Feminist wisdom claims that women are pressured into marriage by the patriarchy against their wills, and marriage is something women really don’t desire. No really. Anja Eriud points out a few ironies embedded in this narrative.
Feminism appeals to the selfish little girl in women, with demands that she should ‘have it all’. And that anytime she doesn’t, it’s men’s fault. And it’s that scapegoating, the ‘othering’ of men that marks feminism as truly evil.
If an article by Chilla Bulbeck entitled “Explainer: Feminism” is anything to go by, a publication called “The Conversation” doesn’t have much coherent to talk about.
On publication of his paper Sokal exposed his hoax in the journal Lingua Franca. The editors of Social Text immediately cried foul and added a misplaced criticism of Sokal’s writing style. They missed the point, entirely. Sokal’s intent was to write badly (and think badly) yet have his poor scholarship overlooked due to its superficial accordance with leftist ideology.
AVfM welcomes 17 year old Josh O’Brien, who has already figured out that the “Patriarchy” myth of privileging men over women is, well, a myth. When youngsters are already figuring it out for themselves, we have hope that this hateful notion will die within our lifetimes.
It’s easy, and pretty common, to charge MRA’s with being conspiracy nuts. But that is in a topsy-turvey world where feminists see patriarchal machinations and oppression around every corner.
A very recent study has been released that feminists are treating as the smoking gun; proof of not only systemic misogyny, but that the medical system doesn’t care about women’s needs. This study is the proof they need to show that everything else they say is correct, because if one thing is proven true, then …
