Feminism’s Real Target is Masculinity

The following thought meme is gaining some traction; you may have seen it:

the-feminist-fangirl:

I care about the problems of men. I care that the patriarchy tells men that they have to be stoic beasts incapable of emotion. I care that the patriarchy tells men that they are lust-filled monsters incapable of controlling their own libidos. I care that the patriarchy tells men that they cannot be raped or assaulted because the patriarchy believes women are too weak and inferior to be dangerous. Feminists did not do this to you, other men did.

Cracked.com recently did an article arguing this same bullshit point, going so full retard as to suggest that the best way to help men was to advance feminism. That way our video games will stop turning us all into rapists. I could spend plenty of time tearing this sophistry into neutron particle sized shreds but that’s been done much better by others. What I want to point out is the little window this argument opened into the larger strategy of third wave feminism, one that has been worming its way through the subconscious of a million scarfwearers across the world. Something never spoken aloud, but implicit in every single point ever made by feminists:

Feminists don’t hate men. What they really hate is testosterone.

Bear with me a second and I’ll show you what I mean. Let’s take a look at some of the behavioral characteristics scientifically linked to high testosterone:

- aggressiveness

- risk taking

- quick to make decisions

- confrontational

- high sex drive

- analytical rather than intuitive thinking

For simplicity, we’ll refer to these traits as masculine and the lack of them as feminine. To illustrate, think of the worst masculine boss you ever had (NOT necessarily male; we’ll get to that). He was probably aggressive, argumentative, hard headed and he threw his weight around with no regard for people’s feelings or opinions. Now think of the worst feminine boss you ever had (NOT necessarily female; again, we’ll get to that). She was probably passive aggressive, unwilling to tackle problems directly, expected to be obeyed without giving good reason why, and obsessed with covering her own ass.

That’s the worst of masculinity and femininity. Both characteristics have best qualities as well, but I think this illustrates the difference most clearly. Maybe you can see where I’m going when I point out that feminists HATE masculinity.

If you want to see someone state it overtly, here’s a great example:

jubileeparker:

Men are walking dicks fueled by sex drives. There is no thought, love, compassion, or need for companionship in the way we experience these things. They think they feel it, especially when highly aroused, but they don’t feel what we feel. Everything they feel is related to their want for sex and a need to suppress their insecurities by pretending to be the big, macho manly man. They’re incapable of experiencing life as a fully realized human being, as their experience is constantly and forever tainted by their inclination toward violence and desire for sex, with these two being somehow mangled and permanently linked together in the testosterone-damaged male psyche.



It doesn’t always have to be this way. We can treat it with medicine. Reduce their testosterone levels once they’ve surpassed their sexual prime and are no longer as useful for reproduction. Possibly through castration or introducing estrogen into our food and drinking supplies.



Men would make such wonderful companions and, dare I say, might even be trust worthy and safe for us if society would permit us to tame them and assist them in overcoming the inherent and dangerous flaws evolution was so unkind as to bestow upon these, our would-be brothers in humanity.





See? Men aren’t the enemy! Stop saying feminists are anti-men!

Okay, so obviously this bitch be crazy. Surely she doesn’t represent the moveme-

“The male brain is a human brain that has been damaged by testosterone.” - Greg Laden

This guy gets on panels, but still, just an outlier. The smart ones don’t say it so overtly. They say it more like Steve Almond does, when writing “Is it Immoral to Watch the Super Bowl?” for The New York Times:

Pro sports are, by definition, monetized arenas for hypermasculinity. Football is nowhere near as overtly vicious as, say, boxing. But it is the one sport that most faithfully recreates our childhood fantasies of war as a winnable contest. It has become an acceptable way of experiencing our savage impulses, the cultural lodestar when it comes to consuming violence.

And here’s one by Tumblr favorite Jonathan McIntosh:

“Hypermasculinity” and “patriarchy” are the current go-to words, but what Mr. McIntosh unintentionally reveals is that both of those words are deliberate code for masculinity.

Y'know, like this nice lady explains:

This is how Laverne Cox can become a beloved feminist icon. Maleness is not the target of this generation’s feminism. The target is masculinity, which means actual sex is largely irrelevant. As long as you reject masculine traits, you’re in. To be “cis” means you either possess masculine traits, or you are attracted to them, either of which makes you the enemy.

This is why I am not a fan of the term “white knight” when it is used to describe male feminists. It implies that they are involved in order to win the approval and admiration of potential girlfriends. But that is an attempt to interpret things through the lens of “What could get me, a masculine person, to act like this hamster?” The truth is that most male feminists are as bought in as any female feminist. After all, they arguably have more reason to hate masculinity than women do.

This is also what distinguishes third wave feminism from its earlier counterparts. Previous feminists sought to expand the options of women in areas where women were trying to advance and meeting resistance. The current school of feminism focuses all its attention on areas few to no women have any interest in being. Why does Anita Sarkeesian spend all her time decrying the horrible misogyny of video games that female gamers have never really noticed or cared about? It is NOT so that more women will get into gaming; Anita hates games. What she hates about gaming’s supposed “unquestioning boys club” isn’t that there are no girls allowed; but that masculinity might exist somewhere where it will be accepted and allowed to express itself. That, in essence, is the campaign of modern feminism: to purge society of all traces of masculinity, to make it clear that its expression is wrong and something to be ashamed of. To make sure the boy in a dress knows he is accepted but the boy who likes to hit things with sticks is bad. Eclipse Phase, an indie game developer, recently banned anyone identifying as an MRA:

If you self-define as an MRA, please fire yourself as an Eclipse Phase fan. We don’t want you. We want our forums to be open and inclusive, and we don’t see the point of debating with you anymore. You have other places on the internet where you can wallow in the awfulness of your male privilege.

A guy who suggested that the MRA message might not be inherently sexist was told he was treading “dangerously close to being an mra/misogyny apologist” and that he should shut right up if he wanted to keep his account.

It is no coincidence that capitalism, based on the masculine notion of competition, is another bedrock target of SJWs in general.

Feminists have often said “If we have them so angry, it must be because we’re right.” Feminists, let me explain to you why you have “them” so angry. Your objective is so much more destructive than an objective to oppress men. You seek to oppress testosterone. You think masculinity itself is the enemy and you are constructing cultural institutions and false perceptions of reality that tell anyone with masculinity that they have something wrong and bad inside them. Something that will cause them to rape. Something that causes them to oppress women while being unaware and unappreciative of their own privilege. Something that will always direct them to see violence as the best solution. Terrified of that masculinity, you levy a series of campaigns targeting video games and football, but the message you are quite clearly sending every young person is “good boys are feminine.” That message is far more destructive to men than an actual anti-male message could ever be. And now you’re trying to tell us that that message actually helps us.

“Just lay still, little Billy. This is for your own good."