lets collectively lol @ these "I need feminism because..." pics

[BloatedGuppy]

It is sad, but they were louder, more proactive and they captured the imagination of the public, so the moderates have effectively been sidelined in the public view these days.

Well...they "captured the imagination" of a certain segment of the public, yes. One could argue it was a segment of the public just ACHING to have their confirmation biases supported when it came to the terrifying specter of feminism. I've never found the radicals to be terribly convincing, nor have I found that their antics tarnished the definition of a word.

Quoted above: somebody who I don't think quite got it, but spent a great deal of time and energy into not getting it. Comedy or tragedy? Depends on your perspective I suppose.

Sheppy, stop flame baiting. Seriously. If you don't want to discuss something with someone, find a better way to express it. What you're doing here is one gradient away from "I know you are but what am I?"

 

[Smeatza]

Well for starters you are saying that feminism has a "very specific set of beliefs" so you're falling at the first hurdle.

If I believe in a totally free market (and therefore paying women less because it's more profitable) am I still feminist?
Feminism may seem broad and unspecific to you (as you're a feminist) but in the grand scheme of things, it isn't

But at its most basic, feminism is the belief that all genders should have equal treatment. Since you stated that you agree with that you are, by default, feminist. Even if you choose not to use the label.

Wikipedia defines feminism as - Feminism is a collection of movements and ideologies aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights for women.
The dictionary defines feminism as:
1. the doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men.
2. ( sometimes initial capital letter ) an organized movement for the attainment of such rights for women.
3. feminine character. (obviously irrelevant here)

The emphasis is clearly on females. No they are not man-hating bigots (not all of them) but they are in general just as apathetic to race and men's (mainly men's) issues as any average person. I've found this to be the case in definition and in practice (although admittedly I've only had a few in depth conversations with feminists).

Why should I believe your definition over that of wikipedia and the dictionary? And what reason do I have to believe that your version of feminism is the mainstream one?

Really what you're saying when you say, "I'm not a feminist" is that you're not a radical feminist/second wave feminist/a feminist according to Glenn Beck's understanding of feminism.

If somebody is opposed to immigration are they automatically a conservative/republican? If somebody supports free healthcare are they automatically a liberal?
Feminists have adopted certain policies as a standard but that does not make them feminist policies. And therefore agreeing with these policies does not necessarily make one a feminist.

I never understand people who say, "I'm not a feminist, I'm an egalitarian!" as though the two are mutually exclusive.

I don't think it's a case of them being mutually exclusive but one not being enough.
What they should be saying is "I'm not just a feminist - I'm an egalitarian"

Oh, and the statement "feminism means believing women are/should be superior!" is a lie. Not much else to say about it, really. It's a lie.

Mostly, except for the very extreme cases.

 

[itsthesheppy]

It is sad, but they were louder, more proactive and they captured the imagination of the public, so the moderates have effectively been sidelined in the public view these days.

Well...they "captured the imagination" of a certain segment of the public, yes. One could argue it was a segment of the public just ACHING to have their confirmation biases supported when it came to the terrifying specter of feminism. I've never found the radicals to be terribly convincing, nor have I found that their antics tarnished the definition of a word.

Quoted above: somebody who I don't think quite got it, but spent a great deal of time and energy into not getting it. Comedy or tragedy? Depends on your perspective I suppose.

Sheppy, stop flame baiting. Seriously. If you don't want to discuss something with someone, find a better way to express it. What you're doing here is one gradient away from "I know you are but what am I?"

Expressing my disgust with these conversations, conducted as they are in the privileged echo chamber of white male gamers, is flame baiting? Fair enough. I'll leave you to it. It's been going 15 pages at this point, I'm sure you guys are very close to solving it once and for all. Because we all know, if you want to solve an issue like sexism and marginalization, you want to talk to the primary benefactors of it. They'll know what's best.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

Expressing my disgust with these conversations, conducted as they are in the privileged echo chamber of white male gamers, is flame baiting? Fair enough. I'll leave you to it. It's been going 15 pages at this point, I'm sure you guys are very close to solving it once and for all. Because we all know, if you want to solve an issue like sexism and marginalization, you want to talk to the primary benefactors of it. They'll know what's best.

Oh for fucks sake, you are just throwing wild punches now. Stop tilting at windmills. Saying "Lol u don't get it" is flame baiting, yes. If you want to debate someone, debate them. If you consider them beneath your contempt, ignore them. What you're doing now is just going to end with a bunch of infractions.

 

[the clockmaker]

Quoted above: somebody who I don't think quite got it, but spent a great deal of time and energy into not getting it. Comedy or tragedy? Depends on your perspective I suppose.

You really cannot help but fall back on exclusionary thoughts can you? First off, people like me should not be involved because we are A-White and B-Have a penis (notably you brought up the topic of ethnicity out of nowhere). Then you attempt to shoo me off by claiming that 'I just don't get it'.

You cannot articulate what it is I don't get, nor how I have not gotten 'it' but apparently I do not fall into the ranks of the magically informed like you do. Come on sweetheart, its okay, you can tell me, I won't tell the nasty 'other', that your belligerent tactics require in order to not seem dickish.

If you can rebut or otherwise negate anything I said, do so, if not, well you will have shown that the understanding that you hold, your treasured attribute that allows you to 'get it' without being able show what it is, well you will have shown that it is nothing more than a flimsy arrogant façade.

Quoted above, somebody who is dedicated to not getting it. Truly stalwart.

I need Feminism because of this thread.

Here's a guy who gets it. I think.

You really have nothing of value to say do you? But go on, keep muttering that you understand and I don't, keep telling yourself that this imaginary 'it' exists and that only you understand 'it'.

If you have something to say, say it, if not stop sitting back acting like you are the lone wise individual in a sea of idiots, because from what I have seen, the most exclusionist, discriminatory and arrogant person in this thread is you.

 

[the clockmaker]

Well...they "captured the imagination" of a certain segment of the public, yes. One could argue it was a segment of the public just ACHING to have their confirmation biases supported when it came to the terrifying specter of feminism. I've never found the radicals to be terribly convincing, nor have I found that their antics tarnished the definition of a word.

I most likely have simply had an overly bad trend of experiences with radical feminists. As I said, I will not harp against those who choose to self identify as such, I am just happy sticking under the banner of egalitarianism. I would say a fair amount of people who are 'anti-feminist' feel broadly along the same lines.

 

[Ernil Menegil]

Here is another reason why I need feminism, who else would be courageous enough to demand eugenics and the eradication of the male gender for the betterment of the human race? Nobody, that's who.

Spoiler

It's password-protected now unfortunately, so they can discuss the solution to the male problem without any involvement or interjection by the patriarchy: http://cherryblossomlife.com/2013/02/01/are-men-aware-of-their-condition/

Crikey the lunacy is strong in this one.

Do they even realize that men and women are both part of one species, and that the demise of the male is very much the demise of the species as a whole? Including them? Have they discovered the immortal gene or something?

Wrapping my head around this. Cannot compute. BSOD. Hard disk corrupted. MACHINE BLOWN UP.

 

[Ernil Menegil]

Hahahahahahaha, no. I'm sorry, but this one is objectively a big old no. If i have an engineering degree i'm taught how to become an engineer... If you have a womens study degree you are equipped to become a.... woman? A study? a what? I mean women studies is right up there with philosophy as a major... Heck once you've finished a degree in either you only need to learn six more words to be employable: Would you like fries with that.

Every time I post in threads like these I get a sickening lurch in my stomach, and I know I'm going to regret this, but I just couldn?t pass without saying this is one the snobbiest and most vitriolic things I?ve read in a while without being cartoonish.

I hate the picture as well because it?s obviously fake but you are fucking, loathsome.

No it really isn't. The fact is that women studies much like philosophy is an intellectual dead end as far as gainful employment goes. if you get a doctorate in Women Studies, the only area your field of expertise is going to lead to is becoming a lecturer in womens studies... An neither course load is worthy af academic respect, since neither philosophy nor womens study are fact based systems: Both are just absorbing the opinions of other equally unskeptical people, without critical analysis.

Frankly womens study should not be a recognised course load in legitimate tertiary institutes of education, fior exactly the same reason Intelligent Design shouldn't be.

Sad to say matthew here is very right. From a strictly employment basis, they are absolutely worthless. Of course philosophy isn't worthless, but you won't score a job on philosophy alone, because its core principle is basically idle thinking. And idle thinking is just a big no no in a modern society that sanctifies labour.

 

[Schadrach]

Feminism, the radical belief that women are people too.

I don't think anyone treats the idea that women are people as in any way radical. The things that seem to be radical ideas these days are derivative of that though, such as "the belief that women, being people, are every bit as responsible for their actions as men" or "the belief that women, being people, are every bit as capable of being terrible people as men."

Those poor middle class, white males. Must be so hard. I mean, after all, you probably held a door for a woman. Poor boys, so oppressed.

I like the "middle class" caveat. I'm sure the "middle class", white females have thoroughly been oppressed by the system that bends over backwards to give them all of the rights men have and some extra men don't. (I'll ask you, since other people can't provide an answer; what right do men have that women do not?)

Assuming we mean in western nations, I can answer that one -- the right to serve in specific military roles in certain countries. That's about all I've got though. If we don't limit ourselves to western nations, then there's quite a bit more of a list.

-equal pay for equal work

That's a matter of great debate. I'm curious what your thoughts on the following are... <youtube=ziWzgs40euc>

Actually, that kind of thing usually trips off the "equal pay for equal work" argument -- for the most part it's already here. There's a tendency to quote a "70-odd cents on the dollar" number without understanding what that number measures -- median annual income for males compared to median annual income for females, without considering any other factors at all. Differences in overtime worked, industry distribution of employees, positions worked, work history, there's a cavalcade of confounding variables that effect the results but aren't reflected. There was a report done that tried to account for such factors, and it came up with a comparatively tiny difference (it was 90-odd cents on the dollar at worst) and a handful of additional factors that couldn't be properly isolated and investigated with the available data sources that would tend to adjust the number closer to parity by an indeterminable amount.

For example, if someone made the same hourly rate as me, but worked no overtime, they'd earn "73 cents to my dollar" by the logic used to get the unadjusted wage gap, and "56 cents on the dollar" compared to someone working the maximum amount of overtime my employer allows. Are they getting equal pay for equal work? Why is that different if that someone is a woman?

-a woman's right to do with her body what she wants

To the extent that it does not adversely affect males in a disproportionate way; I agree. I believe women should have the right to an abortion to determine whether or not they have a child; I do not agree their decision be forced on the male.

If I recall from the other thread, I think we agree here. Pro-choice, feel men should also have the option to opt out of the rights and responsibilities of parenthood within a limited window (before a certain point in pregnancy or within so many days of being notified of paternity, whichever is later [so she still has the option to abort if she wishes, so long as she advises him of paternity in a remotely timely fashion while he retains his options if she doesn't]). Remember a man who doesn't want to be a parent is a deadbeat scumbag, a woman who doesn't want to be a parent is pro-choice. =)

-a woman's worth is not inherently tied to her ability to reproduce and a man's desire to copulate with her

Outside of sexual reproduction, I agree. Similarly, a man's worth is not inherently tied with his social status and female's desire to access his resources.

Again, I agree. Outside of, well, sex and reproduction (alone or in combination) her ability to reproduce and men's desire to have sex with her should be irrelevant. I'm not sure attractive women want to be treated like men though, that's a big loss of beneficial treatment.

- a fair representation of women and men in management positions

I disagree. Equal representation is not necessary for equal parity gender wise. Our current government (USA) is dominated by men; yet every right and provision is granted to women by these men. Exactly what would change in politics if we had a few more women and a few less men in it? Their job function remains the same; serve the civilian community and insure equal rights and protections to everyone in it.

How will a business change if a CEO is a female as opposed to male? The structure of the business is still primarily determined by it's product/service value and process. Will KFC serve their chicken in pink buckets instead? We're arguing semantics at this point are we not?

Tyriless' problem here is the good old standard representation = opportunity argument that gets seen kind of shockingly often with people arguing about equal opportunity in employment.

An example: There is a job where I work that has more individual positions than everyone else combined. No women hold this job. Is that discriminatory? Now I get to throw in that only one woman has ever even applied, and she failed the same test that 80+% of applicants fail. Is it still discriminatory because we didn't give a position to a substandard performer even though she was female and we don't have any women in that position?

- a women or men having to endure sexual harassment to maintain or progress through their career.

I think you may have not worded this correctly; do you mean *avoid* sexual harassment?

I think tyriless meant "endure", in the sense that having to be on the receiving end of sexual harassment should not be necessary to maintain or progress one's career. I can't see any real issue with that, at least until we define "harassment" in too broad a sense.

If you believe in none of these, you are huge dick.

Does that mean if I only believe in some I'm half a dick? I just want to make sure I understand the insults lobbied at me.

I think it's important to note that tyriless used a gendered insult demonstrating a shocking degree of misandry. After all, tyriless is insulting someone by associating them with a penis. If a slang terms for a vagina had been used as an insult here, it would have been considered absolute proof of misogyny by people that I would love to turn loose at a dog show for trolling's sake.

About "A no is a yes that just needs a little convicing." To qoute Joel from The Last Of Us trailer - "You are treading on some mighty thin ice here." So pressuring someone into sex is rape now? That´s questionable. Dickish, yes, but rape?

I should add that this was the response given to the question "does no mean no?" And the fact that someone wouldn't agree with that statement is incredibly frightening, not least because "a little convincing" has so many different interpretations. If you can't take a person's decision at face value and respect it - especially when it comes to something like sex - then you are straying into the area where ignoring a refusal of consent is OK.

There becomes another shade of nuance that needs considered -- was the question exactly "Does no mean no?" or "Does no always mean no?", and how many of those "A no is a yes that just needs a little convicing"s had a "sometimes" prefixed on them?

We actually had a thread on here not that long ago where one of the core topics was miscommunication of consent. If no always meant no and yes always meant yes, things would be so very much simpler. The problem is that no sometimes means yes, yes sometimes means no, sometimes body language gives one answer while verbally the reverse is being supplied, sometimes explicitly asking changes the answer (because it wasn't complicated enough without quantum consent) and so on and so on. Several men in that thread complained about the lack of clear, concise, and consistent yesses and nos from women (which then led to a whole argument about how it obviously wasn't women's responsibility to communicate consent clearly but rather men's responsibility to interpret them perfectly).

If she is conscious then who cares if she's black out drunk, she's making a decision to sleep with a guy. You are responsible for the decisions you make while inebriated.

I've been in the position where a girl came up to me at a party, pulled me downstairs to her room, begged me to fuck her, and then passed out. When she woke up, she told her boyfriend (who she neglected to mention the night prior) that I'd raped her.

So what you are saying is you are a rapist.

ok cool glad we cleared that up.

Presumably you were going for the first paragraph in what you were replying to?

I always find it interesting that for whatever reason, an intoxicated woman is "unable to consent" but not "responsible for the decisions you make while inebriated" while an intoxicated man is "responsible for the decisions you make while inebriated" but not "unable to consent". Because holding intoxicated men and women to the same standard creates a lot of situations that either stop being sexual assault entirely or become mutual sexual assault which is inconvenient for the desired "men bad, women innocent" narrative. Interestingly, it creates one of those cases where the "right" feminist perspective is the one in which we deny women agency.

There's also a twitter hashtag #ineedmasculism which was originally created by 4chan as a means by which to bait internet feminist trolls. It opened with some not terribly unreasonable positions and a few mildly trollish ones, and then exploded into mockery and being trolled like this (ironically, without realizing that the purpose was to turn loose all the hatemongers that come out when someone wants to discuss those topics in one easily collectible place to make a point):

#Ineedmasculism because #TellAFeministThankYou was very, very threatening to my hard-earned privilege.
#Ineedmasculism because there's not enough wrestling on tv
#ineedmasculism because I'm a fucking idiot, apparently
#ineedmasculism because I'm not enough of a man to be comfortable with myself when there are strong women around me.
#ineedmasculism because this one time, I'm pretty sure a woman was chosen for something over me, but I bet she wasn't even better
#INeedMasculism because i'm tired of being dehumanized by the opposite gender constantly. oh wait that has never happened.
#INeedMasculism because - HAHAHAHA sorry, I couldn't even finish that sentence with a straight face, even while trying to troll it.
#INeedMasculism because otherwise I might have to compete for money, power & status on my own merits! And I'm frightened I'll lose.
#INeedMasculism because I have no actual merit and it's the only way I can be sure I'll get ahead.
#INeedMasculism Men get erectile dysfunction, unless they visualize women as victims and helpless.
#ineedmasculism because I hate the idea of having to share the planet with the other 50% of the population.
#INeedMasculism because I'm the tall white one in my relationship and everyone knows that means I should get all the power.
#ineedmasculism to die in a fire.
#INeedMasculism because I can't differentiate between sexual frustration and institutionalized oppression.
#INeedMasculism because 0.001% of rapes are female on male and the FEMITOCRACY is doing nothing to address this epidemic.
#INeedMasculism because asking for consent is haaaaaaaard
#iNeedMasculism because these sandwiches won't make themselves
#ineedmasculism because I do not yet comprehend that I am actually a machine that churns out sex when you put in 'Nice Guy' tokens.
#INeedMasculism because I spend so much time on the Internet, bereft of human interaction, that I'll believe any misogynistic shit I read.
#INeedMasculism because that fucking slut ***** won't sleep with me because she doesn't realize how much of a nice guy I am.
#INeedMasculism because the privileged will sink to any level to hold on to their privilege.
#ineedmasculism because women are dangerously close to being considered people. the horror. THE HORROR.
#INeedMasculism because I can't be satisfied with just the (at least) five other forms of privilege I have.
"#ineedmasculism because it's easier to blame feminism than admit that women don't want to be with me because I'm repugnant."
#ineedmasculism because, I'm a hateful lil shit who worhips straw-1950's
#INeedMasculism because developing a self-confidence and respect for others is too hard, so I have to blame women for all my problems.
#INeedMasculism because I am being chased by enormous wild vaginas
#ineedmasculism because I'm a weak, useless, socially retarded neckbeard that sees being "Just friends" as a punishment.
#INeedMasculism because I dont want to make my own sandwiches.
#INeedMasculismBecause "chauvinism" sounds too girly and French.

...though there are a few who didn't realize it was trollbait and posted some serious items like:

#INeedMasculism because you cannot achieve gender equality by focusing on one gender's problems
#INeedMasculism Because when women found a rights group, they are applauded. When men do, they are demonized and scolded.
#INeedMasculism because, believe it or not, there are some mixed messages about what it means to be a man.
#ineedmasculism Because I could not identify the abusive relationship I was in, because I did not know men could even be abused.
#ineedmasculism Because my sexual assault was dismissed as ?You probably enjoyed it man.? and ?A women could never do that to you.?
#Ineedmasculism Because my college is divided 70f/30m. Nationally it?s nearly 60/40. But There is no outcry to help young men.
#Ineedmasculism Because I know too many good, loving fathers, denied access to their children.
#Ineedmasculism Because my right to bodily integrity that Feminists clamor on about for pregnant women, was taken from me hours after birth.

Interestingly, there are people using the trolling of #tellafeministthankyou that came after the trolling of #ineedmasculism in the same way that the trolling of Sarkeesian was used -- as proof of what horrible misogynistic hatemongers men on the internet are while either not recognizing or actually justifying trolling #ineedmasculism. Take from that what you will.

 

[Insanely Asinine]

I would definitely say you suffered a severe injustice

How? He was found not guilty.

I think you missed the part about being jailed until the trial.