Not one person offered her a seat. And I thought — what these women are trying to achieve? If this is the equality was looking for, then we better put on spacesuits, because the road to hell is going to be flaming and quick.
I am a female. What I despise is being labelled or considered a part of some gender group. The word feminist annoys me. Enough said. I know many women are going to hate me for saying this, but I see feminism as a lame excuse, and I believe this issue is backfiring.
But first of all, it is bizarre to try and prove that men and women are the same. Secondly, why are we trying to draw ourselves as such victims and men as such monsters?
That is, to be a wife and a mother — why deny it? How is that oppression? How is that inequality? I DO expect a man to open a door in front of me. I expect a man to pay for my dinner if it was he who asked me out in the first place.
Is the ludicrously expensive diet cat food with which I have been lovingly starving her with little success for her at all, or is it symptomatic of my own battles with media-generated beauty ideals? I thought getting a pet was supposed to reduce stress.
Not for feminists, apparently. There are all sorts of lovely things about growing up Catholic. So you did something bad, little girl? Simply go into this darkened box with this creepy old man and tell him your secrets. When you come out, your soul will be sparkly clean. For those of you who have never made a confession, I can inform you the clean soul feeling is really nice. Ah, a brand new leaf. This is an excellent way of making women accept patriarchy and keeping them in their celestially decreed place.
This said, I think it must be easier to stop being a Protestant than to stop being a Catholic. Oh, Anna, how sexy I found your story when first I read it as a horny west of Ireland teenager with no access to erotic material.
How desperately romantic was your burning love for Vronsky, consummated breathily in a vestibule. You spurned the dull affections of your ugly eared husband; you listened to your heart, but — Anna! Years later, I returned to your story as a feminist. Big mistake. And, second, your problem with your husband is his ears? Not the fact that he married you when you were little more than a child and seems to think of you as an attractive, pleasant, son-bearing thing?
Stupid feminism. I loved that book. Bras — pretty, patterned, lacy things. Making your boobs look inhumanly spherical and providing entertainment when lovers try to remove them. I am modestly titty. There is no load to bear. I realised that I wore a bra only to hide my nipples. Why should I apologise for my female physicality by wearing a surgical support every day of my adult life? So I stopped attaching the elaborate nipple-disguiser to my chest. What do you think it means when Beyonce, or Barack Obama or even our Prime Minister says that they are a feminist?
I think that they are trying to get something. Beyonce wants to sell records, Barack Obama wants votes. They are capitalists, trying to sell a product. What are some of those questions? If they are hiring women in their staff, if they are collaborating with women of if they are just collaborating with men. If they are collaborating with women, do they pay their female collaborators as much as they pay their male collaborators?
It just creates a culture that is so focused on the individual and so focused on selfishness and greed, rather than structural changes. Those are the things that actually matter. We talk a lot about the gains women have made in the last few decades - representation in politics, some gains in business - do you see those as the goals of feminism?
But unless there is the political ideology of feminism that these women or men are forwarding than it seems like a cosmetic change. Feminism has taken on too many of the patriarchal values of selfishness, competition, money, power.
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