Why I Am NotA Feminist

By cishetwhiteoppressor.tumblr.com

My Personal ReasonsFor Rejecting The

Womens Rights Movement

Contents

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1. Introduction 32. The Definition 4 - 123. Reality 5Feminist Quotes 5 - 8Recent Activism 9 - 11Feminists Fighting For Equality 12 - 13

3. Priorities 14What Is Feminism Fighting For? 14Womens Rights/Mens Rights 14 - 15Mens Issues 16 - 18

4. Conclusion 19

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1. Introduction

As an outspoken non-feminist blogger, I am used to people simply not being able to wrap their heads around the idea of someone, especially a woman, not being a feminist. And I can not blame them. Many hold the belief that feminism means equality, and that not beinga feminist must mean that you hate women and do not wantthe genders to be equal. But it really is not that black and white.

I would like to point out that the intention behind this book was not toshame anyone for being a feminist. Anyone is free to use whichever label they want and support any movement they want. But this bookis meant to portray, to anyone who is willing to listen, the reasons people have for not wanting to associate with feminism. Since I know that people are not feminists or identify as anti-feminists for various reasons, I am not trying to be the voice of millions of dierent people with dierent ideas and beliefs. These are simply my opinionsand views. They do not represent anti/non-feminists as a whole.Nevertheless, I tried my best to shed some light on what feminism currently looks like in the public eye and why it is getting a worse and worse reputation. I am hoping that this might inspire some open-minded feminists to stop seeing anti- and non-feminists as the enemy, and to start working on ghting their real enemy - the people who gave them a bad reputation in the rst place.It is not us who are the problem most of us are not turning our backs on feminism out of vile reasons.

We are simply a symptom of the disease that has infected the movement. And it is only getting worse.

2. The Definition

Dictionary.com

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Merriam-Webster

: the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities

: organized activity in support of women's rights and interests

Oxford Dictionaries

The advocacy of womens rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men.

Like many ideas, feminism seems great in theory. A movement advocating the rights of women, how can that be bad? Well...

3. RealityMost feminists will try to disregard the horrible, sexist and immoral acts of fellow activists by reciting one of those definitions or simply claiming that feminism is equality. Therefore, anyone who does not fight for gender equality, is not a real feminist. However, feminism is far from being only a belief, it is a movement. We simply can not deny that.

The most vocal and representative individuals are usually the ones who shape the public opinion on a social movement. Because of this, we can easily find the reason for feminisms bad reputation in the acts and words of famous feminists:

Since marriage constitutes slavery for women, it is clear that the womens movement must concentrate on attacking this institution. Freedom for women cannot be won without the abolition of marriage. - Sheila Cronin, the leader of the feminist organization NOW

http://now.org/now-foundation/about-now-foundation/mission-statement/

The National Organization for Women Foundation was established in 1986 as a 501(c)(3) education and litigation organization allied with the National Organization for Women, the largest feminist activist organization in the United States with its national offices in Washington, D.C. and hundreds of affiliates across the country.

Feminist organization? Lets see how influential they are....

They sound like they could give us some insight into the movement. Maybe they can educate us on their goals and intentions. 5

The feminist Organization NOW has:

- filed a lawsuit in federal court against fatherhood programs in Alaska, Idaho and Oregon. The objective of these programs is to provide career counseling to fathersin three tough categories: incarcerated, military and fathers with disabled children. NOW has objected because women are excluded from these programs "solely because they are women."

https://nationalparentsorganization.org/blog/1177-now-takes-fatherhood-1177

- posted action alerts against shared parenting bills that would give fathers equal custody rights.

http://www.now.org/nnt/03-97/father.html

- claimed, with no evidence, that Family court routinely give abusive fathers custody of the children.

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/04/newark_protesters_rally_agains.html

Like many feminists, they also still havent realized that the 77 cents per dollar pay-gap has been debunked over and over again, and are contributing to the spreading of misinformation in many ways. One of their main goals for 2014 was a Paycheck Fairness Act, an attempt to replacethe 1963 Equal Pay Act, based on the assumption that thegender pay difference exists because of discrimination, and not like everyone else has already realized, because of different choices.Not the best start...

http://now.org/about/conference-resolutions/2014-national-now-conference-resolutions/

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Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice.

Only when manhood is dead - and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it - only then will we know what

it is to be free.

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women,

is called theory, or idea, or fact.

No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

Q: People think you are very hostile to men.A: I am.

Q: Doesn't that worry you?A: From what you said, it worries them.

- Andrea Dworkin

And it obviously doesnt stop there:

Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists, and that's all that they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, and their codes. Marilyn French

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The institution of sexual intercourse is anti-feminist. Ti-Grace Atkinson

When a woman reaches orgasm with a man she is only collaborating with the patriarchal system, eroticizing her

own oppression.Sheila Jeffrys

The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race.

Sally Miller Gearhart, in The Future If There Is One Is Female

And if the professional rapist is to be separated from the average dominant heterosexual (male), it may be mainly a

quantitative difference. Susan Griffin, Rape: The All-American Crime

More Quotes:http://thoughtcatalog.com/jake-fillis/2014/05/23-quotes-from-feminists-that-will-make-you-rethink-feminism/

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrea_Dworkin

The problem is not that the above women exist, every movement will always have members who go way overboard. The main problem is that they are free to spread their hateful propaganda without ever being called out for it, because otherfeminists usually just dismiss them as fake.The whole of feminisim is to blame.Negative ideas about feminisim and feminists do not exist because of asmall minority of extremists. It exists because moderate feminists allow them to be their voices. 8

Recent activism done in the name of feminism:

One of the examples of feminist activism I just love to remind people of is the famous campaign against man-spreading. It is simply a great example of feminists finding something harmless men tend to do for harmless reasons, claiming it affects women negatively, and then starting an attack on them via social media. Nobody cared to shame women for putting their bags onto the seat next to them, neither did they care about fat people spreading over two whole seats. The real issue to them was men doing something masculine.http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/new-york-metros-campaign-to-stop-manspreading-9938025.html

Feminists fighting for womens rightto not have to ask a man Can you please close your legs a bit? ever again.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/11234620/Dr-Matt-Taylors-shirt-made-me-cry-too-with-rage-at-his-abusers.html

Dr Matt Taylors shirt made me cry, too with rage at his abusers

An astrophysicist who deserves our applause has been pilloried in his moment of triumph

sexist pig harmlesslyexpressingher sexuality

Feminists fighting for womens rightto shame men for what they are wearing,bully them and be complete hypocrites. 10

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2014/09/04/gamergate-a-closer-look-at-the-controversy-sweeping-video-games/http://kotaku.com/the-problem-with-the-casual-cruelty-against-women-in-vi-1626659439

Feminists fighting for womens rightto censor forms of media they are not interested in and know nothing about.

Even though there is no valid evidence that video games cause violence.

And many female gamers do not mind sexy video game characters.

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Feminists being simply amazing people:

Pizzey has been the subject of death threats and boycotts because of her research into the claim that most domestic violence is reciprocal, and that women are equally capable of violence as men. Pizzey has said that the threats were from militant feminists.

Feminists threaten to kill woman for saying men need abuse shelters.

Feminists prevent a meeting about male suicide, call it hate speech.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erin_Pizzey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iARHCxAMAO0

Feminist attacks male cartoonist and is hailed a hero of feminism.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Solanas#The_shooting

Feminists disrupt a forum about battered husbands.

Men's activists hold a public forum to discuss the possibility of giving male victims of domestic violence some of the social services that are currently only available to female victims. Feminists, who strongly oppose any recognition of male victims of abuse, disrupt the forum and try to shut it down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qodygTkTUYM

Womens groups: Cancel law charging women with rape!

The Knesset Law Committee on Tuesday decided to postpone a vote on second and third reading of a bill to add the crime of rape by a woman to the statute book after womens organizations warned that it would lead to a situation where women would be afraid to charge men with rape.

http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Womens-groups-Cancel-law-charging-women-with-rapeFeminists against beyond reasonable doubt when its male rapists.

http://studentactivism.net/2011/07/21/preponderance-of-the-evidence/

Feminists say men cant be raped.http://www.hindustantimes.com/newdelhi/only-men-can-be-booked-for-rape/article1-1021702.aspx

Swedish Left Party Chapter Wants To Make Urinating While Standing Illegal For Menhttp://www.hungtonpost.com/2012/06/13/sweden-left-party-toilet-stand_n_1590572.html

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Erin Pizzey had to flee the UK because she and her family received death threats,because feminists didnt like that she discovered women were equally as violent as men.

http://www.fathersforlife.org/pizzey/failfamt.htmSuzanne Steinmetz and her children received death threats and bomb threats she discovered that the rate at which men were victimized by domestic violence was similar to the rate for women.

http://www.ifeminists.net/introduction/editorials/2005/0525roberts.html

http://jezebel.com/294383/have-you-ever-beat-up-a-boyfriend-cause-uh-we-have

Feminists fought against laws granting men anonymity until charged with the crime of rape. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-10760239

Women should not be sent to prison and should instead serve community sentences - the Women's Justice Taskforce. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13666066

How feminist groups skewed the Obama stimulus plan towards women's jobs.http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/016/659dkrod.asp

but those are not real feminists Well, they surely are a real fucking threat to society and gender equality. And theyre doing all that in the name of feminism.and are getting away with it. 13

4. PrioritiesNow that we have learned what exactly the third wave offeminists is fighting for, its time to precify what fighting for womens rights seems to mean nowadays:

Feminists stand for:

1. Male rape victims being ignored.2. Men being attacked for sitting with their legs in a V shape.3. Men being attacked for wearing shirts with sexy womenon them.4. The issue of male suicides being ignored.5. Women not having to go to prison.6. Attacking people for making statements or conducting studies that debunk their dogmatic beliefs.7. Fathers not getting support and recognition.8. Games with sexy female characters and violence not being played and produced anymore.

Obviously, this is not what every feminist believes.And its also obviously not everything feminists have done in the past few years. There have certainly also been good things.But this is exactly the impression an outsider will get of themovement. Feminism looks like a bunch of lunatics. Because many are fucking lunatics.

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Feminists would like us to listen andbelieve that womens issues significantly

outweigh mens issues.But is this really, objectivelly, true?

Womens group WHO claims to advocate for:

- Reproductive Rights and Justice- Economic Justice

- Ending Violence Against Women- Racial Justice- LGBT Rights

- Constitutional Equality

Mens rights advocates want:

- Reproductive Rights and Justice- Economic Justice

- The Right To Have Rape And Abuse Taken Seriously

- Racial Justice- LGBT Rights

- Constitutional Equality- The Right To Genital Integrity

And now youre probably thinking Which problems could those privileged males ever have? Youre a damn MRA, arent you?.

To which my answer is No, Im just not fucking blind.

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Men

Women

79%*of suicide victims

in the U.S.are male.

Male genital mutilation is legal in first world countries.

The rape of males is in most countries legally not even considered rape.

*http://www.save.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.viewPage&page_id=705D5DF4-055B-F1EC-3F66462866FCB4E6**http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/09/education/09college.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

***http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/stories/2007-06-13/a-gender-gap-in-cancerbusinessweek-business-news-stock-market-and-financial-advice

Men are forced to sign up for draft and go to war if necessary.

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Men and Boys are doing worse in all aspects of the educational system, from kindergarten to university.**

Breast cancer gets more funding & research than prostate cancer despite affecting men at a similar rate as breast cancer affects women. ***

The youth unemployment rate for black male dropouts stands

at over 50%.*

*http://dailycaller.com/2013/03/27/male-african-american-unemployment-is-over-50-percent-among-dropouts/**http://www.theguardian.com/society/2010/sep/05/men-victims-domestic-violence

About two in five of all victims of domestic violence are men.**

"Their plight is largely overlooked by the media, in official reports and in government policy, for example in the provision of refuge places 7,500 for females in England and Wales but

only 60 for men."**

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Provision of refugeRefuge places available in England and Wales

Females

7,500Males60

Men account for 93% of all workplace deaths in America. 1

1 - http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/why-did-workplace-deaths-fall-in-2008/, http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cfoi.nr0.htm

2 - http://nationalhomeless.org/about-homelessness/3 - http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/why-homeless-men-die-22-years-younger-2297091.html

4 - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-t-pisarra/the-y-factor-gender-bias-_b_838631.html

57,849 veterans, overwhelmingly 92% male, were homeless on a single night in January 2013.Homeless men die 22 years younger than homelesswomen.

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Women win sole-custody battles 5 out of 6 times. 4

As a culture we teach men to hide their emotions even if it kills them.

Go to http://listverse.com/2013/06/25/10-examples-of-men39s-issues-

the-media-loves-to-ignore/http://time.com/2949435/what-i-learned-as-a-woman-at-a-

mens-rights-conference/http://www.avoiceformen.com/

For more information.Sources

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Obviously, this is not what every feminist believes.And its also obviously not everything feminists have done in the past few years. There have certainly also been good things.But this is exactly the impression an outsider will get of themovement. Feminism looks like a bunch of lunatics. Because many are fucking lunatics.

5. ConclusionI am not a feminist,because the word has become assiciated with misandry, hate, female superiority, hypocrisy, fear-mongering, misinformation,and complete and utter denial of mens issues.

I am not a feminist,because the movement has been doing nothing but attacking and bullying men for the past few years. Most things feminists fight for do not benefit me or other women, they do nothing to achieve equality of the genders and are downright counterproductive.

I am not a feminist,because womens legal rights have already been achieved. All that is left now is to make sure that they are preserved and empower women to make their own choices and live happy lives. Which feminists are simply not doing enough.

I am not a feminist,because I do not need a movement to represent me andbecause I do not want to fix what other feminists have broken.

I am not a feminist,because I am not a victim and men are not my enemy. They are not privileged and I am not oppressed. I am aware of the fact that being a woman can be a privilege in many ways.

I am not a feminist, because I do not need a label to believe in gender equality. 19

For more information on issues like the gender pay gap,rape culture, sexual assault statistics, domestic abuse statistics, and the societal consequences of the derailed third world feminist movement,visit my Tumblr blog atcishetwhiteoppressor.tumblr.com

and make sure to take a look at my Infographics page.

Id also recommend going tohttp://admiralfeareon.tumblr.com/debunking-feminismfor a collection of links and details on the above listed topics.

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