What does your preference have to do with feminism? Are you saying that it’s wrong to choose to save lives rather than change diapers all day (see how spin works?)? Are you saying that everyone should make sacrifices to be a stay at home parent? If so, to what extent? I certainly am very glad I don’t have to choose between having a career and a family like so many women did before feminism. Heck, I am grateful to feminism in that I can have my career at all. (Even though I am making money that the family does not strictly speaking need – are you saying that it’s wrong somehow to have a job if you don’t need the money?)
“Having it all” means having a career and a family. It does not mean simultaneously spending time on your career and your family 24/7, because that’s impossible, so being in two places at once is irrelevant.
Lucky you for being born in the right country? I grew up in a third world country without a system of student loans and a very strict university entry system. If you or your family doesn’t supply the money, 90% of the time you don’t go. Grants are given to those with very very low family income, which my parents did not qualify for (they were maybe lower middle to middle class). Wages are low and there is no minimum wage, so putting oneself through school is out of the question. There is also no going back to college as an adult.
It did turn out that I won a scholarship which was awarded to very few (roughly one in 20,000), came to the US for undergraduate, and now have a PhD. But the whole time while I was going up, my parents made it clear to me that they would not pay for my university education because I was a girl and that my purpose in life was to find a man and have children. Even when I was pursuing my PhD in a top university, I was still frequently told by my family this was a waste of time and I was wasting my prime husband-catching and baby-having years. Multiple people told me I would be unmarriageable – the worst fate imaginable – if I get a PhD.
Or if there are some core things that everyone agrees upon, those get treated as “no shit, DUUHHH!” obvious no-brainer truths self evident that should not need an ideology or a God or a movement to focus and express – as the quote above, “I don’t need to fight for what I already have”.
Indeed you can be anti-wacko without being antifeminist.
Generally Anglosphere has strong feminist values and little tolerance for dissent.
According to a YouGov Poll, 40% of women and 16% of men are feminists, while 1% of women and 8% of men are antifeminists.
When I was more vocal on discrimination against men, I had received a barrage of death threats. I contacted Law Enforcement but as of 1998 they hardly knew what Internet is.
I addressed most of this in a later post, so I won’t repeat myself.
If you really all believe this, then you’ve just invalidated the opinion of the woman in her 60’s you quoted earlier.
Interesting that you have this attitude about older women, especially when they don’t adhere to a traditional life script that you approve of. This is a typical MRA POV. Very telling as to what they really think of women:
For women, 26 is not the new 16; 30 is not the new 18; 40 is not the new 20. A woman’s peak beauty and attractiveness has a short lived shelf life and if she chooses to ignore the expiry date then to hell with ‘em. There’s a lot more for men to feel guilty about in this world then the stink coming from some expired slut meat. All these complaining older women need to actually become invisible and disappear from society. At least their younger sisters who are complaining have the benefit of still being bangable.
That’s why I said, give these tumblr women some time with their fellow anti-feminists and get back to them.
Exactly. He keeps stressing that he knows little to nothing about MRA, MGTOW, and PUA. How is that possible when it’s been brought up in previous threads with cites and quotes, he is so obviously fixated on this issue, and so into Karen Straughan?
And yet he just happens to use all their vernacular, and follows their script to the letter. It’s like someone saying he’s a big fan of Bud Abbott, but doesn’t know who Lou Costello is.
Let me ask you something: why do you think there are more men in prison than women?
Why do you think men commit suicide more often than women?
Why do you think more little boys are diagnosed with ADHD, and drugged for their condition, than girls?
Why do you think women usually get custody after a divorce? Why do men who *do * get custody get less court- ordered child support than women? Why do you think women - if they are ordered to pay it - pay less child support than men?
Why do you think men die sooner than women?
Why do women get lesser sentences than men, for the same crimes?
Why do you think men who make the mistake of calling domestic abuse hotlines get referred to abuser programs? Or asked what they did to deserve it? Or simply get laughed at?
Why do you think the California legislature passed a law that defined domestic abuse as a crime - but only if it happened to a woman?
…you do realize that most, if not all of these questions were answered in this thread, don’t you? You might want to pay particular attention to the posts in that thread that you completely ignored, those are the ones with the answers.
There’s tons of research that shows that women are much, much more likely to be severely injured or killed by domestic violence. This reality does fit the feminist framing of the issue.
You’ve been starting essentially the same thread over and over again for months. They’re so repetitive that you can’t tell the difference between them yourself, as we saw in your last thread about the evils of feminism. Many of your posts consist largely of material cut and pasted from elsewhere, and while you occasionally manage to put things in your own words there’s never an original thought behind them. That’s presumably why you can’t answer direct questions: doing so would require you to think about something for yourself. You’re like a Tumblr feed of misogyny, only without the animated GIFs.