RE: Thunderf00t vs. Feminism
September 24, 2014 at 1:27 pm
(This post was last modified: September 24, 2014 at 1:35 pm by MJ the Skeptical.)
(September 23, 2014 at 10:28 pm)Esquilax Wrote: Yeah, I unsubscribed from thunderfoot specifically because his obsession with trying to spin feminism into some kind of agenda began to overshadow the reasons I subscribed to him in the first place. It just got sort of ridiculous, watching a grown man trying to pretend that the bad elements of a specific group were the only elements of that group.
Well, his channel motto is "seeing through delusion" and he considers feminism deluded so it's a target of his; like religion and pseudoscience. I mean, if you look at the feminist rhetoric, it is very obscene, just some of the misandrist things they'll say and present, like the #KillAllMen for example. They also regularly try to conflate gender equality with feminism and will label you a feminist if you're for gender equality even if you don't want the label, and even though there is a better more inclusive term for gender equality, egalitarian. But if you use that label, you immediately get crucified? why is that? because they're dogmatic about their Neo-feminist movement like religious people.
I would agree with you that we should not bucket people in with each other, but it's kind of like taking the Christian label, there's a whole bunch of baggage attached to it, and it implies something about one's worldview. I think it shows Misandry, we don't need to be gender inclusive int the 21st century other than in countries that actually oppress women. I mean, the ones representing feminism out there have some disgusting thoughts, I don't tend to run into mild feminism. And the thing that he doesn't really talk about that sickens me most about feminists is that they're more interested with first world problems than helping women who are actually oppressed by real patriarchal systems in other countries, just about themselves and Murica.
What feminism is in the west now in days is more akin to Neo-feminism than first wave feminism that broke barriers, when it's now women who seem to have more rights in the western world.
If the hypothetical idea of an afterlife means more to you than the objectively true reality we all share, then you deserve no respect.