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cheshireinthemiddle:

fandomsandfeminism: thevolutionofnerdy: fandomsandfeminism: thevolutionofnerdy: Do you know what I hate? I am constantly being accused of being a bigot because i’m not a feminist. I support how feminism was in the seventies, but now days, I don’t agree with the movement. I agree with equal rights, but not feminism. So,… I don’t support what it has become. The movement these days is mostly filled with hate. I came on Tumblr to not be called sexist, and it hurts you would automatically assume I am a sexist because I don’t support a movement that has lately been filled with nothing but hate. I support equality, so I don’t understand the problem. Also, for the record, I am a women. The value of liberation movements is not measured in how comfortable and positive it is. We’re trying to dismantle centuries of systematic oppression and violence, but you don’t like it because some of us get pissed off some of the time? The problem, my friend, is that you apparently recognize a problem but are unwilling to actually do anything about it. Nope. That is how you turn into a hate movement. You cant get mad when people judge it on its actions. People recognize that feminism often supports inequalities, espcially moderm feminists and feminists lile yourself. Feminists have fought by the hundreds of thousands to keep gendered rape definitions applied. Literal inequality. It comes with a consequence of people not wanting to associate with it. Attacking feminists in the group who are critical of feminism. Makes the group look bad. Feminists supporting gendered funding and laws would help men is a bit of a downer. People may rightfully question if the group is for equality. Trying to make suicide, murder, and gendered terrorism all about women doesnt help either. Not putting effort into studying what groups outside of what your movement wants to protect have to go through makes the group look ignorant. Then on top of that, attacking people you dont like based on ghis ignorance makes it worse. Assuming MRAs are just a bunch of white men who have no rights to fight for just makes you seem bigoted and biased. Laughing at groups you dont care about when they express what they go through makes you sound hateful. And excusing this bad behavior from yourself and other members of your group makes you and your movement seem to have a bad concept of equality. You cant be loud, biased, rude, and one sided, then be surprised when people seek equality outside of his mindset.

“The value of liberation movements is not measured in how comfortable and positive it is.“

Okay, so I, and other women, are required to put up with abusive behavior from feminists because “liberation” isn’t “comfortable or positive”?

I’m supposed to put up with Gloria Steinem saying that young women only voted for Bernie Sanders because the boys were?

I’m supposed to put up with far too many feminists to fucking count who blatantly, unabashedly suggest that there’s something wrong with me because I choose not to be a feminist? That I’ve been brainwashed, or I’m too stupid to know what I’m doing?

I’m supposed to put up with feminists screaming “my body, my choice!” but then claiming that every fucking depiction of a woman in non-conservative clothing is “catering to the male gaze”?

I’m supposed to put up with feminists who will pretend that LGBT+ women (including me?) don’t exist unless it’s convenient for them to acknowledge? Newsflash, friend, you can twist and turn and hem and haw all you want, but it doesn’t make the male gaze theory any fucking less homophobic!



I’m supposed to side with feminists who are more than willing to remove or dismiss a woman’s bodily, mental, emotional, or sexual autonomy because it suits their argument at the time to do so? (i.e. “oh they did it because patriarchy”)

I’m supposed to put up with feminists who have proven that they are MORE THAN WILLING to silence me or disrespect my voice when I start saying things they don’t agree with??

Fuck that shit.



What you are, what a lot of your movement is, is entitled. You feel entitled to silence women who disagree with you. You feel entitled to treat women who don’t toe the party line poorly. You feel entitled to scapegoat men for every goddamn problem in the world so that you don’t have to admit the undoubtedly very uncomfortable truth: Women in the western world really do not have it that fucking bad. Things could be improved here and there, but overall, it ain’t that fucking bad at all.

But no, please, keep stomping your feet and pretending that everyone else is the problem, and that feminism has 0 responsibility in how it’s perceived, and that the women who reject it are just silly or stupid. That’s gonna win you loads of fans.

Fun Fact: Part of being empowered means taking responsibility for yourself and behaving like an adult.

Grow up.

