Barely Political
What's wrong with Feminism?
What's so wrong with feminism?
A new study claims that unflattering stereotypes of feminists are actually unsupported. Shocking! I wish I would have known this when I was first birthing my feminist ideals. When I became pro-choice, I thought I wasn't allowed to shave anymore. O man, we [the ladies] can be people and groom too?
Feminism has had it pretty rough in the stereotype department:
"Equal rights, equal pay? You must be gay!"
"You don't want your husband to beat you anymore? You she-beast!"
"Don't like your boss pinching your ass? Ew, you're just like a dude."
Why is everyone so angry at feminism? It's as if there is some secret yesteryear where femi-nazis roamed the earth and emasculated men aplenty. Forced men to cry and read Virginia Woolf? Or worse, Camille Paglia?! Well we must have done something scary and terrible to elicit such poor reviews.
I don't ever remember a time when we ruled and it's really not fair we're so reviled. It's just not realistic. I even went to a pretty prestigious all-girl's high school only to see girls chastised for wearing short skirts ("It's distracting to the male teachers!") rather than encouraged to think outside the box. Or with it, rather.
It's not even a hot topic in this presidential race. Except that we have a viable woman candidate and, you know, the whole abortion thing. But Hillary doesn't want to appear too feminine or feminist. Giuliani has the same problem. Everyone has pretty canned answers when it comes to women's reproductive rights. Bo-RING!
I want to do one better. I want to create an epidemic of female chauvinism. I feel it may balance out the excessive masculine energy we have in our culture. Come on let's just try it!
Ladies whenever you see a member of the opposite sex, immediately think of how superior you are to him. He lacks all of those feminine qualities that make you so great. Qualities such as:
• Intuition
• Empathy
• Sauciness
• Beauty
• Love
• Sincerity
• Compassion
Instead of trying to compete in a man's world using masculine qualities, amaze and beguile with your dazzling dame skills. Intuition will serve you in the most ways. Being able to navigate and go with the flow are important qualities in any successful person, and these are abilities built in to women!
Look down upon men in a condescending way, poor man, he'll never be as awesome as a woman. I feel sorry for him I really do.
Replace all hes with shes. We're 51% of the population, majority rules.
And don't give me that Adam came first stuff or he gave us his rib. Bullshit, that's a negotiable translation at best. And biologically speaking, women come first, everyone starts as a woman. We win!
Don't think we're tough? We have a higher threshold of pain (hello childbirth!) and we live longer.
Assume anything associated with the feminine is the better choice. Choose pink over blue, prefer dresses to pants, Ann Coulter to Bill O'Reilly. Just kidding, we all know she's a man.
But be careful, you might end up voting for Hillary just because she's a woman. (eh, no worse than not voting her because she's one, either!)
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