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 devisive, 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. You can read more of Kelly Mac’s blog at http://awomanagainstfeminism.blogspot.com/
Kelly sums it up nicely:
“If you’re going to say feminism is not a man-hating movement, I’m going to have to insist that you provide links either to sites showing feminists condemning the statements listed above, or feminists telling women to respect men as men.”
UPDATE:
It is amazing how so many people continue to turn a blind-eye to the harm that feminism is doing – typically excusing it with something along the lines of “but… Not all feminists are like that!”. Perhaps it’s a state of denial – such as when discovering what you had hoped was true is in fact a lie. Here is some relevant YouTube commentary that further discusses the above.
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For many centuries men have always been doing all the work and many of men around the world had given a lot to women
we have given you so much and why are you asking more from us? You ask for equal rights to men while you ask for laws to protect all women.
You say that men are the worst, all men are rapists. BUT you failed to realize that one of those men is the one who gave you your life, and now you’re calling all these things.
Feminist should be ashamed of themselves.
The notion that men have had it easier in society and that women were repressed IS A MYTH! A myth propagated by feminism. Allow me to prove this. We can cherry pick history and there are cases where women had it worse. There are an equal number of examples where men had it worse – much worse.
Women got the vote in Britain in 1928. When did men get the right to vote? 1918. Prior to this 2% of men had the right to vote. Voting was based on social class originally. You can only vote in a democracy and Europe had monarchies. The common man earned the right to vote very gradually as the monarchies dwindled and politicians seized more power. Women were not excluded because they were women. 1 vote was given per household and since men are the protector’s of the home it made sense that they would cast the vote.
Inequal penalty for equal crime. If a man was convicted of treason he was hanged, drawn, beheaded and dismembered. The most barbaric form of punishment ever. Women were spared this and simply burned. Men were also burned. Point is – women got a free pass. There were other cases were men were punished more harshly than women for the same crime.
Wars – Since the dawn of humanity males have fought, been blinded, beheaded, brutalized, imprisoned, sacrificed, butchered and tortured in wars while women never had to endure this brutality. War is a messy business.
The factory Acts of the 1840’s afforded protection to women in the workforce by capping the amount of hours per day they could be forced to work. No such protection for men. All men got the vote first. All women got the protection first but you rarely hear anyone cite this. Now men also have the protection but women’s rights were considered first.
Roughly men die at 72 and women 80. Men pay the same pension rates as women yet draw them 7 years less. Go for insurance and men are forced to pay higher rates than women. Why? Cause they die younger. So this philosophy is used against men in both situations and has been for decades!
Today there is far more educational funding and social services for women than men. 97% are for women.
Historically both genders have had it hard. Life was hard. Feminism spreads a myth that women have been oppressed and uses the myth to create programs and law changes to give women an advantage based on a false perception of history.
Hate is hate, regardless of the ‘ism’ that it hides behind, and hate will always be the child of fear. Life is much too short to waste in such a destructive way.
What exactly are “equal rights”? It sounds eerily like a communist ideal to me!
First of all great article. All I want to say is that it confuses me that in this day and age, that there could be hate between race, color, religion, sex, ect. I just don’t understand how people can be so self absorbed, brainwashed, and/or foolish enough to allow themselves to hate. I was absolutely disgusted about the above quotations.
Do I believe that women are equal to men, yes
Do I also believe that SOME women are trying to be MORE than equal to men, you better believe it. No better than slavery was-pathetic.
Great article, and so very true!! I am a woman but I despise most (anti-male sexist, selfish, “me, me, me” self-centeredness etc.) leaders of the so-called modern day feminist movement. To me it’s plain hypocrisy to claim to be fighting for women’s rights while trampling all over men’s rights. Even other women (like me) who put family first and career and themselves second are scorned for the most part by the “female supremacists” as I call them.
The early feminists (Carrie Chapman Catt, etc.) wanted equality such as right to vote, etc., and would be very ashamed by most of those who call themselves feminists today.
Welcome! What you say is true – thank goodness there are increasing numbers of intelligent, educated and articulate women speaking out against the real nature of modern feminism! Considering how society has evolved and where it is today, I don’t understand how anyone who is truly after mutual respect and equality could continue to insist on maintaining a clearly sexist moniker such a “feminist”.
I consider myself a feminist. I believe that gender shouldn’t be a device in which people’s capabilities are undermined or made unimportant. I do not hate men, and I certainly do not identify with any so-called feminist that practices misandry because its contradictory at best. In my opinion as a woman and a feminist, you cannot speak out against misogyny and the patriarchal idea that women are somehow less than men while being a vengeful and hateful misandrist. Not all men encompass or embrace the ideas that we, as feminists are against, and I don’t feel hatred towards misogynists. I hate misogyny. As much as I hate to say it, because I am an atheist as well, but to me feminism is a stance of “hate the sin, love the sinner”, in which we should absolutely speak out against sexism and misogyny without being hateful or vengeful. Feminism is supposed to be about educating, not about hating. I just hope you realize that not all feminists are extremists who hate all men because of what a handful of men have done!
Lissa, it’s apparently “nice” people like you who mainstream feminists rely on for PR and distraction while they go about with their organized anti-male campaigns. Again, I wonder why an apparently altruistic person would adopt a clearly sexist moniker as you have. You seem to have embraced the female supremacist ideal which shows when you say things like “Feminism is supposed to be about educating”… as if feminism ‘has it right’ and all others must hush and listen.
Re: “not all feminists are extremists…” – I suggest you view the “NAFALT!” youtube clip listed above (“Not All Feminists Are Like That”). Frankly, anyone who labels themselves a modern-day feminist is either a misandrist, or naive.
@Lissa – Misandry runs rampant and unopposed in the “femicist” (female supremacist) movement, and you truly cannot deny that in good conscience.
There is far more hatred in the feminist movement than misogny among men. This is from my own observations from the feminist movements I used to be a member of in the mid-90s. And I was only 18 then, and very naive, thinking (like you) that feminism was about equality, and still embraced the ideals of the 19th and early 20th century feminists (equal rights NOT special/preferential rights). That’s why, as a thirtysomething woman, I do not claim modern-day “femicists” as one of my brethren….
pre-1960 feminism goals = equal voting rights, equal pay, equal treatment under the law and in society.
1960-current Feminism = selfishness, misandry, preferential treatment, self before anything else… Shall I go on?
I don’t see that there is any more misogy now than there was in the 60′s. In fact, I have a hard time finding any real evidence that men ever hated women in society (talking about American society) as a whole.
What I see is a massive degrade in the respect men had for women. When at one time any decent man (and they were majority) would treat us like angels from heaven, now, if there is a man left out there with manners, they are afraid to use them for fear of being accused of “sexism” (a ridiculous notion, but I digress).
My husband and I were both raised in a society that thinks moms and wives should work outside the home. It was an adjustment period for both of us as I began to realize… I don’t WANT to work outside the home. I WANT to be a mom, I WANT to be a wife. I want to raise my own children. It’s been a little tough for him finding a job that will support us so that I do not have to work. Had we been born 60 years ago, this would not have been an issue. Thanks to feminism, me being at home is a hardship.
I am a woman, and I have no problem with that. I want to wear dresses (and not the over sexualized stuff available these days. I’m married after all), I want to clean, I want to teach. I am not the same as a man, and I wouldn’t want to be. I wouldn’t want my man to act like a woman, and I think it’s out of balance if he were to do so. We talk about any decisions needed in our family, and I respect him as having the final say so. He, in turn, would not make a decision without considering my happiness. His favorite motto, “If momma ain’t happy, ain’t noone happy.” This has been true of the idea of the American family for decades at least. No one disputed the power of the mother and wife over the home. No place is more important than the place where we produce the future.
Man and woman were always meant to work together, to support each others strengths and weaknesses. The wife’s place in the home in history wasn’t about oppression, it was practicality. Have you ever tried to boil water over fire? I have. It took an hour to make instant mashed potatoes. Cooking was an all day job. Making clothes, mending, cleaning an un-insulated house, watching and teaching the kids… while being pregnant. Some men took this as a cue to treat women inferiorly, but like the feminists of today, they were likely not indicative of the average male. I’ve no question that most man knew exactly who baked their bread. Marriage and men/woman relationships are about working together as a unit. If the couple cannot function as a unit, that is what leads to divorce and broken homes.
Feminism on the other hand, is selfishness. Me, me, what I want, what I need, MY career, MY choices. The attitude has bled all over America. And it’s killing her.
Feminism is a hate group. Awesome post! I always considered feminism sexism but saying its a hate group is just as accurate.
“feminists telling women to respect men as men” That will never happen. Infact, not even the media will will make this statement. All you ever hear is “respect women”. Its a one way street.
Rob, it is what it is and it’s well beyond time that people started to acknowledge the elephant in the room – that modern feminism is an organized hate group; particularly in government and education (they may be haters, but they’re not stupid. They know where to go to do the most damage).
@Rob, I agree. Many “feminists” (aka female supremacists) demand “respect” and scream that men don’t respect them, while being too selfish, bone-headed or both to realize that respect is EARNED. You have to give respect to get it, and they don’t even respect themselves. What self-respecting woman acts so hateful towards others?
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