[Dean's World] Trudy W. Schuett: The Fluff and Nonsense that is Feminism

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Posted by Trudy W. Schuett:
The Fluff and Nonsense that is Feminism
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    Kelly is talking about [1]feminism

   In the days when I thought it was still possible to have an open
   discussion with feminists, I used to say, "Maybe you think you don't
   hate men. So why can't you stop acting as if you do?"

   Of course, that was always the end of any communication. Today's
   feminists refuse to even entertain the idea their "philosophy" may be
   flawed.

   There are gaping holes of logic and even of comprehension, when you
   consider all the things feminists want the government and white men to
   do for them.  If you read such books as Melanie Phillips' [2]The
   Ascent of Woman: A History of the Suffragette Movement and the Ideas
   Behind it

   And[3] Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967-75

   What you find is a group of emotionally disturbed women who cannot
   even agree among themselves what they believe.

   Feminism is not now, and has never been, about equality. It has always
   been about female supremacy; taking rights away from men and allowing
   women to prevail. If it had ever been about equality, then the term,
   "feminism," would never have been invented. They would have called
   themselves egalitarians.

   They have not done that.

   Because I work in a library, I've been able to access otherwise hidden
   sections of websites, such as that of the Feminist Majority org. There
   I found some of the early works of Shulamith Firestone. I must
   apologize here, because due to the poor writing skills of this woman,
   and the things she said I had thought she was an African-American
   raised in poverty.

   Nope. She's one of those Jewish American Princesses my first husband,
   Steven Silberberg, warned me about. Whine, whine, whine. Not just a
   yenta, but worse.

   I lived in the Detroit area for the first 38 years of my life. There
   is a huge A-A population there, and of course some people of color
   were friends of ours. Duh. You live down the street from a lady whose
   kids are the same age, of course they all play together and you borrow
   the occasional cup of sugar. We were friends and didn't think about
   race. When we were changing diapers, all our babies pooped brown ;>)

   So I am particularly outraged that feminists chose to piggyback on the
   Equal Rights Movement of the `60s and still do. The Black people had
   something concrete to attain; nobody ever tried to stop a woman from
   voting after 1920 and nobody ever tried to keep a woman from buying a
   house in an area she liked. Of course there's more to all of it, but
   my point is that women have never been treated as badly as African
   Americans, and I find it shameful that these spoiled white girls have
   chosen to draw a parallel. If you read Alice Echols you find that the
   black women of the equal rights movement rejected feminists in the
   60s, and for good reason.

   Feminism has always been about bullshit. It is the cultural tragedy of
   the 21st Century.

References

   1. http://awomanagainstfeminism.blogspot.com/2007/12/anti-feminists-rape-advocates.html
   2. http://www.melaniephillips.com/books/
   3. http://www.amazon.com/Daring-Be-Bad-Feminism-American/dp/0816617872