I wasn't really specific before, but I think I can summarize some of my problems with feminism as usually presented, and even here in this thread many times:
It's WAY too simplistic. Many feminist arguments are pretty nonsensical, question-begging and arrogant (in some sense). For example, most here would probably say that women were oppressed by men throughout history... and that's it. I mean seriously, the way that is defended (if at all) really comes down to 'Men were favored... because penis', and will say things like "Women couldn't vote, own land and such... oppression!" Well, okay. Women didn't have to fight in wars, couldn't be drafted and weren't legally responsible for their own well-being in the way men were, and men were even responsible for the well-being of women, even legally.
For example, even after women gained the right to vote (good in my booksl I hope I needn't have to say) and were getting jobs outside the home, men were, for example, responsible for paying taxes on their income. So if a women chose not to pay said taxes, then their husband would be legally penalized for tax evasion.
But, I think I'm rambling a bit. Really, I can condense my problem with feminism, as such, as wanting women to have the rights granted to them without the duties that come along with those (draft eligible, responsible for own well-being, legally responsible, etc.) This is really kicking Afganistan in the nuts right now. The women's rights issues there are largely an example of where female priviledge sadly backfired against women, the same in China (maybe to a lesser extent nowadays).
And I don't mean that women or feminists necessarily intend to argue like that, but unfortunately they do so rather often.
*Waits to be called a misogynistic pig*
It's WAY too simplistic. Many feminist arguments are pretty nonsensical, question-begging and arrogant (in some sense). For example, most here would probably say that women were oppressed by men throughout history... and that's it. I mean seriously, the way that is defended (if at all) really comes down to 'Men were favored... because penis', and will say things like "Women couldn't vote, own land and such... oppression!" Well, okay. Women didn't have to fight in wars, couldn't be drafted and weren't legally responsible for their own well-being in the way men were, and men were even responsible for the well-being of women, even legally.
For example, even after women gained the right to vote (good in my booksl I hope I needn't have to say) and were getting jobs outside the home, men were, for example, responsible for paying taxes on their income. So if a women chose not to pay said taxes, then their husband would be legally penalized for tax evasion.
But, I think I'm rambling a bit. Really, I can condense my problem with feminism, as such, as wanting women to have the rights granted to them without the duties that come along with those (draft eligible, responsible for own well-being, legally responsible, etc.) This is really kicking Afganistan in the nuts right now. The women's rights issues there are largely an example of where female priviledge sadly backfired against women, the same in China (maybe to a lesser extent nowadays).
And I don't mean that women or feminists necessarily intend to argue like that, but unfortunately they do so rather often.
*Waits to be called a misogynistic pig*
"The reason things will never get better is because people keep electing these rich cocksuckers who don't give a shit about you."
-George Carlin
-George Carlin
