Hello everyone and welcome to my profiling feminist series. Now this
series used to be called my feminist archetype series but I changed the name
because profiling feminists has such a good ring to it you know it's like
they're criminals or something. Now in the past I have identified seven
different types of feminists much like these seven deadly sins and I have
previously profiled a few of them but what I want to do today is talk about
what I actually mean when I say feminist. The criticism that I get semi-regularly
when I make fun or critique feminists is "but not all feminists are
like that." Okay first of all if you're making that kind of whiny comment then
you most likely are the kind of feminists that I'm talking about but
second of all no you're right actually not all feminists are like that there
are a number of distinct stages or waves of feminism to consider and in fact not
all of it is bad. In fact much of it is very good despite some of its more
militant proponents. Were it not for early and mid feminism I wouldn't have
all the rights and protections that I have as a woman today I would not be
equal to men and I am very very thankful for the fact that I am. It's only the
later stages of feminism that I and other right wing commentators and indeed
some old-school feminists take issue with. So let me give you a quick
historical overview of feminism and how it has all led to the crapshow that it
is today. First wave feminism began around the
start of the 20th century and consisted of the suffragettes. These women were
lobbying to get women the vote and while some of their methods were a little
questionable they succeeded and country-by-country women gained the
right to have a say in who was making policies that affected them. Second wave
feminism was about equality of opportunity so equal access to the
workplace, equal access to education, granting women the ability to apply for
credit cards and home loans without their husbands permission, access to
contraception and legislation to protect women from wage inequality. That's why I
get so annoyed when feminists nowadays complain about the gender pay gap.
So while second wave feminism did have its radical elements that were somewhat
unwholesome.
The end result was equality of opportunity for women which was
objectively a good thing. But third wave feminism is where things started to get
just a little bit hairy. This wave of feminism was primarily
concerned with semantics and attitudes beginning in the 1990s this is when
words like "intersectionality" entered the fray which was originally a good way to
explain the complex dynamics of race and gender in society at the time however
this was hijacked by the miserable and used as a way to inform women of just
how many ways they were allegedly oppressed by men. Other identities were
added into the mix over time such as sexuality, the gender spectrum, age, weight
and religion all of which combine to form a sort of "Oppression Olympics" where
contestants compete for victim points. Nevertheless and despite its flaws this
wave of feminism did raise awareness of attitudes - and the treatment of women.
Like insisting for instance that a casual slap on the butt actually isn't
funny it's really quite gross and might affect
a woman's productivity in the workplace for instance especially if the treatment
is prolonged. Or that women should not be blamed or accused of asking for it if
they are sexually assaulted. So in other words the concept of sexual harassment
was coined which before it has been taken to the extremes it's taken - today
was undoubtedly a good development in the evolution of society as a whole.
However in the early 2000 it seemed that these feminist thought leaders began to
run out of things to complain about. After all they'd won a lot of
hard-fought victories in the preceding decades which anyone would think was a
good thing but rather than smile pat themselves on the back and enjoy their
achievements the most opportunistic among them started concocting talking
points presumably for fear of losing their sense of identity and purpose and
any income stream that may have gone along with that. Followed by the most
militant, insecure, emotional and low IQ among them
third wave feminists started creating things that were theoretically
problematic but had no practical purpose.
Terms like manspreading and mansplaining started popping up along with slutwalks
because apparently the best way to protest the objectification of women is
to objectify yourself but you know whatever. The advent of social media fans
these flames of frustration bigly and allowed third wave feminists to
congregate in online echo chambers. There they cooked up even more meaningless
terminology like microaggressions to create problems that don't exist and
called anyone who disagreed with them, which is most people by the way,
uneducated, unenlighted and misogynistic. This militant online victim feminism
movement bubbled away getting bigger and bigger
especially as universities churned out more and more of them and thus 4th wave
feminism was born who are the hand flapping, hysterical, hyperintersectionalised
self-loathing, self-contradictory, inconsistent, gender bending and above
all regressive little miscreants you see today. and oh how I hate them. I hate them.
The fourth wave feminist is a curious creature her comrades are a strange
substratum of millennial and Generation X women with a peculiar inferiority
complex. They are obsessed with picking at the scab of women's lib trying to
draw a fresh blood and can often be seen prowling or lumbering around attempting
to sniff out sexism in every nook and cranny. Theirs is an ideology not of
equality but of misplaced victim-hood in short forth wavers are miserable and
seek to make other women as perpetually unhappy as they are. Fourth wave
feminists are a contradiction in terms they insist that women should enter the
workforce yet won't shut up about how horrible the workforce is because of the
presence of men, they say it's a woman's choice to have children yet they
ruthlessly condescend stay at home mums, insisting they are capitulating to
traditional gender roles, they plead with women to come out about sexual assault
yet simultaneously discouraged them by lamenting the
that they won't be believed, they are very keen on the idea that physical
appearance is not important and are often advocates of the fat positivity
movement and yet regardless of their insistence that fact is not an insult
they become grossly offended if you dare make a comment about their weight.
- Before you slip into your swimsuit you could start a grueling workout routine
and manipulate your natural shape and skin tone to reach for an unattainable
and oppressive idea of perfection or you could follow a few quick and easy tips
for self accepting journey to the beach. - It is evident then that the fourth way
the revels in convenient double standards. However the worst of these is
ironically a strange form of misogyny and is starkly revealed in their
treatment of right-wing women. In other words while fourth wave feminists claim
that they desperately want more female voices in the mainstream they really
only want them there if they agree with them.
As a woman on the right I have
observed with amusement the rampant tanty throwing that happens when a feminist
is confronted by a conservative compatriot. If you have the audacity to
stray from the feminist tribe the sisterhood will hurl insults at you the
likes of which they would condemn as the worst kind of sexism
if uttered by a man to one of their own. They will mock the way you look, dress
and talk, they will mock your interests, your upbringing and the company you keep
and will try to discredit you with rumors, gossip and fabrication. They will
slut-shame you in a way they would vehemently condemned if they or their
feminist friends were on the receiving end. The fourth wave feminists will even
find a way to attack your age, especially if she is older than you. Consider for
instance the scorn with which women who voted for Donald Trump are treated
rather than acknowledged the severe flaws in their ideology that drove
millions of women away from Hillary Clinton, fourth wave feminists simply
deflected responsibility and insisted that women who voted for Trump did so
because they were racist and because their husbands told them to. - We do not do
well with white men and we don't do well with
married white women and part of that is an identification with the Republican
Party and a sort of ongoing pressure to vote the way the that your husband, your
boss, your son, whoever believes you should. - As such to the fourth wave
feminist conservative women are deficient their opinions are nothing
more than a byproduct of their submission to the must-be misogynistic
men in their lives. A woman can only be conservative if she is an opportunist,
unduly influenced or has something morally wrong with her. This loophole and
the feminist dogma is at best hypocritical and at worst malicious.
These feminists attempt to justify this bad behavior by blathering feminists
"don't have to support all women just because we're feminists." Well no of
course not however a key feminists talking point is this push to give all
women a voice and to allow all women to express their opinions freely without
fear of misogynistic abuse online or otherwise and there are no official
qualifiers in feminist dogma as to what these opinions may or may not be. As such
you would think that the instinctive reaction of a feminist to a conservative
woman would be to respectfully disagree and encourage civil debate but instead
their reaction is this.
The petty attempts of miserable fourth wave feminists to intimidate right-wing
women into silence are simply evidence of their terror at being exposed for the
frauds they are. In the face of the fact the conservative woman will win the
debate every time and aside from anything else any woman who has the
means to view the world solely through the prism of gender rather than
maintaining a job or paying the bills needs to take off the pussy hat, put on a
bra and check her proverbial privilege ordinary women are sick to the back
teeth of being told how terrible they should think their lives are by a hand
flapping mob of middle class attention mongers perhaps if fourth wavers realize
this they could resurrect what was once a necessary noble ideology
however given their extraordinary capacity to askew self-reflection I'd
say this is the longest of shots. If you liked that video please remember to like
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