Some have described YouTube comments as a disaster on an unprecedented scale.
Well the factual feminist viewers are very much the exception,
your comments and questions are great maybe the best on the Internet.
I'll respond to some of them coming up. Now a commenter named
Rendar Smith rights in response to the rule of thumb video,
"Christina I love what you do but you have got to drop the feminist label
the movement has failed its filling society with anti-male bigotry."
Well this is probably one of the most common criticisms
that I get, why call myself a feminist?
Well I became a feminist in high school
back in a last millennium. I grew up
a with a style a feminism that has nothing to do with what passes for
feminism today.
It wasn't about denigrating manner fixating on victimhood
it was about being a free responsible self determining being
and in my writings I call that style a feminism equity feminism
or more recently freedom feminism. Freedom feminism stands for the moral
social
and legal equality of the sexes and it's a great American success story.
I still believe the world needs a healthy
evidence-based women's movement, and I think the major battles for a quality in
opportunity in the United States they have been fought, they have been won.
But the work a feminism remains unfinished across the globe there are
women's groups struggling to survive in the face of genuine sometimes violent oppression,
and despite women's immense progress in the US
the poverty rolls are still disproportionately filled with women and children.
So I think the unique circumstances women require
special attention and sometimes protection.
Having said all that I am well aware
that in the minds of many feminism connote irrational male blaming paranoid
worldview
and I admit I'm mortified by all the fuss about
trigger warnings in micro aggressions and checking your privilege.
I mean the spectacle of those panicked Wellesley women demanding that a statue of a guy
be removed from campus because it reinforced the rape culture,
"That a controversial statue of that man walking sleepwalking, I should say
in his underwear
is triggering apprehension fear and even awesome sexual assault."
I mean to my mind that is not feminism that's just madness.
But I'm also aware that men in the United States as much as women face
problems
I think it's hard to say was better off it's a complicated mix have burdens and
benefits.
So to answer the question I fully understand that many may wonder why I
don't clearly distanced myself from the extremists who have run off with
feminism.
Why not commit myself to a more inclusive cause call it Peopleism
Equalism? Well I'm tempted
but you know I'm just not ready to give it up.
I think the movement it has a noble history
and it has to be reform from within, and one last thing
if it bothers you that I call myself a feminist,
just remember this, it bothers the gender warriors at Jezabelle
even more. On to the next comment this one
comes from Alice Ward.
And Alice Ward points out that
the rape culture activists insists it is wrong to be disrespectful
and and to assume that women lie about rape, but then she says
"The thing that has always confused me is according to these feminists
mentor evil enough to rape, murder, commit all kinds of heinous acts
yet women aren't evil enough simply to lie."
Well I think that's shrewd observation Alice
I would call that the Women are from Venus Men are from hell
school of feminism. Well please keep sending me your comments and questions
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