Quote of the Day by Proxy
Via Amber Rhea , Apostate, in reply to a commenter says
I see. So in face of daily murders, rapes, mutilations, stalkings and brutalization – of women by men – your major concern lies with the (mythical) castrating man-hating feminist.
One of my older posts about anti-feminism got picked up on Reddit the other day and I wound up with comments from, I think, fairly well-intentioned commenters that were also more upset by the various motes placed in their eyes by feminism instead of the enormous beams, pointed-on-one-end splintery beams placed in men's *and* women's eyes by anti-feminism.
And here's the deal with that: how many men are castrated by feminists compared to those actually, really, surgically and non-surgically castrated by anti-feminists? And incidentally no, Lorena Bobbit wasn't a feminist. For that matter, how many men are *figuratively* castrated by actual feminists compared to those figuratively castrated by anti-feminism? And no, Wendy Vitter is not a feminist either.
Does it happen? I'm guessing it's bound to. Do the numbers compare, even by orders of magnitude? I just don't see it.
She has a point when she says:
"They hate older women because they are sexually useless.
They hate younger women if they are sexually unavailable.
They hate ugly women because they are unfuckable.
They hate beautiful women because they often don’t make themselves available.
They hate intelligent women because they’re uppity - they perceive a value in themselves that is not exclusively sexual.
They hate independent self-willed women because they don’t realize they’re there for the sexual pleasure of men."
I have thought that came through society, not biology. When I see biology at work, I see men being strong supporters of women. It is society that amplifies that more negative aspects of our gender relationships.
As a smart (and cute) woman, I do run into me that are not sure how to take me or where to place me. But that does not define me.
It is terrible how the state of relations between men and women have collapsed.
No, the numbers do not compare.
[No, the numbers don't compare at all... nor -- unless both numbers were zero, would there be consolation if they did. Thanks, Sucre Bebe. --fl]