TelHybrid said:
Which brings me to my next point, post modern feminists. Back when feminism first started, feminists were actually fighting for something. Modern day feminists are purely supremacists. Nothing more.
There is a difference between *postmodern* whackos like Judith Butler who have wet dreams about Foucault, Derrida and Lacan, and *modern* feminists like Martha Nussbaum who have important things to say about issues that (yes) still exist. Off the top of my head, pop culture is saturated with misogyny, reproductive rights are still unequal, sex trafficking is a serious problem in the developed world and even worse in the rest of the world, rape victims are still persecuted and rapists normalized, school teachers continue to handle boys and girls unequally (to the detriment of boys as well as girls, though at least girls have some support programs in place to help somewhat).
Not to mention we still don't bat our eyelashes at the systematic social discrimination against people who behave in cross-gender ways that ends up steering women into life "choices" that let them earn 78% of what men earn. Because the wage gap *is* in significant part a result of female choice (though Wal-mart is trying hard to prove otherwise), but really, what is choice the result of, if not years of parental, peer, social and media pressure that squeezes us all into little boxes? Yet it doesn't have to be that way; parents can easily create an environment where they aren't pressuring their kids into anything, and other social influences can present similarly diverse pictures of life.
So I'd have to add to the list the notion that feminists necessarily run around saying things like "Buffy the Vampire Slayer is obviously a homophobic patriarchal rape fantasy because her womanhood is denied by a group of men and she rapes female-coded vampires with her phallic wooden stake". There are lots of them out there, but that's not all there is.
Of course, gender stereotypes work both ways - men are constantly dealt the short end of the stick in spheres of life beyond politics and economics. We're the stupid, drunk, childish, irresponsible, inherently thuggish jerks who apparently don't know how to give a damn, and all we're good for is making money and screwing people over; we almost never get custody in a divorce even if the ex-wife was a child abuser (I have a friend whose father had to fight over ten years to get her and her brother away from their physically and emotionally abusive mother who eventually started stealing money from both her children) and we don't have any control over whether we get stuck paying alimony for kids we never wanted (not that we should be able to force abortions, because that's just being a prick). Not a pretty picture, and not how I'd want my (hypothetical) son to think of his place in the world.
So, yeah, lots of gender misconceptions out there, and they all piss me off, too.
