March 2009
10 posts
“That makes it feel a little like feminists are inventing problems and forcing...”
– Squasher (via antifeminism)
If you admit that sexism exists in the case of Sarah Palin, how can you turn around and argue that it suddenly doesn’t exist for anyone else? Is it okay for someone who is not a feminist to argue that they’ve experienced or seen sexism, but feminists, by virtue of being...
“That makes it feel a little like feminists are inventing problems and forcing...”
– Squasher
Re: Sarah Palin and the Feminists: What went Wrong
Squashed, thanks for your response. However, we remain unconvinced. Your argument, albeit eloquent, essentially carries the same talking points we’ve repeatedly heard before. In fact, your argument further convinces us that feminism remains an exclusionary movement that seeks to advance some women with a very specific set of beliefs. Because of its ideological nature, feminism will...
We're back online!
After a full day’s of hard work at the AF Headquarters, we’re finally back to respond to a few reblogs and comments that have been going around the Tumblverse.
We would like to start with Squashed. We consider it an honor to accept Squashed’s challenge. We’re all big Squashed fans here and we strongly believe political discourse would be highly elevated if everyone...
Thank you!
AF appreciates the great response and following this blog has already gotten. I suspect there are many out there with similar views but afraid to express them.
We’ll be responding to reblogs, particularly Squashed’s, later tonight.
Antifeminism Tumblr →
jessicado:
This tumblr recently followed me. I am not sure who the creator is, but here is my response to the proposition made on their blog:
In defense of feminists, I would like to advocate that yes, there are some who fight for women being greater than men. Yes, there are some who look down on domesticity. And yes, there are those who despise makeup and choose to sport the “grungy” look. But...
Exercising the "block" button
jgh:
On a new Antifeminism tumblr. Byebye, morons.
ETA: Oh, and what Robot Heart said. You’re not attacking Feminism. You’re attacking Straw Feminism. That’s one big swinging e-peen you’ve got there - must feel good to reduce scarecrows and boogey-women to Funfetti.
Exhibit A for a typical feminist’s angry, intolerant way of “debating”. Note the use of name-calling and...
“Let me give the women of the West a clue – “liberation” means that you are free...”
– Nancy Levant - Feminism and the Control of Womanhood
“The feminist movement as we have come to know it in recent decades is...”
– Robert Sheaffer
It would also be fair to add Sarah Palin to the list of women who have dared challenged traditional feminist views, and have thus been labeled ‘enemy of women’ by the so-called defenders of all women.
“Feminists who ceaselessly inveigh against their own oppression by men (often...”
– F. Carolyn Graglia