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Is it sexist to criticize feminism?
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RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism?
(February 1, 2014 at 12:53 pm)Esquilax Wrote:
(February 1, 2014 at 12:30 pm)TaraJo Wrote: And, for the record, it's happened.

http://verdict.justia.com/2014/01/27/cra...ld-support

That's ridiculous; isn't the underlying premise of sperm donation that the donor waives all parental rights to the surrogate? This kind of double dipping bullshit is a really potent argument for getting everything very stiffly defined in writing before you start dumping your baby batter in someone you don't have any intention of parenting with.

I agree. However, the states can be a little crazy about grabbing up child support money. From what I've heard, they get money from the feds based on how much money they collect in child support, and since they want every penny they can get from the feds, they're going to take every penny they can conceivably get in child support.

I also suppose it's only fair to mention, I have NEVER heard feminism say anything about this issue. I'm not going to say feminism is automatically hostile to men, but it's going to be difficult to convince me that it really stands for equality while issues that predominantly effect men are ignored.

(February 1, 2014 at 1:00 pm)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: I have never under stood the reasons why many feminists are against transgender individuals. If anything I thought that feminists would support lbgt people even more seeing as how these people are still actively oppressed in some communities, especially transgender individuals.

It started with Janice Raymond and her book The Transsexual Empire. She argues that our gender is entirely a social construct, created entirely by social conditioning from childhood. Since trans women, like myself, were raised to be male, our gender is still male. Furtherore, she claims we transiton so we can further possess women: so we can possess their bodies.

Since then, a lot of angry feminists have taken her word as truth in spite of the fact that scientific data strongly disagrees with them. Me, I think it's telling that so many transsexuals think her treatment of transwomen is wrong, but have no problem with the same hostility thrown at men.
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Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by Lemonvariable72 - January 31, 2014 at 8:42 pm
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by KichigaiNeko - January 31, 2014 at 8:53 pm
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by ElleBelle - January 31, 2014 at 9:05 pm
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by kılıç_mehmet - January 31, 2014 at 9:10 pm
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by TAW - February 1, 2014 at 12:05 am
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by KichigaiNeko - January 31, 2014 at 9:15 pm
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by kılıç_mehmet - January 31, 2014 at 9:16 pm
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by kılıç_mehmet - January 31, 2014 at 9:21 pm
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by KichigaiNeko - January 31, 2014 at 9:22 pm
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by kılıç_mehmet - January 31, 2014 at 9:22 pm
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by Lemonvariable72 - January 31, 2014 at 9:33 pm
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by kılıç_mehmet - January 31, 2014 at 9:40 pm
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by kılıç_mehmet - January 31, 2014 at 9:50 pm
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by kılıç_mehmet - January 31, 2014 at 10:01 pm
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by kılıç_mehmet - January 31, 2014 at 10:17 pm
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by kılıç_mehmet - January 31, 2014 at 10:30 pm
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by Shell B - February 2, 2014 at 4:55 pm
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by Lemonvariable72 - February 2, 2014 at 5:25 pm
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by Lemonvariable72 - February 2, 2014 at 7:47 pm
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by Lemonvariable72 - January 31, 2014 at 10:10 pm
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by TaraJo - January 31, 2014 at 10:28 pm
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by TaraJo - January 31, 2014 at 10:42 pm
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by TaraJo - January 31, 2014 at 10:59 pm
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by BrokenQuill92 - January 31, 2014 at 11:34 pm
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by kılıç_mehmet - February 1, 2014 at 12:16 am
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by Lemonvariable72 - February 1, 2014 at 12:57 am
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by TaraJo - February 1, 2014 at 1:09 am
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by TaraJo - January 31, 2014 at 9:46 pm
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by Tiberius - February 2, 2014 at 5:32 pm
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by Angrboda - January 31, 2014 at 10:09 pm
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by kılıç_mehmet - January 31, 2014 at 10:39 pm
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by TaraJo - January 31, 2014 at 10:46 pm
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by kılıç_mehmet - January 31, 2014 at 10:44 pm
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by kılıç_mehmet - January 31, 2014 at 10:48 pm
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by kılıç_mehmet - January 31, 2014 at 10:54 pm
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by Rev. Rye - February 1, 2014 at 12:03 am
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by kılıç_mehmet - February 1, 2014 at 12:25 am
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by TAW - February 1, 2014 at 12:35 am
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by Angrboda - February 1, 2014 at 1:10 am
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by kılıç_mehmet - February 1, 2014 at 1:17 am
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by Assimilate - February 1, 2014 at 1:35 am
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by Assimilate - February 1, 2014 at 1:53 am
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by TAW - February 1, 2014 at 1:54 am
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by TAW - February 1, 2014 at 2:04 am
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by kılıç_mehmet - February 1, 2014 at 12:53 am
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by TAW - February 1, 2014 at 1:25 am
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by kılıç_mehmet - February 1, 2014 at 2:47 am
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by Darth - February 1, 2014 at 9:52 am
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by Whateverist - February 1, 2014 at 9:58 am
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by là bạn điên - February 1, 2014 at 11:32 am
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by TaraJo - February 1, 2014 at 12:30 pm
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by Esquilax - February 1, 2014 at 12:53 pm
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by FlyingNarwhal - February 2, 2014 at 2:14 pm
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by FlyingNarwhal - February 2, 2014 at 3:22 pm
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by Lemonvariable72 - February 1, 2014 at 1:00 pm
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by Whateverist - February 1, 2014 at 3:22 pm
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by TaraJo - February 1, 2014 at 4:57 pm
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by Lemonvariable72 - February 1, 2014 at 5:05 pm
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by Whateverist - February 2, 2014 at 4:38 pm
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by Shell B - February 2, 2014 at 6:27 pm
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by Shell B - February 2, 2014 at 6:49 pm
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by Shell B - February 2, 2014 at 7:29 pm
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by Anomalocaris - February 2, 2014 at 8:52 pm
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by Shell B - February 2, 2014 at 11:10 pm
RE: Is it sexist to criticize feminism? - by TaraJo - February 3, 2014 at 12:11 am

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