Top 10 Reasons Why No One Should Be A Feminist

By LifeInTheKnow:

1. The Label

Language is important. What would a movement under a gender biased name like masculism be about? Let’s say that somewhere it is “officially” stated it is about gender equality, and that the main purpose of this movement is to deal with the grave problem of male disposability. How long would it take for this movement to grow additional masculist “theories”, hyperboles, and engage in protracted struggle  to skew the system into one direction? How long would it take before being anti-masculist was taken as being anti-male?

The truth is, both sexes were disposable. In this excellent bestseller, The Myth of Male Power: Why Men are the Disposable Sex, psychologist Warren Farrell makes a compelling case that, like with all other species, survival was the framework that drove the gender positioning: women risked death in childbirth; men risked death in conflicts with other tribes and the environment. However, there is a critical difference: women’s disposability stemmed from biology; men’s disposability required socialization.
When you have a movement called feminism, it becomes very difficult to engage in an objective dialog about the true nature of things. As you try to have it, any criticism all too easily becomes conflated with attack on the female gender itself.
Furthermore, we have perfectly fine words like humanitarian or egalitarian. No extra baggage necessary.

2. The Incoherent Ideology

Mainstream media tends to portray feminism in a positive and superficial manner as only having the goal to provide equal economic and social opportunities for women. Yet, when you delve deeper into their “theories”, the foremost among them being the patriarchy, the cartoonish and simplistic nature of their intellectual framework is revealed. Patriarchy, as a societal system in which male gender is favored, does not exist. All data points to men always having much harder lives; lived shorter, committed suicide 3 to 4 times more often, worked the most difficult and dangerous jobs, used as meat fodder in senseless wars(often shamed by women into joining), and are less happy than women (even in non western countries with few exceptions).

Feminist theory of patriarchy is simply a convenient way to disregard biology and evolution as the sole driver of human behavior and, consequently, society. Before birth control had existed, sex and children had a very high correlation. Since women paid the highest cost for sex (children), society put greater emphasis on their purity and safety. Additionally, as mortality rate was generally very high and life expectancy low, women were not in a biological position to do much of anything except to ensure the continued survival of the species. Every single thing that feminism claims is a result of patriarchy is transparently rooted in biology. Only at the advent of science and technology have these biological drives and conditions been rendered far less important; medicine, mechanized agriculture, birth-control, baby formula, safe working conditions, etc.

It is estimated that prostate cancer, far greater cause of death, is 20 years behind the research than the breast cancer, which is unbelievably skewed in funding. Two out of every three dollars spent on health care is spent on women, and even if you don’t count pregnancy-related care, women still receive more medical care than men. Yet feminists still complain that women’s health is being “neglected”, and far too many of us credulously believe them. Of the 25 worst jobs, as ranked by the Jobs Related Almanac based on a combination of salary, stress, security, and physical demands, 24 of them are predominantly, if not almost entirely, male, which might explain why men commit over 80% of all suicides.

3. Illusion of Efficacy

If you look at today’s third world countries you will find that it is impossible to liberate women on the same level as their counterparts in Western countries. You might have already noticed that western feminists are mum about the plight of women (and men) in such countries, and that they are always far more likely to talk about perceived stereotypes in video games, T-shirts…than anything of real substance. This is because feminism never liberated women in western countries, and they are perfectly aware of this.
Advances in technology, science, and medicine made certain economic and biological realities unsustainable or irrelevant. Women predictably took advantage of this, and men recognized this new reality. There were no feminist theories and gender studies involved in this process. At the time, even women recognized this.

4. Making Stuff Up

Feminism is fraught with false assertions masquerading as statistical facts. A couple of big ones:

• In USA, 22%–35% of women who visit hospital emergency rooms due to domestic violence.
  It turns out that the Justice Department and the CDC were referring to the 40 million women who annually visit emergency rooms, but to women, numbering about 550,000 annually, who come to emergency rooms “for violence-related injuries.” Of these, approximately 37% were attacked by intimates. So, it’s not the case that 22%-35% of women who visit emergency rooms are there for domestic violence. The correct figure is less than half of 1%.
• One in five in college women will be sexually assaulted.
  The one-in-five figure is based on the Campus Sexual Assault Study, commissioned by the National Institute of Justice and conducted from 2005 to 2007. Two prominent criminologists, Northeastern University’s James Alan Fox and Mount Holyoke College’s Richard Moran, have noted its weaknesses:“The estimated 19% sexual assault rate among college women is based on a survey at two large four-year universities, which might not accurately reflect our nation’s colleges overall. In addition, the survey had a large non-response rate, with the clear possibility that those who had been victimized were more apt to have completed the questionnaire, resulting in an inflated prevalence figure.”Fox and Moran also point out that the study used an overly broad definition of sexual assault. Respondents were counted as sexual assault victims if they had been subject to “attempted forced kissing” or engaged in intimate encounters while intoxicated.
• Women earn 77 cents for every dollar a man earns—for doing the same work. 
  The 23-cent gender pay gap is actually the difference between the average earnings of all men and women working full-time. It does not account for differences in occupations, positions, education, job tenure or hours worked per week. When such relevant factors are considered, the wage gap narrows to the point of vanishing.
  Wage gap activists say women with identical backgrounds and jobs as men still earn less. But they always fail to take into account critical variables. Activist groups like the National Organization for Women have a fallback position: that women’s education and career choices are not truly free—they are driven by powerful sexist stereotypes. In this view, women’s tendency to retreat from the workplace to raise children or to enter fields like early childhood education and psychology, rather than better paying professions like petroleum engineering, is evidence of continued social coercion. 

Why do these fallacious claims have so much appeal and staying power? The biggest problem is notorious statistical illiteracy among journalists, feminist academics, and especially politicians. There is also an ingrained human tendency to be protective of women—stories of female exploitation are readily believed, and vocal skeptics risk appearing indifferent to women’s suffering. Finally, armies of advocates depend on “killer stats” to galvanize their cause. But killer stats obliterate distinctions between more and less serious problems and send scarce resources in the wrong directions.
They also promote bigotry and intolerance. The idea that American men are annually enslaving more than 100,000 girls, sending millions of women to emergency rooms, sustaining a rape culture and cheating women out of their rightful salary creates rancor in true believers and disdain in those who would otherwise be sympathetic allies.

5. Hypocrisy

One sure way to find out that feminism is not about gender equality but female supremacy is to actually listen what they say. There are countless examples of how their one sided approach to everyday life manifests.
Also, it is not hard to find what they really think; just go to one of their biggest online feminist networks –Tumblr, and type the words:

and as for their double standards when it comes down to objectification:

But this is perfectly fine, everything is in order as long as they are the ones who are doing it.

6. Dogmatic, Anti-scientific Hegemony

When other women raise scholarly objections to countless inaccuracies, falsehoods, outright foolishness, and misinformation in feminist theories and studies, they are ostracized and attacked, sometimes physically; a behavior reminiscent of a cult, not a movement for gender equality.
Some of the dissenting women who suffered these attacks: Christina Hoff Sommers, Camille Paglia, Wendy McElroy, Elaine Showalter, Erin Pizzey, Elizabeth Loftus.
Further still, they are often branded as tools of the patriarchy or enemy to women.

Feminists even try to penetrate hard sciences like biology, chemistry, math, and physics.
In Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science, co-authored by Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt, the attempts verge on lunacy. According to feminists arithmetic word problems are inherently sexist in their content, and hence can only be “liberated” by a feminist perspective. Here is one such example of evil patriarchy:

“Bob is a fireman who makes $40,000 a year. His boss, Fire Chief Larry has advised him that he will be receiving a 5% salary increase next year. What will his new yearly salary be?”

Feminist mathematics would alter fireman to firewoman (or perhaps fireperson); it would change the name Bob to Barbara. It would also alter Larry to Linda.
This is not a joke, they really mean it.

Not satisfied at having “liberated” mathematics from its “sexist” shackles, academic feminists have enlightened us about the sexist properties of DNA. Specifically, feminist biochemistry proposes that DNA is an instrument of male dominance as evidenced by its “master molecule” narrative (McElroy, 1996). There are countless other examples of “scientific contributions” arising from feminist theorists, however, I think you get the general idea.

7. Toxicity between Genders

The feminist movement has created a great deal of confusion and unpleasant atmosphere regarding the permissible dynamics between the sexes. Men and women no longer trust their instincts honed by evolution; instead they seek to adhere to new “feminist” rules of intersexual conduct, as they are highly fearful of being accused of being “sexist pigs” or “tools of the patriarchy”.
Places of business have become highly regulated, and men are now walking on eggshells. Even a simple compliment can be construed as sexual harassment or used as a leverage in advancing one’s career, and sexual contact is ever more increasingly used as a tool for petty revenge.

8. Pseudoscience

When you have an agenda you push conclusions before the hypothesis, exactly contra the scientific method. Some examples:

• Science Magazine and the University of Chicago Press own up that the “Peaceful Ancient Matriarchy” on Crete was just a politically-inspired fantasy. That is, after years of vigorous defense of their “work”
• In Is There Anything Good About Men?, Dr. Roy F. Baumeister gives an address to the American Psychological Association on August 24, 2007, it mentioned many works which portray men as subhuman, dangerous animals.
• Bonobos are often used in feminism as a celebrated example of peace-loving, sexually liberated matriarchy. Nothing could be further from the truth. ”Frans de Waal… who is the most frequently quoted authority on the species, has never seen a wild bonobo.” (Prepare yourself for the answer on how did so many bonobos lose their fingers, genitals, and toes if they’re so “non-aggressive”?)

9. Using the Violence of the State

We’ve discussed previously why taxation is immoral. Feminists, on the other hand, want nothing more than to use the state power to skew the justice system in favor of women, from disparity in sentencing for crimes, domestic violence, bizarre divorce and custody laws completely biased towards women, medical research, schooling, and healthcare costs.
Counting on other men to do their dirty work has been a huge success for the feminist movement.

10. Treating Women as Less Culpable

Let’s stop conflating the toxic, confused ideology of feminism with the equality for female gender. By doing that we are actively infantilizing women.
Women were always treated as less accountable than men in every area of life, while men were viewed as beasts of burden and war. Consequently, statistics clearly show that their life was and is much easier, far more comfortable, and the problems they face are given disproportionate attention and resources by several orders of magnitude.
It is a fact of nature that our sexually dimorphic species creates such fertile ground for women to exploit; the women are wonderful effect clearly demonstrating this. Let’s, for a change, treat them as adults, so they can stop skewing the whole society in their favor,  so that they can stop with the cartoonish patriarchy, which they use like a stick to get even greater privileges.

For once, instead of letting them blame the imaginary patriarchy for everything wrong in their lives; let’s stop perceiving them as delicate flowers, and start treating them as responsible adults. They were only able to skew the system so perversely because we infantilized them.
Let’s not indulge them when they seek to monetize their manufactured victimhood, and when they seek the equality of results instead of the equality of opportunity.

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