# Anti-Feminism
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-feminism/725390
**Category:** Great Debates
**Created:** [July 17, 2015, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-feminism/725390 "2015-07-17T06:05:12Z")
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### Author:  [@LinusK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LinusK)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2015, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-feminism/725390/1 "2015-07-17T06:05:12Z")
This topic is hard to write about: first, because there’s a certain social opprobrium in being against feminism - especially if you’re a Democrat and a liberal. Second, because feminism is (and I would argue always has been) so ingrained in our collective culture that exposing it takes a lot of writing.
I’m going to start with what I consider both the most difficult and most important concept: feminism is not, and has never been, about exterminating patriarchy.
Feminism is about providing women with freedom without accountability; while at the same time attempting to define for men what it means to be a man (which happens to overlap with what it meant to be a man under patriarchy.)
Feminism uses patriarchal ideology to advance its own interests. After all, one of the defining characteristics of patriarchy, when it comes to men, is the demand that men put women’s concerns - and especially their safety - above the concerns of men. Under patriarchy, a man who fails to put woman’s safety and concerns above his own, is not a real man.
Feminism uses that patriarchal idea to ridicule and shame men who become critics of feminism. It’s simple to do: any time men organize themselves: for example, in a “Men’s Rights Movement” (a terrible name, by the way), you simply question their masculinity. “No ‘real man’ would be part of such a group.” It’s a common example. It’s easy to say, and hard to disagree with. Real men do not need help or advocacy, after all. Men take care of their problems themselves. You may say that’s unfair or unequal, or even “patriarchal”, but the idea is so ingrained in our culture it’s useless to fight against. Feminists, in fact, are quickest to use it. Which is an example of how feminism is both (a) not about equality, and (b) not abut eliminating patriarchy. Feminists are very quick to advance patriarchal ideas, when it suits their interests.
Feminism is also not about “equality”. The claim, however, is extraordinarily useful: after all, who could be against “equality”? Feminism is about advancing the interests of women, period. And particularly about advancing the interests of the women who are already among the most privileged people on the planet. (By the way, if anyone reading this sincerely believes feminism is about equality, I’m not questioning your sincerity: I’m just saying you’re wrong.)
The next part is more difficult: it’s an attempt to show the cultural and biological roots of patriarchy, and how it’s intimately related to the reality of male disposability. It’s important because it illuminates why patriarchal roles (at least for men) are so difficult to dispose of, while at the same time showing why feminism has been so successful, despite the ridiculousness of many of their demands and actions, and the fact that feminists themselves can’t agree about, well, anything, really, including what it means to be a feminist.
Humans are thought to have evolved in Africa 5-8 million years ago. Many species of humans are thought to be [dead ends](http://humanorigins.si.edu/education/intro-human-evolution), however:
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> Most scientists currently recognize some 15 to 20 different species of early humans. Scientists do not all agree, however, about how these species are related or which ones simply died out. Many early human species – certainly the majority of them – left no living descendants.
When you think about human physiology, humans are very strange creatures. We combine two evolutionary traits that don’t naturally go together: very large heads, and bipedal locomotion. The result is very difficult pregnancies for human mothers, combined with a very long period of helplessness for human babies.
If you ever watch nature shows on TV, you might have seen a gazelle, for example, or a wildebeest give birth. The process is very quick and apparently painless. Furthermore, the gazelle is on its feet within minutes, and able to follow to the herd within a few minutes more.
Human birth, on the other hand, is extraordinarily painful. It takes many hours, and it’s so difficult (in the absence of modern medicine) it’s not uncommon for human mothers to actually die in the process. Then, once the baby is born, its utterly helpless, and dependent on its mother, for at least a year, and relatively helpless for years after that. Furthermore, in the last months leading up to childbirth, a human mother both requires more resources than others, while simultaneously hampered in her ability to gather the resources she needs. Then she continues in that condition (assuming she’s nursing and caring for her baby) for at least a year after that.
What that means is that a human mother needs to live in a community of some kind, and for there to be at least one person (the stronger, faster, tougher, and higher-ranking the better) who is especially concerned with both protecting her and her child and providing the additional resources she needs to successfully produce a new, living human being.
That many species of humans died out is at least some evidence that they never successfully made the transition from “me-first” to “her-first” in terms of biological and/or cultural imperatives. This transition, however, is necessary for humans (as a species) to survive. If you abandon, or fail to provide for, a human mother, because she’s consuming more than she’s producing, or slowing the group down, or whatever, you may increase your individual chances of survival, but you eliminate the chances that your species will survive.
Furthermore, if you assume that groups of humans competed with each other for resources (such as food, shelter, territory, or water), groups that successfully protected the women, even at the cost of losing men, would eventually and inevitably out-compete groups that failed to do so. The reason is simple: the reproductive rate is determined by the number of women. (As an extreme example: one man and 100 women could produce 100 children in a year. One woman and 100 men could produce 1.) The corollary is the evolutionary cost of losing an individual man is very low. The cost of losing a woman, on the other hand, represents an absolute, irreplaceable decline in reproductive rate of the entire group. If there was something dangerous to do, men did it.
This may be one explanation for the difference in success rates of men and women when it comes to reproducing: [women have twice the successful reproductive rate as men](http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/20/is-there-anything-good-about-men-and-other-tricky-questions/?_r=0). Another way to put it is that men have historically been about twice as likely to die without reproducing, compared women.
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> While it’s true that about half of all the people who ever lived were men, the typical male was much more likely than the typical woman to die without reproducing. Citing recent DNA research, Dr. Baumeister explained that today’s human population is descended from twice as many women as men. Maybe 80 percent of women reproduced, whereas only 40 percent of men did.
Anyway, if you’ve made it through all that, you should see where I’m going: the idea that a man’s role is to protect and provide for women is not new. It is perhaps as old as the human species itself - or, at least, that part of the human species we’re descended from. Patriarchy may have codified, or emphasized, the idea, but the idea itself is not new.
Here are some examples of patriarchy in action:
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[li]When the Titanic sank, in 1912, [72.7% of the women survived, vs. 19% of the men](http://optional.is/required/2012/04/25/titanic-visualized/). Similarly, among children 15 and younger, 62.6% of the girls survived, vs. 22.5% of the boys. Subsequently, some of the men who did survive, killed themselves, because of the shame of being a man who lived. [/li][li]Similarly, in nearly every war that’s been fought, it’s been men who were sent to do the killing, and the dying. Not women. (During WWI, “white feather girls” used to pin white feathers on men of draft age, that were not in military clothing.) [/li][li]Today, [the most dangerous jobs are done mostly by men](http://www.bankrate.com/finance/personal-finance/10-most-dangerous-jobs-us-1.aspx): fishing, logging, pilots and flight engineers, garbage disposal, roofing, iron and steel workers, construction, farming and ranching, trucking and mining. [/li][li]In fact, [92% of all workplace fatalities happen to men](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_fatality). To put it differently, you’re 11 times more likely to die on the job if you’re a man than if you’re a woman. [/li][li]Women are disproportionately likely to get custody of children after a divorce, and men are disproportionately likely to go to jail for failing to pay child support, [even if they don’t have money to pay it](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/20/us/skip-child-support-go-to-jail-lose-job-repeat.html). (Remember [Walter L. Scott, the man shot 8 times in the back?](http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20150407/PC16/150409468) He was running because he had a warrant for child support.)[/li][li]Ever wonder why news reports say (for example) “100 people died, including 17 women and children”? This, again, is patriarchy: the idea that women’s (and children’s) lives are more valuable than men’s.[/li]
[li]Then there’s the [sentencing gap between men and women](https://www.law.umich.edu/newsandinfo/features/Pages/starr_gender_disparities.aspx): [/li][quote]
If you’re a criminal defendant, it may help—a lot—to be a woman. At least, that’s what Prof. Sonja Starr’s research on federal criminal cases suggests. Prof. Starr’s recent paper, “Estimating Gender Disparities in Federal Criminal Cases,” looks closely at a large dataset of federal cases, and reveals some significant findings. After controlling for the arrest offense, criminal history, and other prior characteristics, “men receive 63% longer sentences on average than women do,” and “[w]omen are…twice as likely to avoid incarceration if convicted.” This gender gap is about six times as large as the racial disparity that Prof. Starr found in another recent paper.
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[And there’s this case](http://www.ifeminists.com/introduction/editorials/2002/0423a.html):
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> When Etta Ann Urdiales was murdered in Colorado, two completely different juries convicted two different people of the crime. Both juries believed there was only one murderer. One convicted Bobbie Hogan, a woman. The other convicted Jess Jacobs, a man. She got 10 years in prison. He was put to death.
> This case is just one example of the rampant discrimination men face in criminal courts throughout the United States.
From the same source:
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> Department of Justice figures show that being male increases a murderer’s chance of receiving a death sentence by more than 20 times. And the data repeatedly confirms that men receive higher sentences than women for the exact same crime.
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> One study, published in Justice Quarterly in 1986, examined 181,197 felonies in California and found that, for the same crime, being male increased the chance of incarceration by 165 percent. Being black, in comparison, increased the chance of incarceration by 19 percent.
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> Another study, published in Crime & Delinquency in 1989, examined non-accomplice crimes and factored together the number of charges, convicted offenses, prior felony convictions, as well as the race, age, work history and family situation of the accused and found that “gender differences, favoring women, are more often found than race differences, favoring whites.”
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> In yet another study, published in the International Journal of the Sociology of Law, researchers Mathew Zingraff and Randall Thomson found that being male increases sentence lengths more than any other discriminatory variable.
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> The bias applies to victims as well as the accused. When Edward Glaeser of Harvard University and Bruce Sacerdote of Dartmouth College examined 2,800 homicide cases randomly drawn from 33 urban counties by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, they found that killing a female instead of a male increased sentences by 40.6 percent. Killing a white instead of a black, in comparison, increased sentences by 26.8 percent.
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> Even when the exact same type of crime is accounted for, the disparities still persist. For example, a drunk driver who kills a black male receives an average sentence of two years. A drunk driver who kills a white male, four years. A drunk driver who kills a white female, six years.
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> To those who recognize the problem, gender stereotypes are a major culprit. In a 1991 NCFM report titled “Gender and Injustice,” researchers John Ryan and Ian Wilson suggest the problem stems from stereotypes about women being more innocent, more reformable and less dangerous than men. Barbara Swartz, former Director of New York’s Women’s Prison Project, called it the “chivalry factor” and says, “If there were more women judges, more women would go to jail.”
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> Others attribute the problem to the devaluing of male lives.
You might think an organization dedicated to equality between men and women would be up in arms about such an obvious and well-researched disparity. And you’d be right; unless you were talking about feminists:
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> In 1980, the National Organization for Women and the National Association of Women Judges formed the National Judicial Education Program to Promote Equality for Women and Men in the Courts (NJEP). In 1986, they wrote “Operating a Task Force on Gender Bias in the Courts: A Manual for Action,” which became the manual used by gender bias task forces nationwide. **The manual opens by stating that gender bias operates more frequently against women and that it is not a contradiction for task forces to focus primarily on bias against women in courts.**
[Bolding mine.]
None of this is what feminists want to hear about, or talk about, or even acknowledge.
What they prefer to do, is to complain about men taking up too much room on the subway. Or to lionize people like Emma Sulkowicz, who made up a lie, turned an innocent man’s life into a living hell, completed her senior thesis by carrying a mattress around, and is now capitalizing on her success by [releasing a sex tape](http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2015/06/05/mattress-girl-emma-sulkowicz-just-released-a-sex-tape-heres-my-review/).
Or by promoting the idea that we live in a “rape culture” by getting [young women to walk around undressed](http://photos.thechicagostar.com/Destinations/2013-Destinations/September-2013/7-Sept-2013-Slutwalk/) to draw attention to “slut walks”. (That we live in a “rape culture” is especially silly, given that rape is the second most serious crime there is, after actually killing someone.) That feminists are not particularly concerned about prison rape - rape that happens primarily to men - perhaps goes without saying.
Anyway, I’ve written more than what most people are willing to read, so if you’ve made it this far, congratulations! Please comment.
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### Author:  [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2015, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-feminism/725390/2 "2015-07-17T06:11:28Z")
Dude, enough already.
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### Author:  [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2015, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-feminism/725390/3 "2015-07-17T06:37:16Z")
A controversial thesis!
All I can say, at the moment, is that traits that enable a society to survive when society is a few families in the jungle or tribes in the mountains may not be the same traits that are rewarded in a rich and prosperous modern society.
So why be surprised when niches are exploited?
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### Author:  [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2015, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-feminism/725390/4 "2015-07-17T06:45:33Z")
This is an interesting article from the New Republic in that vein. The writer calls for freeing women from the need for full time employment, since most women don’t want full time employment:
> **[Liberate Women From Full-Time Work](https://newrepublic.com/article/122291/liberate-women-full-time-work)**
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> Hillary Clinton is pushing family-friendly work policies. Here's a different idea.
So is this feminism, or anti-feminism?
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### Author:  [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2015, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-feminism/725390/5 "2015-07-17T07:18:06Z")
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> I’m going to start with what I consider both the most difficult and most important concept: feminism is not, and has never been, about exterminating patriarchy.
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> Feminism is about providing women with freedom without accountability;
Cite? (You’d better be prepared to back up the thesis that the entire endeavor is about that, not just this or that individual or organization)
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> in a “Men’s Rights Movement” (a terrible name, by the way), you simply question their masculinity. “No ‘real man’ would be part of such a group.”
Most feminist criticisms of the “men’s rights movement” have been that its participants are not sufficiently different from “men” in the “real men” sense. Few feminists embrace the phrase “real man” as some kind of positive term.
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### Author:  [@Rune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rune)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2015, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-feminism/725390/6 "2015-07-17T08:01:52Z")
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> The cost of losing a woman, on the other hand, represents an absolute, irreplaceable decline in reproductive rate of the entire group. If there was something dangerous to do, men did it.
I’ve seen this often repeated, and believe it’s a misunderstanding of the nature of evolution. Evolution works on the individual level, meaning for each individual man there is no greater catastrophe than losing his own life (or that of his children). Other men & women in the group only matters to the extend that they’re close family (which of course they tended to be) – the group as a whole, not so important. The difference in reproductive success was due to women being handled as resource on line with cattle and to polygamy. (also birthing was dangerous. In recorded history it was only recently that the average lifespan of women exceeded that of men)
And Emma Sulkowicz is done for. Much like Monica Lewinsky she’ll never be able to outrun the story; she ruined her own life unless she wants to turn it into some kind of reality show like Paris Hilton.
Anyway, modern feminists are silly. Patriarchy, trigger warnings and micro aggression. Nobody takes them serious outside US campuses.
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### Author:  [@JVDaly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JVDaly)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2015, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-feminism/725390/7 "2015-07-17T08:41:37Z")
3rd wave feminism is held in contempt by so many (including a lot of women) for three reasons:
1). It relies on a lot of shit awful arguments. The wage gap myth has been debunked. The claim that 1 in 5 women are raped on college campuses has been debunked. The claim that we live in a “rape culture” (whatever the fuck _that_ is) has been debunked. Even the once unassailable idea that men are “privileged” and lead easier lives than women has clashed with observable reality and lost.
2). It focuses its energy on bullshit: “Manspreading” (I’ll close my legs when you put your fucking handbag _under_ the seat!), “Mansplaining” (because, of course, women _never_ talk down to men :rolleyes:), rape jokes (but not murder jokes, cancer jokes, holocaust jokes, pedophilia jokes etc…), trigger warnings (toughen up!) and so on…
3). Their standards are applied inconsistently, especially when it comes to the sins of white men vs men of colour. If a white man suggests that women should dress a little more conservatively so as to avoid attracting the attentions of murderous, psychopathic rapists, he’ll be pilloried from here to the fucking moon. But millions of women the world over are forced, either directly or indirectly, even in Western countries like the U.S. and the U.K., to wear shit like the niqab, a garment which _explicitly equates piety with the total invisibility of women_ and the response is…_crickets._.
So yeah, anti-feminism, at least as it pertains to this modern incarnation of feminism is actually a pretty tenable position.
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### Author:  [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2015, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-feminism/725390/8 "2015-07-17T09:40:13Z")
Look, I’ll agree that the vast preponderance of feminist writings are nonsensical, but you really have not helped your cause with the OP.
I don’t think any right thinking person has an issue with many of the things you write against, except a few… women getting easier treatment in the criminal courts for the same offence for instance.
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### Author:  [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2015, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-feminism/725390/9 "2015-07-17T10:26:08Z")
This does not describe most feminists or feminism as far as my understanding. In my understanding, feminism (for most feminists, anyway) really is about advocating that women be treated equally and fairly by law and by society.
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### Author:  [@Robert163](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robert163)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2015, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-feminism/725390/10 "2015-07-17T10:30:26Z")
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> This does not describe most feminists or feminism as far as my understanding. In my understanding, feminism (for most feminists, anyway) really is about advocating that women be treated equally and fairly by law and by society.
Do you agree with the main point of the posting, that for almost all of human history women were both weaker and more valuable and needed to be protected? Do you agree there is some truth to that, a lot, none? What do you think?
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### Author:  [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2015, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-feminism/725390/11 "2015-07-17T10:44:51Z")
I’d like to hear of some pre-modern cultures where females were considered more valuable than men. Can you tell me of one where, for instance, female babies were thought to be more fortuitous than male?
Because it seems to me that throughout history, boys were considered far more valuable than girls. After all, boys could help out on the farm, while all girls were good for was for dumping on some other family - and even then, you had to pay a dowry.
Women may have been considered valuable property that required protection, but then, you could say the same about livestock. Doesn’t mean that men were less valuable than sheep.
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### Author:  [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2015, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-feminism/725390/12 "2015-07-17T10:45:59Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#):
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> This does not describe most feminists or feminism as far as my understanding. In my understanding, feminism (for most feminists, anyway) really is about advocating that women be treated equally and fairly by law and by society.
As a political movement I agree. As a social movement, where women “vote” by expressing their desires, it’s a hodgepodge of inconsistent positions. Like women should get equal pay and equal promotion opportunities and should work, but only if they choose to. As a political movement, feminism is about equality: rights and responsibilities. As a social phenemenon, most women fall prey to human nature: they want the good stuff that comes with equality without giving up the good stuff that comes with inequality.
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### Author:  [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2015, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-feminism/725390/13 "2015-07-17T10:53:34Z")
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> Do you agree with the main point of the posting, that for almost all of human history women were both weaker and more valuable and needed to be protected? Do you agree there is some truth to that, a lot, none? What do you think?
There might be some truth to that part. I’m not sure how it’s connected to what he says about feminism, though, which seems mostly wrong to me.
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### Author:  [@Robert163](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robert163)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2015, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-feminism/725390/14 "2015-07-17T10:57:07Z")
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> There might be some truth to that part. I’m not sure how it’s connected to what he says about feminism, though, which seems mostly wrong to me.
Agree with both of your points
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### Author:  [@Grotonian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grotonian)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2015, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-feminism/725390/15 "2015-07-17T12:25:07Z")
If feminists really wanted equality, why aren’t they screaming for the chick in this video to get charged with assault? She clearly hit the guy first, just not as hard, because she’s a girl.
> **[Video Shows FSU QB De'Andre Johnson Punching Woman In Face At Bar](https://deadspin.com/video-shows-fsu-qb-deandre-johnson-punching-woman-in-fa-1716030886)**
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> Police charged Florida State quarterback De’Andre Johnson with battery last month after he allegedly punched a woman in the face at a Tallahassee bar. Legally, it’s still “alleged,” but today the state attorney’s office released a portion of the...
For those who don’t care enough to watch, it’s FSU QB Deandre Johnson hitting a girl in the face AFTER she hit him in the face. He was kicked off the team and charged with assault, she got nothing.
Feminists, I presume, are outraged that she wasn’t charged, but I haven’t heard any complaints.
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### Author:  [@BrightSunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrightSunshine)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2015, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-feminism/725390/16 "2015-07-17T12:28:06Z")
Other than equal sentencing for equal crime and circumstances (which I agree with), what are your policy suggestions?
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### Author:  [@BrightSunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrightSunshine)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2015, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-feminism/725390/17 "2015-07-17T12:33:05Z")
> [@Grotonian](#):
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> If feminists really wanted equality, why aren’t they screaming for the chick in this video to get charged with assault? She clearly hit the guy first, just not as hard, because she’s a girl.
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> [Deadspin | Video Shows FSU QB De'Andre Johnson Punching Woman In Face At Bar](http://deadspin.com/video-shows-fsu-qb-deandre-johnson-punching-woman-in-fa-1716030886)
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> For those who don’t care enough to watch, it’s FSU QB Deandre Johnson hitting a girl in the face AFTER she hit him in the face. He was kicked off the team and charged with assault, she got nothing.
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> Feminists, I presume, are outraged that she wasn’t charged, but I haven’t heard any complaints.
It seems like he was grabbing her shoulder and pulling her hair at the beginning of the video. Since he laid hands on her first, her punch can be motivated by self defense. Especially if they are strangers, I don’t see what is wrong with what she did.
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### Author:  [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2015, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-feminism/725390/18 "2015-07-17T12:37:34Z")
> [@Grotonian](#):
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> If feminists really wanted equality, why aren’t they screaming for the chick in this video to get charged with assault? She clearly hit the guy first, just not as hard, because she’s a girl.
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> [Deadspin | Video Shows FSU QB De'Andre Johnson Punching Woman In Face At Bar](http://deadspin.com/video-shows-fsu-qb-deandre-johnson-punching-woman-in-fa-1716030886)
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> For those who don’t care enough to watch, it’s FSU QB Deandre Johnson hitting a girl in the face AFTER she hit him in the face. He was kicked off the team and charged with assault, she got nothing.
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> Feminists, I presume, are outraged that she wasn’t charged, but I haven’t heard any complaints.
It says he grabbed her (after she “confronted” him about pushing past him) and then she hit him. Would have to know more, but it’s not quite as one-sided as her just hitting him…
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### Author:  [@Construct](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Construct)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2015, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-feminism/725390/19 "2015-07-17T12:38:47Z")
Excellent post. OP, you may be interested in looking into the evo-psych movement to bolster your claims.
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### Author:  [@Rune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rune)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2015, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-feminism/725390/20 "2015-07-17T12:55:11Z")
> [@Grotonian](#):
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> AFTER she hit him in the face.
That was hitting him? Looked more like a slow dab by a weak teddy bear.
Girls are slow and weak, while they shouldn’t go around punching people, you cannot respond with your full force.
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