Feature: Pressing Issue 105: Feminism

V · Indymedia Hound

By Emily B. Demented

Can I shock you? I’m a woman, but I think abortion is wrong. There, that surprised you didn’t it? I bet you thought that every British woman was in favour of abortion. You’re wrong, so wrong. Some of us don’t want to murder our babies. We want to be mothers, we want to cradle our darling little ones on our knees. I don’t care if the father is a crack addict and my baby’s missing a spinal cord. I’m a decent woman and I’m quite against slaughtering babies.

It’s all the fault of these beastly feminists. Feminism was, like, alright a long time ago, but now it has gone just too far. Women aren’t oppressed by men anymore, they’re oppressed by feminists and their politically correct allies. They’re practically forcing abortions and contraception on women. Contraception, it’s hideous, as good as murder. All over Britain girls are being denied the chance to have three, eight or even twelve children and spend a whole lifetime in the house. That’s the so-called choice feminists offer!

What’s worse is that the feminists are killing off all the good men. Us girls just want a huge hunk to hold us, provide for us and occasionally slap us around when they come home late from the pub! But the feminists have feminised all the men! Now they’re caring and want to spend time with the children. It’s sickening. I mean what’s wrong with a bit of marital rape now and again? It keeps a marriage healthy. But the PC police will have none of it, probably explains why the divorce rate is up.

Politics, don’t the feminists realise us girls can do without it? I mean, why should we have the vote? It just gets us into more arguments with our man. We should let him choose the Prime Minister. After all we’d much prefer to be cradling our darling children than dealing with the messy affairs of state. Of course the feminists will have none of it, every five years we’re forced to the polling booth. And the feminists talk about choice!!???

Education, it’s just wasted on us girls. The feminists have forced generations of British women to read and write. Don’t they realise it just causes so many worries for us girls? I could do without the stress of reading the papers and having to settle the bill at the shops. Just give me a few memorised Bible passages and a wonderful hubby to do all the maths and I’d be in heaven!

So let’s do away with these feminists, 'cause, let’s face it, they don’t dress like girls. In fact some of them might be lesbians. I’ve never met any, but I’m pretty sure they dictate government policy on most issues. The feminists are just so unbearable, can’t they just get married? Frankly if this carries on it will be the end of Western civilization.

So girls, let’s be our own feminists. Be like me, I’m a feminist because I’m feminine!

© Copyright 2006 Numerous female undergraduates.

JulienP · Black Bloc

This wouldn't be as a response to an article by a certain redbrick ex-news editor we all know and love would it? Razz

Again a very amusing article V!
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deadman · Meeting Facilitator

A Word on Feminism

'down with the Patriarchy!'

Hoo hoo! Shocked

Well, this is refreshing! It’s nice to see someone expressing themselves with satire. For those who don't get it, this is a rewording of an article that appeared on here, which argued against Feminism. Seeing as nobody else has picked this article apart with traditional Radish fervour, looks like I will have to do the honours.

JulienP · Black Bloc

Not being funny, but where does Feminism say any of the things you've mentionned above? There is no Feminist Manifesto, and even if there was Marxism has taught us that these kind of texts can be interpreted in, used and abused in so many different ways, so relying on it to show what all feminists believe would be flawed. The point I am long-windedly making is that where the f**k have you got your ideas about feminism from? Feminism in my mind is about female liberation, doing exactly what you described, women doing what they want!!!
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higuy · Black Bloc

seems we have another contentious debate on the radish, dont mind if i get involved!

[quote="deadman]
Feminists hate children. Society is no more than an artifical construct to them, so what use are children? Why further a family line, or experience the joy of being a parent, [/quote]

hoo hoo thats a bit strong! JulienP makes a fair point when when he talks about ideology. An ideology can be twisted and thus interpreted in many different ways. The same process has happened with the Bible, (lets not get into that one). What more in this modern age we have seen the death of ideology. Whereas some people maybe libertarian on social issues they can be very right wings on economic issues. Therefore to prescribe such a rigid set of views to a set up people who class themselves under the term feminism can only be misleading.

Let me be very un-academic and talk about my personal experience... *yawn* but hell we can all relate. We all know at least one feminist, i do history and politics, i think i know a few. None of them hate babies!!!! Most would not think society is an artificial construct. Feminism is, like any other term in discourse, open to various interpretations. You are perfectly entitled to your own, however some of the points you make i believe it is unfair to attribute to women (or men) who call themselves feminist because they believe women should not expect to earn 80% of what a man earns in the same job or no female gradute should expect to earn 15% less then male graduates.

I dont doubt that feminism has in many respects been harmful to this socities sense of masculinity but to attack feminists' i think is misplaced.

steven · Black Bloc

You learn something new about phpbb's censorship rules everday - apparently the shortened name of the National Socialist party of Germany is out...

Anyway, the feminism and shit - I'm gonna have to join the chorus of voices suggesting that you have a very distorted view of feminism. I believe most of the women I know would call themselves feminists, and I very much doubt they would recognise the portrait of extremist femnism you've painted. And none of them seem to hate men much. They don't seem to hate me, anyway. Although I am a pussy.

To assume all of feminism is encapsulated by its most militant section is like assuming all Muslims are terrorists, because the most dislikeable ones are.

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steven · Black Bloc

I'd completely say that psychoanalysis is a philosophy rather than a science, although that obviously doesn't make it any less relevant to how we look at things.

Jules, Jung was a bit of a chauvinist (and was accused of anti-semitism, although I'm a lot less convinced by that), but his theories don't exist purely to put women down: that's just a side-effect that he probably wasn't too upset about. He wrote absolute piles of stuff, and most of it is to do with psychology, culture, religion, etc., and as Gorky's said, Memories, Dreams, Reflections is well worth a read.

As for your own thoughts on it - I'm a little confused: at the end you say it's "nurture more than nature", but then you say it's environmental rather than social, which seems to be the exact opposite.

And if this is group therapy, are any of us getting better?

Personally, I quite like women in trousers, but we must remember that I'm some kind of self-hating feminist, so maybe I don't really like women in trousers. Discuss.

JulienP · Black Bloc

naivehottie · Black Bloc

It depends what elements of gender roles.

Things like wearing skirts/trousers are clearly social constructs, but differences in things like personality, areas of intelligence etc. are largely genetic, but more on a scale so on average one task may be easier for females, whereas another may on average be easier for males, but there's a huge overlap.

Some things are back to when people had more children, so women were pregnant for a large part of their lives and so had to stay at home while the male worked, which is also partly why they looked after children. This has both nature and nurture elements as the differences are partly inherited and partly socially past on despite the virtual irrelevence to modern living.

So I'd agree it is both nature and nurture, roughly equally in my opinion.

steven · Black Bloc

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