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http://www.nationalreview.com/article/37...williamson

National Review Wrote:“Feminism is the words ‘I Want!’ in the mouths of three or more women, provided they’re the right kind of women.” Feminism must therefore accommodate wildly incompatible propositions — e.g., (1) Women unquestionably belong alongside men in Marine units fighting pitched battles in Tora Bora but (2) really should not be expected to be able to perform three chin-ups. Or: (1) Women at Columbia are empowered by pornography but (2) women at Wellesley are victimized by a statue of a man sleepwalking in his Shenanigans. And then there is Fluke’s Law: (1) Women are responsible moral agents with full sexual and economic autonomy who (2) must be given an allowance, like children, when it comes to contraceptives.

National Review Wrote:Being a feminist icon is a pretty good racket. Financial disclosures recently showed that Miss Davis, ex-tornado-bait trailer-park-refugee single-mom crusader for the common folk, has used some $131,000 in campaign funds to house herself in luxury apartments in Austin boasting “five-star resort amenities.” Among her most enthusiastic boosters is Cecile Richards, daughter of the late Texas governor, who is paid nearly a half-million dollars a year for her work defending the surgical dismemberment of unborn children in the furtherance of sexual convenience. Miss Fluke is very likely to find California politics an amenable environment and is no doubt headed for a lifetime of comfortable sinecures.

So the money’s good, but feminism throws up pretty poor leaders. The constant posture of wounded outrage — outrage that can only be salved with a ritual offering to the great “I Want!” — makes one poorly suited for the actual business of responsible governance, which is by necessity an exercise in prudent negotiation and compromise.

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Son was dropping bombs all over that piece. Holy smokes.

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They are not feminists, they are haters. Real feminists would be promoting femininity, not masculinization of women.

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Quote:For what is she known? For standing in front of a group of legislators saying “I Want!”

Gold!

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Seems like the rebellion is gaining ground.

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I've said it before and I'll say it again: Feminism is about giving women the same rights, freedoms and perks as men, but with NONE of the same accountability or responsibility that goes along with it.

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The author dismantled them pretty well. I wonder if they'll go after his job like they did with pax dickinson...

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collection of appetites wriggling queasily together like a bag of snakes.

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There are some gems in the comments as well:

Fed Up Wrote:• 2 hours ago

Kevin, your entire piece can be summed up thusly: the modern feminist creed holds "I am Woman, hear me Roar" when that suits them and "I am Victim, hear me mewl" when that does.

Nice to know that some things are timeless, even the very-modern women of the west.

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(02-06-2014 02:46 PM)aphelion Wrote:  Son was dropping bombs all over that piece. Holy smokes.

He went in dry through the back door.

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That article was like

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I don't know. He started strong, but then lost me by going after Davis and the whole abortion angle. Ends up reading more like Republican propaganda than an actual intellectual argument against feminism.

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(02-06-2014 11:06 PM)j r Wrote:  I don't know. He started strong, but then lost me by going after Davis and the whole abortion angle. Ends up reading more like Republican propaganda than an actual intellectual argument against feminism.

He included Davis because she's a total grifter huckster and that lack of authenticity and being genuine is emblematic of the whole feminist movement. She's some feminist do it yourself up from your bootstraps icon, but the reality is she married a sugar daddy and then got him to open up the checkbook for her school and plastic surgery.

Look at feminism in its modern incarnation. It may have started out as making women whole and erasing their status as second-class citizens (suffrage, educational/professional opportunities, autonomy over their own bodies), but what has it become? They won the battles and the wars that they needed to win, so all that's left is upper-middle class white princesses enforcing political correctness. It's bitching and moaning about how you're being oppressed by men expressing their opinion that they don't want to see Lena Dunham naked. It's claiming with a straight face that Jerry Seinfeld is racist and sexist for not having enough female comedians of color on his new tv show...that's when you're not otherwise claiming that stand-up comedians have a social responsibility to not tell jokes that offend your precious fweewings. Daniel Tosh is an avid contributor to rape culture. That's what feminism wants to tell us in the year 2014 and still expect to be taken seriously. They lecture white men on privilege when if anything they have more of it. That they have the luxury to spend their time on such silly superficial shit and never have anything to say about the plight of Muslim women in Stone Age societies, or sex trafficking in Eastern Europe, tells you all you need to know about how morally and intellectually bankrupt feminism has become.

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(02-07-2014 12:06 AM)DetlefMourning Wrote:  

(02-06-2014 11:06 PM)j r Wrote:  I don't know. He started strong, but then lost me by going after Davis and the whole abortion angle. Ends up reading more like Republican propaganda than an actual intellectual argument against feminism.

He included Davis because she's a total grifter huckster and that lack of authenticity and being genuine is emblematic of the whole feminist movement. She's some feminist do it yourself up from your bootstraps icon, but the reality is she married a sugar daddy and then got him to open up the checkbook for her school and plastic surgery.

Look at feminism in its modern incarnation. It may have started out as making women whole and erasing their status as second-class citizens (suffrage, educational/professional opportunities, autonomy over their own bodies), but what has it become? They won the battles and the wars that they needed to win, so all that's left is upper-middle class white princesses enforcing political correctness. It's bitching and moaning about how you're being oppressed by men expressing their opinion that they don't want to see Lena Dunham naked. It's claiming with a straight face that Jerry Seinfeld is racist and sexist for not having enough female comedians of color on his new tv show...that's when you're not otherwise claiming that stand-up comedians have a social responsibility to not tell jokes that offend your precious fweewings. Daniel Tosh is an avid contributor to rape culture. That's what feminism wants to tell us in the year 2014 and still expect to be taken seriously. They lecture white men on privilege when if anything they have more of it. That they have the luxury to spend their time on such silly superficial shit and never have anything to say about the plight of Muslim women in Stone Age societies, or sex trafficking in Eastern Europe, tells you all you need to know about how morally and intellectually bankrupt feminism has become.

I very much agree, but I think it's even simpler than that.

I think the main purpose of feminism is nefarious, it is to alter natural selection. It is to shame society into thinking that all women must be considered in mate selection or else the man is to be shamed. This has the benefit of absolving all women of any personal responsibility in terms of appearance and behavior.

This attitude naturally follows from a society that heaps praise on girls but ignores boys. NYC had a recent initiative to improve the 'self esteem' of girls. It had some stupid tagline like 'I'm beautiful just the way I am'. This is of course one of the dumbest and most contradictory things ever. They want to teach girls that beauty isn't everything, yet they are all beautiful. What happens to the fatty years later who is constantly told she is beautiful yet guys won't touch her with a ten foot poll? Well, she'll still have feminists on her side who tell her that beauty comes in all shape and sizes, but quality men will run for the hills. She'll be able to take comfort from her friends who tell her that all men are pigs, but the reality is one can't change biology.

Point being, I think feminism was started under the guise of equality. But it was really about a bunch of bitter hags who didn't get asked out by the guys they liked. Instead of acceptance or better yet, self improvement, they decided to brainwash and shame society and largely succeeded, at least for a while. I think the tide is turning.

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(02-06-2014 11:06 PM)j r Wrote:  I don't know. He started strong, but then lost me by going after Davis and the whole abortion angle. Ends up reading more like Republican propaganda than an actual intellectual argument against feminism.

I have plenty against Republicans, but this article is not one of them. It is quite democratic concerning abortion and abortion rights, it just piles on her parasitism upon "women's welfare" while living a completely opposite thing of what she preaches.