(November 18, 2015 at 4:23 pm)Evie Wrote:(November 18, 2015 at 4:18 pm)Dystopia Wrote: This actually reminded me of something - How would people react if there was a woman anti-feminist speaking against feminism because she believed it was evil?
TBH I don't think her being female would be relevant. It would just be another case of someone misunderstanding what feminism actually is.
To draw an analogy:
A self-hating closet homosexual who is also highly homophobic is no more or less homophobic than a heterosexual homophobe. Homophobia is despicable regardless of whether the person who is homophobic is homosexual themselves or not. Just as a self-hating woman who also hates all other women and is misogynistic is just as despicable as a man who hates women and is misogynistic, in and of itself. In both cases it's still misogyny.
I agree with you, Evie, but when a member of a group speaks out against his/her own group it seems to have extra credibility - For example, a black person criticizing BLM is seen as more credibly than a white, etc. My GF is technically mixed race, as her grandad was gipsy, evne though no one actually notices it, and she is really racist against gipsies (it's more cultural hatred than racial dislike really), if I said something bad about gipsies, I would be racist, but if my GF says it, it's ok because she is technically one of them herself.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you
