Monday, September 17, 2007

Feminists and the Nazis

Excuse the unfinished feel about the article, but this is about 4 years old and has only received minor adjustments – I was angry and loudmouthed then and I hope you realize that I would write this in a tad more sophisticated manner today than I did back then.


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How does one define feminism? Once it was quite obvious who could be defined as a feminist; women, and men alike, who fight for equal rights for both genders or equality. How does one define equality? From the word alone you can assume that it’s definition is what it says; separate quantities are perceived as being equal to one another. If that would simply be the fighting cause and goal of modern feminism, to help women become equal to men in society, namely in the working environment, then sign me up right now, sadly – it’s not that simple.

Modern feminists seem to have been misguided somewhere which has given the average feminist a horrible reputation as a frontier of a human rights movement. Not only do the most venerable heads of this esteemed politically incorrect group mainly consist of individuals referred to as “femi-nazis” by myself. You heard me right, Femi-Nazis. They seem to have adjusted their fascist opinions on how to apply equality through the media into their little group of fascists.


Something must’ve happened to these thoughtful individuals when they try to justify their ignorance of basic civil rights as; free will, freedom of choice and freedom of speech. I’m not only referring to the ban of prostitution – no – I’m talking about the complete censorship of all media, be it on the internet or anywhere else. The Femi-Nazis seem to think that it’s a step into the right direction to forbid all media-coverage on subjects they find damaging to their gender. In my home country, Iceland, there was a woman who actually took her time to count the photos of men and women in a newspaper, and she found out that there were more pictures of men – and that was supposed to be a clear sign of bigotry and inequality.


They were also trying to force a law into effect whereas men could not be hired in a given job if the ratio between the genders was favorable to them. That is, if a man and a woman apply for a job with separate credentials – the man should not be hired if the gender ratio implies that there are less women in the given industry. I find this humorous – how the hell do you think that hiring a woman in a given position because there’s only a 35% female participation in the industry? How do you justify that as a logical step to improve the status of women? “Yes, we welcome this woman, not because she had the best credentials or history, but because she’s a woman, and for that we give her our utmost respect,” is this something that would give a good feedback from the industry to women? I don’t think so.


When you’re mindset is in a left-wing fascist gear – how do you expect support from the general public? When you are trying to overrule the logical decisions in society out of spite of how bad you’ve had it up until now you can’t expect anything less than negative coverage in the media, and please don’t throw at me that “Negative coverage is still coverage!” – yeah? So what? Negative coverage encourages negative feedback – and that’s something I don’t think a human-rights movement should be seeking out to do. Point out the errors in society, there are many, and inform us on how to correct them instead.


Now – to settle this, I want to remind you that Femi-Nazis are indeed Feminists, but not all Feminists are Femi-Nazis – don’t think I generalize you like that. The agenda is there for a reason and I acknowledge the arguments. But when political left-wing government officials here in Iceland think that creating a law implying that there should be equal gender ratio in all executive positions within all industries you can’t expect a cheer from me. To begin with, why aren’t there an equal ratio of the board members in most feminist-rights groups? Isn’t it called to be a hypocrite to expect us to do something what you can’t do for yourself?

"But we can't find enough men to do the job we expect them to do!" Really? That's exactly what most industry-leading companies say about women too, and you don't realize that fact.

Regards,

Molested

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Enjoying your posts, they are certainly unique from the standard fare I trawl through.

Got me thinking on the silly situation here in Northern Ireland. Job adverts consist of things like "We especially welcome applications from members of the Catholic/Protestant community", despite the fact that we have the toughest anti-discrimination laws in Europe to stop organisations hiring based on anything other than individual merit. And this kind of thing isn't actually illegal! Of course, pointing this out is a quick way to be labelled a bigot.