Hi everyone, I hope you’re all well.
So, I have talked about feminists and feminism a lot on this channel, on TV,
in my writing, it’s always been a large chunk of my commentary.
Specifically third and fourth wave feminism, you know, all the modern stuff
that is largely complaining for the sake of complaining by
bitter, insecure women who hate themselves and everyone who disagrees
with them.
But what I haven’t talked about a lot are male feminists; men on the
regressive left who, for some reason, buy into an ideology that
literally wants to deny them opportunities by pulling women up, at
the expense of men, via artificial social processes.
They also seem perfectly happy to exist in an environment where, at
least in the case of straight white men, they are the only identity
group who it is socially acceptable to denigrate on the basis of race
and gender.
Why men would ever side with this kind of movement has always
puzzled me.
Sure, some of the more well-meaning and weak-minded of them have been brainwashed into thinking
feminism is still just about promoting equality, and that as the
alleged oppressors, they deserve all the pack criticism they get.
To those men, I send my deepest sympathies.
However, there is a contingent of male feminist, who, from my
experience, is the largest contingent, who latch onto the feminist
movement for far more insidious reasons.
Now, we’ve all seen commentators make fun of male feminists for
their apparently eager subservience to women.
And that’s very easy to do, especially when we see tweets like this
That last tweet had nothing to do with feminism…but I just thought
you should see it
However, these puppy-dog-esque affirmations are often
symptomatic of a darker complex.
A male feminist is a usually heterosexual man who claims to support women.
But by support, I mean constantly telling them how oppressed
they are by men, and how insecure they should feel walking down
the street because of how predatory men can be, and what an unfair
place the world is for women, and don’t worry because I’m not
like other men.
I’m an ally, and I’ll stand with you against the big
bad patriarchy.
In other words, these are men who like subjugating women, and
enjoy making them feel bad about themselves.
And in feminism, they’ve found the perfect way to do this
without being called a misogynist.
Even though they are the true internalised misogynists.
With this behaviour, the male feminist can make already insecure
women feel even more insecure about themselves, thus exercising a
sort of power play over them with the eventual goal being to…well
On top of this; considering female feminists vast hypocrisy when it
comes to conservative women, the male feminist also has licence to
externally exercise his misogyny by calling conservative women all of
the most disgustingly quintessentially sexist things you can possibly
imagine.
Since lady feminists believe, in their infinite idiocy, that women who
disagree with them are capitulating to the patriarchy and thus
enabling the alleged systems of power that oppress women, all for
the sake of obtaining male attention, they are happy to admit that
conservative women lose their intersectional “woman card”.
Therefore, as apparent traitors to their gender, female feminists
think it’s perfectly fine to harass and disparage conservative women,
using all the gendered, sexist insults they would decry as misogyny if
directed at one of their own.
This is perfect for the male feminist, because he can indulge his
internal hatred of women by pouring it into sexist trolling of right
wing ladies, and be congratulated for it by feminist women.
When you put it like that; it’s very easy to
see why these types of men are attracted to feminism.
After all, modern feminist have strayed from the female empowerment mantra of second wave
feminists, in favour of 1850s couch-fainting victim feminism.
Rather than seeing women as every bit as capable as men of exacting
their autonomy, modern feminists see women as fragile beings who
need to be catered for by men, lest they intimidate or offend women
with a potential microaggression.
As such, modern feminists infantilise women; encouraging their
insecurities rather than toughing them up.
Of course predatorial, quietly misogynistic men would be attracted
to the movement.
This true internalised misogyny of leftist male
feminists regrettably extends beyond the pungent hallways of Twitter
into the real world.
Amidst the flurry of anecdotes about sexual assault that cascaded
through the public realm from October 15th, 2017, the inauguration
of the metoo movement, it seemed most of the highest profile
allegations were against powerful men of the left, many of which
claimed to be feminists.
Harvey Weinstein was the most obvious example; a lifelong donor to
the Democratic Party who attended the 2017 Women’s March in
Park City, Utah.
He was accused of the most horrific systemic sexual
harassment and assault of women over a period of several decades.
He had used his considerable power to corner young women into
granting him particular favours, which were often very much non-
consensual.
Now, let’s be real here, there are some actresses who are happy to
operate under the expectations of the ‘casting couch’.
That’s their choice.
However, there are plenty who aren’t, and many of them
suffered terribly at the hands of Harvey, but knew they would be
blacklisted if they spoke out.
Louis CK was the next; a comedian who has on occasion infused
seemingly feminist rhetoric into his routines.
He was accused of sexual misconduct by five women, and eventually
admitted to the claims.
Not to mention Joss Whedon, who, while not accused of
sexual misconduct, routinely cheated on his ex-wife Kai Cole during
their marriage, while singing the praises of feminism and writing
feminist themed scripts.
In fact, Cole said she felt he used her as a shield; so he could
continue with his bad behaviour, with nobody criticising his
relationships with women, or scrutinizing his writing as anything
other than feminist.
So how did he eventually excuse this bad behaviour to Kai Cole?
Well, in a letter he wrote to her when their marriage was falling apart, he said,
“In many ways I was the HEIGHT of normal, in this culture.
We’re taught to be providers and companions and
at the same time, to conquer and acquire — specifically sexually
— and I was pulling off both!”
Oh, how convenient!
It’s society that’s the problem, not you!
How very left-wing.
Then on October 17, two days after #metoo went viral, there was an
allegation made anonymously on Facebook about Sam Kriss,
contributor to the heavily left-leaning Vice magazine.
Kriss, a rabid socialist who Tweeted that Chairman Mao was
a “big softy” who had gone easy on his victims, posited himself
as a hero of the left and advocate for women.
However, the anonymous allegation painted him in a very different light.
The woman alleged he had groped her while on their third date,
forcibly touched her, twisted her head to make her kiss him in a
crowded theatre, and tried to force her to drink alcohol, even though
she insisted she didn’t want to.
Sam Kriss apologised for his behaviour, and while he admitted to it,
he attempted to put some context around the issue, insisting they
had a prior sexual relationship.
That old excuse.
The author also alleged that he had tried to get her to go
home with him by leveraging his parents’ big fancy house
“When I returned I sat away from him.
Then the various manoeuvres to get me to go home with him began.
I want to relay precisely how he first suggested this because it demonstrates
a willingness to laud wealth (and thus power).
Sam said, “so do you want to come back to mine to see my massive house?”
“Don’t you mean your parents massive house?”
“Yeah, but when they die I’ll inherit it”
Some socialist, amirite?
The list goes on.
On October 19, it was revealed that Rupert Myers;
GQ magazine’s political correspondent, had his freelance contract
with the publication terminated after allegations of historical sexual
misconduct by a number of women.
Around the same time, Andy Signore, creator of Screen Junkies and
the Honest Trailers series, who owned the suggestions that his show
had a “feminist agenda”, and asked his Twitter feed in April 2017 to
defend a female contributor from the “hell pit that is our YouTube
comments”, was fired by Defy Media for “egregious and intolerable”
sexual behaviour.
Former intern Emma Bower, who had worked for Signore in 2015,
alleged that he messaged her to tell her how “hot” she was, and that
he wanted come to her hotel room to behave inappropriately
towards her while she had a less than usual amount of clothing on,
Considering these allegations, it’s no wonder Defy Media gave Andy
Signore the flick.
But, interestingly enough, Defy Media had been
aware of the allegations against Signore for months, but waited until
Weinstein was ousted before they took any action.
Their statement read:
“In August, Defy’s HR team was made aware of allegations made
against Andy, at which time an investigation was launched.
On Friday, new information became available and
the scope and magnitude of his inappropriate actions became
apparent.
We are
acting swiftly to address the concerns of the people affected, and
that going forward, our community is free of harassment or
discrimination of any kind.”
Is it too much to speculate that Defy Media, a company that
promotes heavily left-leaning contributors, would still be protecting
Signore if the whistle hadn’t been blown on Weinstein?
Who really knows?
Fast forward to 2018, to possibly the world’s most famous male
feminist; Canada’s very own baby-faced golden boy of the so-called
progressive movement, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Trudeau is a self-proclaimed feminist.
He is known for his alleged advocacy of women’s rights, doe-eyed earnestness
in his vehement insistence on respect for women, and rampant
support for the #metoo movement.
He also posits such woke phrases as
He even invented a new word
Considering all this avid male-feministing, it stands to reason that in
June 2018, it came to light Trudeau had, in fact, groped a young
reporter, Rose Knight, at a music festival in Creston, British Columbia
in the year 2000.
Adding insult to injury; while Trudeau apparently apologised for the incident the next day,
he capped it off with, “If I had known you were reporting for a national
paper, I never would have been so forward.”
When the allegations came out, the world was waiting for Justin
‘Peoplekind’ Trudeau’s response.
Would he issue a pleading mea culpa?
Would he resign?
After all, Trudeau did suspend two MPs for harassment allegations in 2014, surely he
would put his money where his mouth was?
Not to do so would be the gravest hypocrisy one would have thought.
Well, as it turns out, Trudeau’s response was simply,
"Part of this awakening we're having a society, a long awaited
realization, is that it's not just one side of the story that matters, that
the same interactions could be experienced very differently from one
person to the next, and I am not going to speak for the woman in
question,"
"I do not feel that I acted inappropriately in any way.
But I respect the fact that someone else might have experienced
that differently and this is part of the reflections that we
have to go through,"
Now, I betcha Louis CK, Sam Kriss, Andy Signore, not to mention the
two MPs Trudeau suspended also felt that the same interactions
could be experienced differently from one person to the next, and
yet they were still cancelled, so to speak.
Justin Trudeau, on the other hand, was very quickly forgiven by his
supporters, and the whole incident brushed under the rug.
Which is ironic, since the attitude of “but I experienced
it differently to her” is one of the things the metoo movement was allegedly
fighting against.
But, I guess, when it comes to its darlings, especially Justin Trudeau,
the progressive movement is very, very tolerant of bad behaviour.
Groping, blackface, or otherwise.
Are you beginning to see a pattern here?
It’s always those who protest the loudest who are guilty of the
most heinous sins.
That’s true of the regressive left generally.
The most virulent anti-racist are more often than not afflicted with the bigotry
of low expectations, and hold people of colour to lower standards
of behaviour than they do white people.
The most outspoken heterosexual pro-gay advocates are insistent on
defining gay people by their sexuality, which used to be a tool of
homophobia that early proponents of gay acceptance were fighting
against.
It’s called “projection”, and it is rampant among the modern
leftist movement.
So, if you are a man who is concerned about women’s equality in the
West; please don’t be.
We’re really fine.
Yes, there are still maybe a few societal kinks to iron out, but by and
large, we have it really good nowadays.
So don’t ever, ever, fall into the trap of calling yourself a
male feminist.
Trust me, it doesn’t mean what you think it means.