be anything more than a hate movement. Anything built upon a foundation of hate and lies will always eventually fall back to the invidious roots that support it.

Feminism was never a peaceful, loving movement interested only in equal treatment and opportunity for all. Even with today’s attempt to package it up to appear more palatable, feminists still fail to make even the merest pretense of caring about the rights or concerns of anyone besides women. When was the last time you saw a feminist say, “Holy crap! Women are falsely accusing men of rape right and left….we need to do something about this!”? How many feminists have you heard express concern for the disproportionate number of men committing suicide or sitting in jail? How many feminists concern themselves with the rights of men to have access to their children?

Feminists go so far as to justify and even celebrate injustices and misfortunes that befall men if they believe those miseries will somehow benefit women. It’s “good” for a man to be raped because then he will have more empathy for the plight of female rape victims. It’s acceptable for innocent men to sit in jail, wrongly accused and convicted, if it means eliminating the odd chance that an actual rapists goes free.

Feminists could care less about men, families, children, society….unless it somehow directly affects or benefits women. They could care less about any injustices suffered by men…because feminism is built on a foundation of hatred and lies; hatred for the natural differences of and the bonds between men and women; lies that women have been perpetually abused and oppressed by men.

Feminists have no concern for men because they believe that men deserve any injustices that befall them. They want men to pay and to suffer for abuses allegedly perpetrated against women. At heart, they are destructively jealous of masculinity and loathing of femininity.

Feminism refuses to acknowledge or recognize the sacrifices of men. Women were not oppressed by men. They were cared for, loved and sheltered by men. Men fought, bled and died for their wives and children. The greatest love of all is to lay down one’s life for another…and this is what feminists have dubbed “oppression”….effectively twisting and vilifying tremendous love and sacrifice.

Feminism is not and never was a movement for the majority of women. It was engendered by a small subset of women, predominantly lesbian, who truly sought and desired for the sexes to be separate. The average woman’s idea of Utopia is in no way parallel to that inspired by feminism. A world where the bonds between men and women have been broken is not a world that most women want. Women have allowed feminists, a group that in no way represents their interests or desires....to represent their interests and desires.

So feminists, please, spare me the rhetoric about the "true nature" of feminism. I know, far better apparently then you do, the true nature of feminism. Feminism is a hate movement. It is only concerned with expanding it's own perverse and fallacious concept of the interests of women....expanding them at the expense of everyone and everything else. I'm not interested in trying to distort the truth in order to make it more palatable. Feminism is the rattle snake on the mountain....I know what it is and I'm not interested in picking it up.

I'm Not A Spoiled Brat!

I'm was driving through town today, navigating the hustle and bustle that predictably accompanies this time of year with everyone getting their kids ready to go back to school. As I was sitting at an intersection waiting for the light to turn, I noticed the personalized license plate frame on the Audi in front of me. It read, "I'm not a spoiled brat....I'm not, I'm not, I'm not!"

Now, I could understand this slogan being emblazoned on the t-shirt of a precocious toddler but the car in question was being driven by a woman who appeared to be in her mid-thirties. A mom, with children of her own, who had chosen to proudly proclaim herself a spoiled brat.

I remember as a small child being admonished to not behave like a spoiled brat. Being labeled thus was embarrassing and humiliating. It was definitely not a badge of honor or something to boast about as we see from the woman in question. I would like to suggest that this woman is a rarity or an aberration but that simply isn't the case. The attitude conveyed by that ridiculous license plate frame sums up much of what is wrong with modern women who choose to proudly display their immaturity, selfishness and disregard for others. They revel in their ability to abjure personal responsibility and brag about being able to get away with behaving like spoiled children.

I happen to feel intensely sorry for this woman's husband, along with all husbands who are married to women like her, who, instead of a partner and help meet, are burdened with an additional child to raise....a child that they cannot ground, punish or restrict....a child with the ability to take from them everything they hold dear should she not get her own way.

A marriage is supposed to be a collaboration of adults...two people joined and working together....fully committed to the best interests of their marriage and family. It is not supposed to be a man shouldering all responsibility, not only for the children he sires, but also for the adult he's married to.

Children should have the benefit of being raised by adults...mature individuals who are able to teach them fundamental lessons on behavior and accountability. How can we possibly expect children to understand the value of personal responsibility when they are being raised by women who flaunt their ability to avoid such responsibiliy? How is a young girl going to understand the value she should bring as a wife and mother if she is raised by a woman who ignores her obligations in exchange for the ability to behave as a spoiled child.

As a wife and mother, I tend not to think in terms of me or what I want. I think about my family; what is best for my marriage and how I can best serve the interests of my children because that is my responsibility....the obligation I accepted when I chose to get married and to have children. There is no room as a wife and mother for behaving like a spoiled, selfish, immature child. It is a mother's job to teach her children not to behave thus, teaching first and foremost through her own example.

Because We Can

During a press conference for her new movie, Jennifer Aniston announced,

“Women are realizing it more and more knowing that they don’t have to settle with a man just to have that child,”

Hate to break it to her...but women have realized this for some time now...hence the plethora of children currently being raised by single moms in western society.

Now, it may come as a surprise, but I don't intend to spend the majority of this post decrying feminism's destructive attack upon fathers and the nuclear family....destructive as it's been. Nor am I going to spend very much time detailing the appalling manner in which Ms. Aniston has relegated the bearing and nurturing of children to the status of some mundane and inconsequential endeavor ("just to have that child"). Stepping aside from this and Ms. Aniston's despicable, yet entirely too predictable, 'father's are unnecessary' rhetoric, I would like to specifically address her emphasis on what women 'can' do.

Today, women have limitless options of what they 'can' do...which feminists aggressively wield as symbols of female strength and empowerment.

We got it...women can do anything they want.

We can dress in next to nothing and parade ourselves through the streets if we want, we can sleep with as many men as we can fit into a day if we want, we can abort our children or choose to keep them and sue for child support if we want, we can walk out on our marriages if we want, we can have children and condemn them to a life without ever knowing a father if we want...all free from censure because woe unto anyone who dares question, judge or condemn us for our actions.

What a disturbing and shallow thing our empowered, modern day women have become....so consumed with proving what they can do that they've lost all sense of what they should do.

Growing up, even as a small child, I understood that just because we can do something doesn't mean that we should and that to act to the detriment of others was wrong. It's time that women, instead of triumphing over our ability to do anything we want because we can, regardless of its affect upon others, society our even our own souls....start focusing on whether or not we should. It's time to start asking the morally relevant questions....in fact, it's long past time.

The very best possible scenario is for children to be born to parents who want and love them and to be raised with both a mother and a father in the home. A woman should never plan to have children without a father who is actively involved in his/her life because children need a father.

According to the logic of Aniston and her ilk, if a woman wants a baby she is simply entitled to have one. What is intrinsically wrong with this thinking is that it's egocentric and rooted in selfishness....and parenthood, when done correctly, is the single most selfless endeavor a human being can undertake. There is no room for puerile, narcissistic whim when it comes to the caring for and bringing forth of life.

I'm weary of hearing about what women want and what they can do when we should be focusing on what's right, what is best for the whole and for the betterment of society. What does it matter what I want or what I can do if it comes at the detriment of others? Why should an innocent child be forced to pay for the entitlement of women? Why should anyone? Why should marriage and families be destroyed and society subsequently fail all so women are able to prove that they can do what they want?

Feminists Celebrating Abortion

Anti-life feminists are ecstatically heralding a recent episode of 'Friday Night Lights' for it's "bravery" in the way it has handled a situation of teenage pregnancy. As for the details, I'll have to take their word on it because I don't watch the show, but, apparently, the feminist glee revolves around the decision of 15 year old Becky Sproles to have an abortion.

http://community-classic.feministing.com/2010/07/im-rooting-for-an-abortion-thi.html

One article on feministing.com was entitled, 'I'm rooting for an abortion this Friday night'. Does that seem odd to you for those who purport to defend choice? It's the reason I choose to call those who are pro-abortion 'anti-life' instead of the more PC 'pro-choice'. I've yet to see a self-proclaimed 'pro-choicer' celebrate when a women chooses not to abort a child. It's only when an unplanned pregnancy ends in abortion that feminist's start celebrating it and call it "pro-female", as a subsequent feministing.com article praised the 'Friday Night Lights' episode for being.

http://feministing.com/2010/08/06/dont-mess-with-tami/

Apparently, getting pregnant and choosing to have the baby is anti-female and anti-choice. The only choice that is acceptable and brave by feminist standards is the one that ends in choosing to kill your unborn child. Making the truly laudable decisions, such as altering your life for the life of another and taking responsibility for your actions, is deemed unworthy of commendation. Wholly unsurprising, I suppose, for a movement that promotes selfishness and a lack of accountability in women.

In the Washington Post, Gloria Feldt, former president of Planned Parenthood, similarly praises this episode of 'Friday Night Lights'. Ms. Feldt, in her promotion of abortion, proclaims,

Even before Roe v. Wade legalized it in 1973, abortion was common. Most everyone knew of someone who had died from a back-alley abortion, or a child who had been orphaned by one. The abortion rights movement was, as a result, intimately connected to the larger women's rights movement.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/23/AR2010072302432.html

Really? I was born shortly after Roe v. Wade, but, for the sake of understanding, I've asked my mom, grandmas, aunts....not one of them ever knew anyone, or even knew someone who knew someone, who had died in a back-alley abortion. They knew that such a thing occasionally happened, but it was far from the common occurrence Ms. Feldt would like her readers to believe it to have been. Women were not dying in droves in American back-alleys pre-1973. The vast, vast majority of women who became pregnant did what women have been doing since humans first walked the Earth...they had babies.

1972 was the last full year before Roe vs. Wade. For that year, the federal Centers for Disease Control reported that 39 women died due to illegal abortion. Now, I'm not one to make little of the deaths of 39 women, but it's an exchange I'd be willing to make for the MILLION or so babies that are aborted annually in the U.S. And, please, spare me the poor women who are victims of rape and incest angle...don't get me wrong, I don't think anyone who is a victim of rape or incest should be forced to bear the child, but a 2000 study in the U.S. showed the percentage of pregnancies aborted because of incest or rape as a whopping 1%. Yep, you read that correctly, 1%. The top three reasons a woman has an abortion?

25.5% Want to postpone childbearing
21.3% Cannot afford a baby
14.1% Has relationship problem or partner does not want pregnancy

Abortions due to risk to maternal health? 2.8%

Overwhelmingly, the reasons women choose to abort their children have nothing to do with life threatening conditions, rape or incest. Of course, our abortion applauding feminists are fully aware of and quite comfortable with this fact.

Make no mistake, feminists consider each every baby aborted a victory for 'the cause'.