Oct 05 2007
Why Anti-Feminists are Stupid
Anne Arundel County Public Libraries allow you to read e-books. So I grabbed a couple to read at work to combat my boredom, and one was a self-help book about ten mistakes couples make.
Before everyone starts freaking out about my marriage, everything is fine, I just figured a little reading never hurt anyone, minus a paper cut or two.
Well, the author(a woman) has this extensive foreword about how feminists are ruining America because they’re promoting the idea that women should go out there and screw anything that breathes. That this idea is somehow the sexual freedom feminists demanded, and it’s responsible for all our problems with intimacy today.
What a crock. I don’t consider myself much of a feminist, but it seems to me, much as Lois Griffin said on Family Guy, that feminism is about CHOICE. As a woman, I reserve the right to have sex when and with whom I choose. I reserve the right not to be judged by my sexual conquests exclusively. I reserve the right to know about and use contraception. That is sexual freedom.
People who hearken back to the olden days and somehow think that things have gotten worse are so incredibly misinformed, that I don’t know where to begin.
Let’s start here. The author criticizes premarital sex extensively. There has always been premarital sex, just usually on behalf of men, which is apparently okay. I am sick of people pulling this bologna about how premarital sex is emotionally damaging and hurts our society. No, it isn’t and no it doesn’t. Stupid people having sex in stupid ways is emotionally damaging and hurts our society. But that’s a lot harder to define, and most people, let’s face it, lack critical thinking skills. This fact explains a lot of behavior, like why the author and so many other women, seem so bent on going back to the past, before feminism destroyed the world.
The author is a doctor, a feat not many women accomplished before the women’s rights movement. Feminists sure are ruining our world, sacrificing their time so we have the opportunity to become educated, to support our children, to own property, to vote, to divorce abusive husbands, to choose to have sex, to choose to have children, to choose to be married, to choose to have jobs. Damn those women to hell, I wish I could stay at home and wear high heels while I make a meatloaf for my darling husband and then we can retire to our separate beds.
I don’t know exactly why, but it’s always the religious women who complain about feminism because their God didn’t intend for us to do anything except have babies and obey our husbands. Apparently we women can’t be trusted to think for ourselves.
I’m not sure how those women propagate the internet with their ignorance – I mean, shouldn’t they be cooking or having babies or something. Thinking is a skill, one that demands consistent practice and use, one you have to learn. If someone else is doing all your thinking, why are you going on the internet to spread what you believe, which is namely, what someone else told you. Leave that to those men, the ones that you obey. The ones who say that women have no control over what they do so they need the guidance of a man. It’s true, you know. In fact, it’s WoDM’s fault that I’m fat and lazy, if he hit me more often, I’d jump right back in line. [Ed. Note Webmaster of Doom, Michael, has requested that I clarify this remark by saying if "he hit me at all," but I feel this harms the comic effect. For concerned parties, WoDM does not hit me. ]
In other news, I’m quitting with this book and reading one on veganism instead.
K.
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