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Feminism Does Not Equal Hate for Me

I agree that originally feminism was a great thing and still could be, but it has developed into something much worse. Many feminist use there cause to hate men and transgender people. Here are some actual quotes from modern feminists: Warning contains graphic language "To have your cock cut off and then plead special privileges as women " above natural-born women, who don"t know the meaning of suffering, apparently"" - Julie Burchill "[Moore] and I are part of the minority of women of working-class origin to make it in what used to be called Fleet Street and I think this partly contributes to the stand off with the tranni"We know that everything we have, we got for ourselves. We have no family money, no safety net. And we are damned if we are going to be accused of being privileged by a bunch of bed-wetters in bad wigs." - Julie Burchill The accusation of upper-class privilege is at odds with the reality that transgender people experience unemployment at twice the rate of the general population. Burchill"s false assumption is that transgender people don"t know the suffering of biologically born women ignores the fact that transpeople are especially vulnerable to violence including sexual violence. Transphobia in the feminist community isn"t new and continues to be promoted by feminists such as Sheila Jeffreys, Germaine Greer, and Julie Bindel who pathologize transgenderism for a variety of reasons. They characterize being transgender in various ways: as an extremely kinky sexual practice or a mental illness such as body dysmorphic disorder. Sometimes the criticism is paternalistic in claiming that transgender people are merely exploited victims of the medical industry"s drive to make money with various surgical and hormonal procedures. The 1994 book Transexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male by Janice Raymond describes being transsexual as a medical invention manufactured to create profit. Another criticism is that transgender people reinforce gender roles or expression. For example, Germaine Greer once referred to transwomen as "ghastly parodies of women" with "too much eye-shadow." Sometimes the attacks on transgender people reach conspiracy levels by those who see the phenomenon as an effort by men to turn themselves into women in order to infiltrate "women"-only spaces. Feminists Lierre Keith and Derrick Jensen blend transphobia with "anti-civilization" environmentalism in Deep Green Resistance (DGR). Julie Labrouste, a contact of Radical Women, was repudiated by DGR, which had been urging her to join until she mentioned she was trans-female. She shared the following email message that she received from the group: There has been a great deal of controversy around DGR"s stance on gender " we are a feminist organization and as such the women in our group have requested that their women"s spaces be women-only (women born women/female persons). Additionally, we believe that in general, trans*, transgenderism, and queer theory have been detrimental to the movement for women"s liberation. This is fundamental to the DGR movement and informs our work against patriarchy and civilization. This is not something we are interested in debating or changing, so DGR is likely not the best fit for you. Julie Bindel, another prominent feminist, promotes misconceptions by stating that "transsexualism, by its nature, promotes the idea that it is "natural" for boys to play with guns and girls to play with Barbie dolls"the idea that gender roles are biologically determined rather than socially constructed is the antithesis of feminism." She blames transgender people for promoting sexual stereotypes because male-to-female transgenders are supposedly driven to achieve an ultra-feminine ideal. She overlooks the fact that being transgender is about self-identification and that what someone actually does to transition is up to them and doesn"t necessarily include hormones or surgery. When some of the most prominent feminists and famous women make openly hateful anti-male statements, and the mainstream feminist organizations say and do nothing to distance themselves from such public statements, then it"s clear that the hatred of men has an accepted place in mainstream feminism. Does this seem like a harsh assessment of feminism? Perhaps. Is it true? Absolutely. One of the main problems with "feminism" is that it exploits the legitimate claims of equal rights as a cloak to usher in its divisive, hateful and neurotic interests. Interests that are plainly anti-male and not at all about equal rights. For example, here are some quotes from famous feminists. "I feel that "man-hating" is an honourable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them." " Robin Morgan, Ms. Magazine Editor "To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he"s a machine, a walking dildo." -" Valerie Solanas "I want to see a man beaten to a bloody pulp with a high-heel shoved in his mouth, like an apple in the mouth of a pig." " Andrea Dworkin "Rape is nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear" " Susan Brownmiller "The more famous and powerful I get the more power I have to hurt men." " Sharon Stone "In a patriarchal society, all heterosexual intercourse is rape because women, as a group, are not strong enough to give meaningful consent." " Catherine MacKinnon "The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race." " Sally Miller Gearhart "Men who are unjustly accused of rape can sometimes gain from the experience." " Catherine Comins "All men are rapists and that"s all they are" " Marilyn French "Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release." " Germaine Greer. The quotations above are from Kelly Mac"s blog. Kelly is "a woman against feminism" because of its anti-male agenda. https://www.google.com... http://awomanagainstfeminism.blogspot.com...