RE: A Rejected Opinion Piece On 3rd Wave Feminism From 2013 - IDEOLOGY REWIND
Thanks for sharing such a well thought out piece of work. I agree with a lot of what you say throughout. There is never a time in human history that hasn't had some form of extremist organisation and that is what a large portion of the feminist movement has turned into and that is a very sad thing.
I never considered myself to be a feminist or not a feminist and throughout my life I have tended to be on the feminist side of the debate, probably because I am a man that was raised by only females. From this upbringing I never questioned that a man and women should stand on equal ground and I firmly believe that to be true.
Men and women should have equal opportunity in life or as close as that can get, sadly the extreme movement of feminism only harms the outcome of equality.
These extreme feminists just portray a group of women that share and preach false information, propaganda, male hatred and anything but equality. This false information shared is proven to be false and the organization behind it then becomes less credible, then because they are less credible they have to work harder to get their voice heard, so they resort to more extreme methods and more extreme propaganda that only further discredits themselves.
You can not blame the men on the planet today for the system being patriarchy as it was set up so long ago rather women and men should work along side each other to make things more even.
Finally I will say there is no such thing as true equality, no one gets the same opportunities and has the exact same experiences however we can improve a lot on what we have today!
Thank you very much for your response. I feel I am in a similar boat as you, I have in the past been on the feminist side of the debate, why wouldn't anyone be correct? True feminism preaches equality not opportunity. The opportunists of the group seek to destroy the foundation of the movement and create their own legacy in which they will be written into the history books as revolutionaries, the suffragettes of the 21st century.
I believe the key to really attaining equality in opportunity is just listening to eachother's pleas and building a compromise, rather than wait for their turn to speak over the last narrative. Men are not to blame, women are not to blame, we are all to blame. A group is only as strong as its weakest constituents.
Well said, I'm sure someone before has said something along the lines of, History is to be learnt from not lived by. We are always taught that to be happy you need to be excepting of what happened in the past understand why it happened, and from that create a better future.
Rather than people focusing on attacking who they think created the problem, we should all come together to discuss what can actually be done to solve the problem. It is to easy to just play the blame game and say I am in this position because of X, Y and Z rather than taking action to make a positive change.
Not to ramble on for too much longer, there are many articles out there that discuss the fact that in many cases people use the banner of feminism or any well meaning groups to push their own agenda and rise to power, which seems to be the case with many extreme left and right wing movements currently.