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Deconstructing Feminism

by ~ToxicWyvern, Dec 10, 2012, 11:55:17 AM
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Below is a comment from deviant a9fc8yt3kd1 [link]. It deconstructs the idea that men spent their time keeping women down.

"If anything, most societies throughout history have held women higher than men. Although there has been plenty of suffering throughout history, from war, famine and plague, I believe that in most cases the men suffered worse than the women. In fact, although it may seem counter-intuitive, I believe that the true oppression of women ORIGINATED with the women's suffrage movement. Let me explain: In nearly all societies throughout history, it has been the role of men to gather the resources necessary to provide for their families, and it has been the role of women to use those resources to care for their families. In hunter-gatherer societies, the men spent their time hunting and fishing, and the women spent their time cooking the fish and animals which the men brought back, gathering wood for the cooking fires, making clothes from the skins of the animals, washing the clothes, and so forth. In later agrarian societies, the men spent all day farming and the women spent all day keeping house.

Later, when the industrial revolution happened, men spent all day working in factories and construction zones, and the women spent all day keeping house. Now, most people today perceive those arrangements as being founded upon a belief in the inferiority of women. In other words, "The men were allowed to do all of the cool and exiting jobs because they were men, whereas the women were forced to spend all of their time taking care of the home because that was all that the men thought they were good for." I personally can't think of anything more untrue. I believe that this perception stems from the misguided priorities of modern society.

Today, we are convinced that money and material wealth are the only things which matter. If that were true, then working a full-time job would certainly be a privilege, and being forced to stay home and keep house would certainly be very degrading. However, most societies throughout history did not value money and material wealth above all else. Instead, most cultures have traditionally valued FAMILY above all else, as I believe that we also should. Indeed, I believe that the jobs and careers which feminists so long for are, in and of themselves, completely and utterly worthless. The only good purpose which they can possibly serve is to provide the monetary resources to care for one's FAMILY. Once we understand that nothing is more valuable or important than family, we suddenly see that caring for and nurturing one's family is not a lowly and degrading job, but is in fact THE GREATEST PRIVILEGE THERE IS!

Rather than saying that men forced women to stay home and care for the family and household so that the men could have the privilege of working all day at their various jobs, it would be much more appropriate to say that men have historically taken upon themselves the RESPONSIBILITY of working at various jobs and careers so that women could have the PRIVILEGE of caring for their families, and women were historically content with this arrangement because they also understood the importance of family. "

TL; DR Feminists say that women were chained to the home and that all men could do whatever they wanted. In reality , men had their own set of roles and responsibility and these roles were life threatening.

I would also add a few things. (The below does not apply to all societies, but it does describe the general trends)

The "Rule of Thumb" is a complete lie. Wife beating was never encourage. In fact, wife beaters were severely punished. (Look up Wife Beater's Pole). Also, men were were beaten by their wives were humiliated ([link]

Rape was not encouraged or even allowed. It was often punished by death or castration.

Also, while women did not have many career options neither did men. Men did whatever their fathers/grandfathers/ etc did. There was no chance for upward mobility (if your father mined coal, you mined coal too ans you did it without complaint). Women were expected to take care of the home, but men were expected to provided and care for women and the family. Working outside the home was a responsibly, not a privilege. At times of war, men were sent off to fight while women took control of male's positions (this is especially true in societies like the Spartans and Vikings).

Speaking of war, voting rights were often tied with the draft. Men could only vote if they signed up for the draft. Many cultures would shame men who didn't want to fight and men were often put to death for refusing to fight. Feminists love to say that there would be no wars if women ruled the world but this is just plan false. I'm sure there were plenty of female monarchs that had no problem sending men out to their deaths.

If you honestly compare the way women were treated with the way people of different races were treated, you could almost say women were worshiped.

If people want gender equality, they should free both genders of their roles rather than blame men for everything. The vast majority of men were seen as expendable pawns and they had no say in anything that went on in society.

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10 Reasons to Oppose Feminism

by ~lordmep, 1 week, 4 days ago
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I encourage you visit Just Smith on his site because he has a bunch of citations which I was unable to copy. [link]

Reason 1: Some feminists advocate the systematic murder, castration or destruction of men, and more moderate and less bigoted portions of the movement ignore, tolerate and refuse to speak out against these bigots.

Reason 2: Feminist advocates throughout the history of the movement have marginalized women of color, transwomen, poor women and many other types of women. While this is less common now, it still takes place and is unacceptable in a movement supposedly dedicated to equality.

Reason 3: Feminist academics have been proven to use poor research practices, purposely distorting data to meet ideological ends. By ignoring the sanctity of academic study, they have not only cast doubt on legitimate research but also dishonored their obligations as scientists.

Reason 4: Feminist advocates have purposely misrepresented studies for ideological purposes, such as quoting a study’s findings of abuse against women while ignoring the finding of the same study that abuse against men was more frequent, and using this to justify increased resources dedicated to the protection of women despite the research having found similar levels of abuse.

Reason 5: Feminist advocates have fabricated studies, such as the “Super Bowl Battering” case where a journalist checking his facts found that while the university in question had indeed conducted a study of the subject, the results were completely incongruent with what feminist advocates had claimed.

Reason 6: Feminist advocates have purposely impeded research which does not agree with ideological goals, including harassing, organizing protests and lobbying against academics completely uninvolved with advocacy. Feminist advocates have lobbied repeatedly to block funding for studies which cite female perpetration or male victimization of domestic violence and rape.

Reason 7: Feminist advocates have actively suppressed studies and data (same citation as above) which do not agree with ideological goals.

Reason 8: Feminist advocates have repeatedly continued to promulgate myths such as the wage gap, 2% levels of false rape allegation, low levels of domestic violence committed by women and the “rule of thumb,” despite them having been long-since refuted. Advocates often refuse to back down from their positions even when presented with conclusive evidence that they are promoting something that simply isn’t true.

Reason 9: Feminist advocates have systematically attacked rule of law, lobbying for insane laws which create further discrimination in family courts already biased against men. Advocates have pushed laws which remove constitutional protections and void due process for people accused of rape or domestic violence, especially in universities, and laws such as VAWA designed specifically to protect women, despite men being the significant majority of the victims of violent crime and severe bias within the courts against accused men.

Reason 10: Feminist advocates claim feminism as simultaneously a ”women’s movement” and a “movement about equality.” However, they claim that while feminism is the only equality movement we need it has no obligation to address the issues faced by men, and that men should create their own movement to address those….the same movement just described as unneeded. Advocates demonize those that oppose them, falsely equating opposition to feminism with opposition to equality.

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feminism: you're doing it wrong

by ~In-The-Machine, Mar 15, 2012, 5:48:27 PM
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I like how a female is more likely to get flack for not liking a character (especially one of the same gender) and accused of self-hatred or misogyny than a male would. I also like how females are more likely to overlook if the person hating on a female character is a guy because apparently focusing on alleged self-hating and misogyny with females in fandom takes precedence over a dude saying something possibly sexist and focusing on witch-hunting self-hating females is more important.

"Boy, I'm really glad the new mystery character to be introduced into the series won't be a female because I SHUDDER TO THINK of all the supposed HATE and MISOGYNY she'll get from the FEMALES IN THIS FANDOM," I say to myself at a hypocritically backwards attempt at feminism in which I blatantly assume that most other female members of my own gender are inherently hateful and misogynistic towards their own gender while self-righteously putting myself on a pedestal to judge my own sex and make the assumption that females are inherently out to hurt one another.

That. That right there is pretty much fucked up in it's own right. I see a -lot- of that in fandom with girls who apparently think they're doing some sort of social good by making such judgements when it's actually pretty judgmental and derogatory and you end up contradicting yourself by accusing your gender of all being self-haters and misogynists while making yourself out to be somehow exempt or 'above' such behavior just because not everyone has the same taste in female characters as you.

"Ugh, i hate how these fucking bitches are so full of self-hate and internalized misogyny i bet they'll all hate this new female character just because she's female ugh fuck my gender ugh females are so fucking sexist ugh ugh ugh."
And yet you're the one making that assumption by openly saying that you expect other females to inherently act that way and be venomous, vile, creatures by nature towards their own gender. I also find it laughable that you apparently think men don't engage in such behavior. I've heard things like,

"christ, that faggot spends so much time on his fucking hair what a shit"
"he spends too much time on his appearance that's disgusting"
"what a fucking meathead"
"fucking jockbag with his fucking sports"
"that guy is such a pussy for crying like that at the concert"
"i bet hes got a car like that to compensate for something lol"
"all steve dates is ugly chicks what the fuck is he blind"

Newsflash, if you're a female who thinks people tearing each other down for shallow reasons is solely limited to females, you're pretty incorrect. And you're pretty much the same thing that you claim to condemn so much.

I've also noticed that, say, a 13-14 year old girl is more likely to get shit for not liking a female character or not liking a female for getting in the way of her "OTP" than a grown man making a comment about how the female Ghost Rider sucked because "a woman should be a thing of beauty" or she apparently "failed" as a character otherwise (yes, I've actually seen these comments, except, you know, people didn't seem to think it was problematic).
I think hating a character over something as silly as non-canon OTPs is stupid at the best of times, and there's a lot I don't like about younger kids, but at least when they're 13 or 14 or 15 or whatever they have time to grow up and learn otherwise. Some behavior is less excusable than others, but I've seen more young girls getting flack or ganged up on by so-called "protectors of female characters" for not liking a female character even when it has nothing to do with OTP or her "getting in the way of yaoi" or even her gender than a full-grown man on this site or others making derogatory or dismissive comments about women and these "protector of female characters" don't have nearly half as much to say about it. Because why focus on a grown, adult male talking shit about women when you could spew for endless hours about how everyone else with a vagina is an inherently sexist monster and how a 13-year-old girl deserves to get physically beaten or have her profile bombarded with insults by said "protectors of female characters" (ironically enough) because she doesn't like the same female character as you? (this isn't to say that I haven't seen guys get called out for it, because I certainly have, and justifiably so. But when you're a self-proclaimed female that's apparently looking to "empower" by stalking dissenters online that are usually in the early teen group or females that just have different taste in fictional characters than you while completely disregarding the openly sexist actions and words of full grown men you've already fucked up. Especially when you become more openly hostile to a female who doesn't like a particular fictional  female character for whatever reason than a male of the same age group and fandom who similarly doesn't like the same female character).

Which is another thing. Some girls apparently go off the handle at anyone who doesn't like a female character for something, but I've noticed a fair number of chicks who won't care what's said about female characters in general until -her- favorite female is "attacked" or "insulted" and then flings out how "sexist" her fandom is or how "misogynist" it is. In one instance I've seen someone on a Homestuck Secrets blog accuse Andrew Hussie of being a "misogynist" for killing off their favorite "psychologically complex three-dimensional" female character. Remember, this is character he created in the first place. The post can also be seen here: [link]
and another case where someone accused the HTTYD fandom of being "sexist" because one person said they didn't think either Astrid or Ruffnut were good for Hiccup. They didn't say, "i hate the fucking bitches i want hiccup alll 2 myself" or "i hate them becuz theyre gurlz," just "I don't think either character is a good fit."
Look, I really liked Ruffnut as a character, but I don't automatically assume someone is sexist just because they don't like the same female character as me. And, seriously, as much as I like her character and design, I don't really entertain the idea of her and Hiccup as a couple either and I can sort of see why someone would say that. It's called "preference," a word which here means "not everyone likes the same shit that you like."

Yes, I can acknowledge that some level of misogyny among women exists in fandoms, but Ill also say that I've seen more "witch hunting" for alleged "female misogynists" in fandom and unfounded bullshit accusations of "self-hating sexist females" than I've actually seen real cases of. If anything, I find the fact females are so hair-trigger ready to be self-righteous and readily accusatory of other females in fandom to be pretty sexist in itself. And it's bullshit that girls have to jump on other girls at the drop of a pin for not preferring or liking a certain fictional female character or giving her shit because "she didn't give enough reasons for not liking this character so I have every right to assume it's misogynist and can accuse her of such."
Bullshit. No you don't. What you're doing is vilifying your own gender and being pretty hateful yourself. Secondly, you think only females do that sort of thing? Men can get pretty shallow and shitty with each other, so I'm not sure why you're holding females to one "magical princess good girls everyone loves everyone or else" standard and vilifying anything less for stupid reasons when you don't even hold the same standard for males.

To add to that, I've seen instances of girls "bragging" about how they're a female that prefers and draws hetero and femmeslash and are somehow "less shallow" or "more feminist" or progressive because of it. You know how ridiculous it is when teenage girls (or anyone) claim they're automatically "gay rights" activists because they like or draw yaoi?  Yeah, this is pretty much the same thing. I've encountered yaoi fans I really didn't like or care for as well as pairings I didn't care for, but to shame one group of girls for liking one thing or making those who prefer one to the other seem more "shallow" than you just because of their preference is, to me, nonsensical in this case (I've also encountered het fans and femmeslash fans guilty of similar stupidity and the idiocy isn't exactly limited specifically to one group either). You can like all of these things or prefer one to the other and still be a feminist so there's no justifiable reason to put one down or exalt the other. They're not any more or less "shallow" than you, they just have different preferences.

And most of the people (especially girls) who didn't like the characters I liked had reasons that had nothing to do with OTPs, their gender, or the character in question "getting in the way" of anything. Imagine that.  (Additionally, I've noticed some girls take to "stabbing back" at the person who said they didn't like the same female characters by leaving insulting comments or messages on stuff that had to do with the character or the character preferences of the person (usually a girl) who said they didn't like the other person's character despite the fact they accused the other girl of being "fucking sexist." Derp. That's now how empowerment works, hypocrite).  I actually had an instance where someone made multiple false accounts to leave hostile notes and comments towards me because I said I didn't like a particular character from a fandom and they called me "sexist" before leaving more threatening messages, wishing me physical harm, leaving insulting messages on deviations for a female character whose popularity rivaled that of their favorite character's, insulting female characters they knew I was a fan of to "get back" at me, and leaving a number of blatantly homophobic slurs towards me in between it all.
So no. I don't believe a lot of you so-called "protectors of female characters" are what you make yourself out to be, and I think a lot of you are quite venomous, readily hostile, and judgmental towards you own gender (or others you perceive to be female online or elsewhere even when you don't actually know) and have piss-poor "hair-trigger" excuses for acting the way you do with poor justification for what's evidently your own internalized issues.

But to jump back to the subject of female characters, if someone else I don't know doesn't like the same female characters as me, I just assume they have a different preference. If you're someone whose mind automatically sends off an "omg sexist bitch with self-hate and sexism issues!111" alarm bell when someone else (especially a female) says they don't like or prefer a character (especially a female one) you like, then you're the one with the internalized problem, not them.
When people tell me they don't prefer a female character I like in normal conversation or inoffensively stating an opinion?
My reaction to most of these the vast majority of the time:
Oh, okay.

Sometimes it can really be that simple.

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On USPH, BruPili and Feminism

by ~choco-java, Aug 29, 2012, 4:13:50 AM
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*This is what happens when my professor makes me read too much feminist articles*
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Like I already said in JC's deviation yesterday:

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I'm sorry if any of our Tumblr posts offended you. By the way...please do post your thoughts there.

So another thing, even if I'm a BruPili shipper now, I will try to remain neutral in writing this journal. I know that most of the people who don't like the USPH ship keeps on pointing on 'historical inaccuracies' and that those who don't like the BruPili ship points out that the historical interaction between them is so small and had little effect on the whole country.

Now. Before everybody starts debating on the reasons I stated above, I shall raise an argument that every fan should look upon on both sides of the 'shipping war'. Whether USPH, BruPili, MexiPiri, KorPiri or whatever PH ship.

Why did you even make your Philippines (or actually, any country) OC of yours a girl?

I plead guilty that the reason my first Philippines OC is a girl is because she was made for shipping purposes. And yeah, I was a USPH fan. So what's wrong with making a female OC then?

Well, nothing really. The bad thing though is if you made that OC just so you can pair her with a male character. Now think for yourself. I know most of the people reading this journal are girls younger than me. Would you be happy to be defined by a male partner? I don't know about you guys, but I won't be.

Like I said, I'm.........older (

) than most of the people here and I'm proud to say I lived seventeen years of my life without having to depend on a man other than my Paps. I'm a proud NBSB (no boyfriend since birth) because I don't need a male partner to function in life.

Now back to OC making, I'm proud to have created characters that could stand alone without having to ship them. Well...yes, I ship Luzon with Brunei but admit it....he has his own personality that doesn't rely on the PhilBru ship.

. . . . okay, I'm being narcissistic. I'll get back to the point.

YOU PEOPLE WHO KEEP MAKING PIRI OC'S JUST FOR SHIPPING PURPOSES!!!! STOP IT AND READ WHAT I HAVE TO SAY!!!!

I'm disappointed because I know that you yourselves are women. Why would you want to make a character that needs a dude to survive?? Oh, and I said that I'd be neutral in this journal but I must admit, most of these Piri depictions come from the USPH side. For God's sake guys...WE ARE AWESOME! We don't go crying out for a hero to save us!! Our people are known to be one of the best when it comes to guerilla warfare. WE. ARE. BAD. ASS!!!

I know a LOT of girls have this fantasy of having a knight in shining armor, but please...try not to self-insert when making Fan arts and Fanfics. (That applies to ALL ships...okay dudes???) This is a Philippines-tan (or any other country) you are making, consider if what you make her to be offends other Filipinos. And dude! We ARE a community..if you need any help, infos, ideas, we are always here to help out. Why do you think I make such an effort to open discussion threads, research stuff and type very long comments to people? Simple. I do NOT want people to remain IGNORANT.

The Ignorance must end.

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It Seems Many People Gravely Misconstrue Feminism

by *Raven913, Dec 22, 2011, 4:58:41 PM
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I have encountered many people who seem to think that "feminist" means "hates men."

It doesn't. Feminism means believing that women are equal to men, and thus should have the same rights. It's not trying to take anything away from men; it's trying to give both genders the same privileges, the natural rights that every human being deserves. Neither men nor women should be owned by or own one another, neither should be above the other in social station just because of their gender.

A lot of self-proclaimed "anti-feminists" seem to be arguing against something completely different: "misandry," the hatred of men (the male counterpart of misogyny). True feminism in no way condones misandry.

EDIT: Holy cow, I did not expect this to elicit so much response! Wow.

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White woman's privilege and Feminism

by *dan-zigg, Mar 31, 2013, 8:54:24 PM
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[link]

A little article about the creation of first wave feminism and the upper class woman who created it.
This does somewhat explain a lot of the entitlements that many modern feminists demand (more woman in the senate, affirmative action, hiring quotas and ect.)

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UK women betray feminism

by ~lordmep, Feb 25, 2013, 6:55:05 AM
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It appears that women in the UK are simply not doing what they're told. Feminists say that women should want to get jobs of power in the government, but these ungrateful women are instead making their own decisions. How dare they think for themselves. Don't they know that feminism is their only option? [link] Of course, these feminists are only upset at the decline of women in positions of power, not in the crap jobs like coal mining and fishing.

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Hispanic women and Feminism

by !elysiandroptrooper, Dec 20, 2011, 5:50:22 PM
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Hispanic women ussually make up a large sum of the labor force when it comes to Nannies, we are about 30% of the US military and I can't even begin to mention the ammount of work Hispanics do in construction. Now hispanic women are regularly employed by women with high demand and high paying jobs. So why aren't hispanic women feminists? Well to qoute my Great Grandma "I lived for 98 years and had a happy life and none of that happiness came to me by the way of feminists." Yes in those words more or less is probably why hispanic women aren't feminists, that and they are probably busy raising some feminist bitch's child for a living and have to take care of their children at night. So in all they don't have time to be feminists. Hell have you ever tried to bullshit a hispanic woman? I live with them its not possible, so since feminists use lies so often a hispanic woman is likely to throw a chair I mean throw a fit. Hispanics don't like bullshit never have never will and our women like it less. So if you treat a myth like reality and give it to a hispanic woman and its not call Chupa Cabra you'll get hit by a chair!

The Ten Most Common Feminist Myths:

1. Myth: One in four women in college has been the victim of rape or attempted rape.

Fact: This mother of all factoids is based on a fallacious feminist study commissioned by Ms. magazine. The researcher, Mary Koss, hand-picked by hard-line feminist Gloria Steinem, acknowledges that 73 percent of the young women she counted as rape victims were not aware they had been raped. Forty-three percent of them were dating their "attacker" again.

Rape is a uniquely horrible crime. That is why we need sober and responsible research. Women will not be helped by hyperbole and hysteria. Truth is no enemy of compassion, and falsehood is no friend.

(Nara Schoenberg and Sam Roe, "The Making of an Epidemic," Toledo Blade, October 10, 1993; and Neil Gilbert, "Examining the Facts: Advocacy Research Overstates the Incidence of Data and Acquaintance Rape," Current Controversies in Family Violence eds. Richard Gelles and Donileen Loseke, Newbury Park, CA.: Sage Publications, 1993, pp.120-132; and Campus Crime and Security, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Education, 1997. *According to this study, campus police reported 1,310 forcible sex offenses on U.S. campuses in one year. That works out to an average of fewer than one rape per campus.)

2. Myth: Women earn 75 cents for every dollar a man earns.

Fact: The 75 cent figure is terribly misleading. This statistic is a snapshot of all current full-time workers. It does not consider relevant factors like length of time in the workplace, education, occupation, and number of hours worked per week. (The experience gap is particularly large between older men and women in the workplace.) When economists do the proper controls, the so-called gender wage gap narrows to the point of vanishing.

(Essential reading: Women's Figures: An Illustrated Guide to the Economic Progress of Women in America, by Diana Furchtgott-Roth and Christine Stolba, published by the Independent Women's Forum and the American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C. 2000.)

3. Myth: 30 percent of emergency room visits by women each year are the result of injuries from domestic violence.

Fact: This incendiary statistic is promoted by gender feminists whose primary goal seems to be to impugn men. Two responsible government studies report that the nationwide figure is closer to one percent. While these studies may have missed some cases of domestic violence, the 30% figure is a wild exaggeration.

(National Center for Health Statistics, National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 1992 Emergency Department Summary , Hyattsville, Maryland, March 1997; and U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, Violence-Related Injuries Treated in Hospital Emergency Departments: Washington, D.C., August 1997.)

4. Myth: The phrase "rule of thumb" originated in a man's right to beat his wife provided the stick was no wider than his thumb.

Fact: This is an urban legend that is still taken seriously by activist law professors and harassment workshoppers. The Oxford English Dictionary has more than twenty citations for phrase "rule of thumb" (the earliest from 1692), but not a single mention of beatings, sticks, or husbands and wives.

(For a definitive debunking of the hoax see Henry Ansgar Kelly, "Rule of Thumb and the Folklaw of the Husband's Stick," The Journal of Legal Education, September 1994.)

5. Myth: Women have been shortchanged in medical research.

Fact: The National Institutes of Health and drug companies routinely include women in clinical trials that test for effectiveness of medications. By 1979, over 90% of all NIH-funded trials included women. Beginning in 1985, when the NIH's National Cancer Center began keeping track of specific cancer funding, it has annually spent more money on breast cancer than any other type of cancer. Currently, women represent over 60% of all subjects in NIH-funded clinical trails.

(Essential reading: Cathy Young and Sally Satel, "The Myth of Gender Bias in Medicine," Washington, D.C.: The Women's Freedom Network, 1997.)

6.Myth: Girls have been shortchanged in our gender-biased schools

Fact: No fair-minded person can review the education data and conclude that girls are the have-nots in our schools. Boys are slightly ahead of girls in math and science; girls are dramatically ahead in reading and writing. (The writing skills of 17-year-old boys are at the same level as 14-year- old girls.) Girls get better grades, they have higher aspirations, and they are more likely to go to college.

(See: Trends in Educational Equity of Girls & Women, Washington, D. C.: U.S. Department of Education, June 2000.)

7. Myth: "Our schools are training grounds for sexual harassment… boys are rarely punished, while girls are taught that it is their role to tolerate this humiliating conduct."

(National Organization of Women, "Issue Report: Sexual Harassment," April 1998.)

Fact: "Hostile Hallways," is the best-known study of harassment in grades 8-11. It was commissioned by the American Association of University Women (AAUW) in 1993, and is a favorite of many harassment experts. But this survey revealed that girls are doing almost as much harassing as the boys. According to the study, "85 percent of girls and 76 percent of boys surveyed say they have experienced unwanted and unwelcome sexual behavior that interferes with their lives."

(Four scholars at the University of Michigan did a careful follow-up study of the AAUW data and concluded: "The majority of both genders (53%) described themselves as having been both victim and perpetrator of harassment — that is most students had been harassed and had harassed others." And these researchers draw the right conclusion: "Our results led us to question the simple perpetrator-victim model…")(See: American Education Research Journal, Summer 1996.)

8. Myth: Girls suffer a dramatic loss of self-esteem during adolescence.

Fact: This myth of the incredible shrinking girls was started by Carol Gilligan, professor of gender studies at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Gilligan has always enjoyed higher standing among feminist activists and journalists than among academic research psychologists. Scholars who follow the protocols of social science do not accept the reality of an adolescent "crisis" of confidence and "loss of voice." In 1993, American Psychologist reported the new consensus among researchers in adolescent development: "It is now known that the majority of adolescents of both genders successfully negotiate this developmental period without any major psychological or emotional disorder [and] develop a positive sense of personal identity."

(Anne C. Petersen et al. "Depression in Adolescence," American Psychologist February 1993; see also, Daniel Offer, and Kimberly Schonert-Reichl, "Debunking the Myths of Adolescence: Findings from Recent Research," Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, November 1992.)

9. Myth: Gender is a social construction.

Fact: While environment and socialization do play a significant role in human life, a growing body of research in neuroscience, endocrinology, and psychology over the past 40 years suggests there is a biological basis for many sex differences in aptitudes and preferences. In general, males have better spatial reasoning skills; females better verbal skills. Males are greater risk takers; females are more nurturing.

Of course, this does not mean that women should be prevented from pursuing their goals in any field they choose; what it does suggest is that we should not expect parity in all fields. More women than men will continue to want to stay at home with small children and pursue careers in fields like early childhood education or psychology; men will continue to be over-represented in fields like helicopter mechanics and hydraulic engineering.

Warning: Most gender scholars in our universities have degrees in fields like English or comparative literature–not biology or neuroscience. These self-appointed experts on sexuality are scientifically illiterate. They substitute dogma and propaganda for reasoned scholarship.

(For a review of recent findings on sex differences see a special issue of The Scientific American "Men: The Scientific Truth," Fall 2000.)

10. Myth: Women's Studies Departments empowered women and gave them a voice in the academy.

Fact: Women's Studies empowered a small group of like-minded careerists. They have created an old-girl network that is far more elitist, narrow and closed than any of the old-boy networks they rail against. Vast numbers of moderate or dissident women scholars have been marginalized, excluded and silenced.

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Why We Need Mens Rights

by ~lordmep, Jul 31, 2012, 9:36:34 PM
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[link] I dare anyone to challenge these.

•I need men’s rights because when she changed her mind the next day, I went to jail for 5 years;
•I need men’s rights because I was the victim of abuse but nobody believed me;
•I need men’s rights because I am less likely to go to college, and if I do, I will make less money than my female contemporaries;
•I need men’s rights because the president sees the shrinking number of men in colleges across America as “a great success”;
•I need men’s rights because people question if I am a predator when I am alone with my child;
•I need men’s rights because a man’s appearance, height, and weight has a greater affect on his income than it does for a woman;
•I need men’s rights because saying “it’s impossible to discriminate against men in our society” allows people to discriminate with impunity;
•I need men’s rights because traditionally masculine characteristics are virtues not flaws;
•I need men’s rights because the likelihood of my death coming by suicide is four times higher than it is for women, though I receive little support;
•I need men’s rights because it is not considered bigoted or sexist to deny me a male safe space at my college by those who have possessed their own safe spaces for decades;
•I need men’s rights because it is assumed that a meeting of men in a male safe space is automatically going to devolve into hateful sexism and violence;
•I need men’s rights because broad gender-wide slurs against men are socially accepted;
•I need men’s rights because my life, career, reputation and connection with my family can be easily destroyed by a single, false and anonymously whispered accusation;
•I need men’s rights because when women stumble blame rests on society, but when men stumble it is their fault;
•I need men’s rights because in my physically demanding career, I am expected to do much more work for “equal” pay;
•I need men’s rights because it is fine to call me a “dick”, a “cock”, or a “prick” on the street or on television; a woman must never be called a “cunt”;
•I need men’s rights because talk-shows think it’s funny if I am wounded or sexually mutilated by a woman;
•I need men’s rights because while the rape of a woman is properly regarded as a crime, the rape of a man is funny;
•I need men’s rights because mutilation of male infants is considered normal – and those arguing for the protection of male infants from mutilation are regularly slandered as anti-semites and bigots;
•I need men’s rights because my sexuality is routinely characterized as violent pathology, rather than as a natural part of my human identity;
•I need men’s rights because women assume it’s my fault if I am assaulted by a woman;
•I need men’s rights because people think it is irresponsible to have me work around children;
•I need men’s rights because I have the right to the same sexual sovereignty given to women;
•I need men’s rights because I believe that the feminist idea that a woman in the United States is equally oppressed as a woman in Afghanistan or Saudi Arabia in cruel and insulting;
•I need men’s rights because I should not be ashamed of my sexuality;
•I need men’s rights because women who find me unattractive will shame me can call me creepy for politely interacting with them, and they will be praised for this cruelty;
•I need men’s rights because I was sexually harassed by several drunk women twice my age and everyone at the party thought it was funny;
•I need men’s rights because my size and strength is commonly used to pretend that I am violent, which I am not;
•I need men’s rights because if I am small or weak doesnt mean I have a Napoleon complex;
•I need men’s rights because the type of car I drive does not give you the right to shame me or belittle me;
•I need men’s rights because I have the right to associate with other men without legal action forcing me to allow women, too;
•I need men’s rights because if I am assaulted by my spouse, and I attempt to seek help, I risk arrest, imprisonment and life-long censure – even if I do not defend myself, even I am seriously injured while she is untouched;
•I need men’s rights because I earned my accomplishments; they were not given to me by a fictitious masculine conspiracy;
•I need men’s rights because I have a right to be a father for my own children;
•I need men’s rights because, as a man, I am much more likely to be physically assaulted than a woman;
•I need men’s rights because I will be chastised as a coward, and a failed man if I do not sacrifice my life to save a woman in a time of crisis;
•I need men’s rights because laws exist that demand harsher penalties for men for the same crime;
•I need men’s rights because I have no lobbying voice in congress;
•I need men’s rights because, as a man, I am more than 9 times more likely to be killed at work than a woman;
•I need men’s rights because I am more likely to die young, and much less money is being spent on my health problems;
•I need men’s rights because, if I am killed in an accident, people will care less than if a woman or a child is killed. News readers make this clear every time they utter the phrase “women and children”;
•I need men’s rights because society believes that my life is worth less than a woman’s;
•I need the men’s rights movement, because I am a human being.

And finally, I need the men’s rights movement, because when I attempt to address any of these issues, my co-workers, my government, my media, my peers, my family, and the larger society I am a part of rises in unanimous voice to condemn me as a monster – simply for claiming my humanity.

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Feminism is causing American men to go foreign.

by *HeartbeatsnSteths91, May 2, 2012, 7:58:58 PM
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I was listening to Tom Leykis recently, and he was talking about how more men in the US are looking for foreign women because they haven't been brainwashed by feminism. I'm not kidding. They said this on the show. I would post a link to the video, but unfortunately, it's been removed due to copyright laws.

Anyways, they talked about how American men, more specifically, American military men, are not dating American women anymore because of the effects that feminism has done. Face it, most American women are entitlement minded, money hungry, and don't really put out anymore after they get married. I know there are exceptions and NOT ALL American women are like that, but the fact is a lot of them are. Another reason that American men are going foreign is because the divorce laws in foreign lands are not as in favor of women as they are here in the USA. I don't know the specifics, but I do know that here in the US, women practically dominate the divorce courts and are usually the ones who get alimony (or vaginamony as Leykis would call it) and/or child support.

What do you guys think? Any American men here on DA going foreign because you're sick of the divorce/family courts being in favor of women? Are you sick of what modern feminism has done to so many women here?
I can tell you right now that I'm an American girl and modern feminists make me ashamed to be a woman at times.

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