Goodthing she never played Mass effect!

[RouxBelle]

(1)I would say it's more like; "A 'true' feminist has to be like a male chauvinist. You can't be a 'true' feminist unless you believe that all men are awful and have no redeeming qualities."

P.S. I think the same thing is true with regards to 'macho' (a.k.a. closet chauvinist) men. When I was working out one time, I was lifting light weights for numerous reps. A guy came by and, assuming that I wanted to look like one of those big, bulky, masculine guys you see in boxing rings and fitness mags, suggested that I should be lifting heavier weights at fewer reps. Otherwise I'd wind up looking like a woman.

"Oh noez! Not like a WUMENZ!!!!1!!1!ONE!"

I explained to him that I was lifting lighter weights because I hadn't worked out in a while and didn't want to injure myself, but I found it pretty damn offensive that he insinuated that a man being athletic in the same way that a woman is athletic is a bad thing.

This happens to men as much as it happens to women. Maybe even more so, because (in America, at least) I'm pretty sure it happens to ALL men at one point or another. (2) "If you're not a beer-drinking, football-playing, large-muscled, ESPN-watching, six-foot-tall-or-more, square-chinned, handy-around-the-house, buzz-cut, never-cries, drives-a-jacked-up-pickup-truck, pulling-down-six-figures-corporate-executive, seven-inch-penis-having-kind-of-guy then not only will no REAL man ever respect you, but no women will ever like you either."

Makes my balls hurt.

It's one of the reasons I prefer Manga to American comics. In Manga, the strong guys are reasonably sized, or are powerful because they have certain knowledge or skills that they have practiced extensively. In American comics, all the strong guys look like Superman (i.e., a giant triangle on two Slim-Jims with a square jaw and short-cropped hair). I don't want to look like Superman! I HATE Superman! <a href=http://www.Superdickery.com>SUPERMAN IS A DICK!

(1) That was going to be my response, that it seems like in their rush for equality they slid too far in the other direction and their new definition of equality is "treat all men like dirt". It makes me wonder if some of them didn't have a bad experience with one man in particular that stained their view and they fled to the safety hyper-feminism to justify it.

(2) It's like the female equivalent that if you're not a size two double d then no man will ever find you attractive. And yeah, Superman's nice and everything but I prefer the tall lanky type...so I guess swimming or track build instead of football.

wow. she clearly is nuts..but most feminist are. Since I am a girl, I must say that yes, I'm all for equal rights, but it's a damn tv show. get over it, put on a bra, put on some make up to make yourself look decent, and make me a damn sammich!

Im like totally in love with you right now!

hahaha! I'm not a huge fan of the feminists

Ahahahah "put on a bra" that literally made me laugh out loud. Cookies for you.

thank you *bows* I think why I have such a problem with feminists..besides them making every man think women are nuts..is that my World Lit Professor (in college) was a HUGE feminist, worse than this chick, and every story we read was about how horrible men are. And every test we basically had to say how horrible men are. For the final I basically said what I said up there but a little nicer because I was so sick of it

 

[Tazz Azreal]

my personel oppinion on that essay/rant is: if feminists would stop having such a fudgin bad temper tantrum 24/7 then us men would not "hate them so much", shes a loony and i love women,but seriously we cant live with em but cant live without em eh?

 

[Sonicdahedgie]

Go back to the first two paragraphs of her post. Note how many times she uses the word "feminist." She tries so hard to make sure you KNOW she's a feminist. It's quite hilarious.

 

[feather240]

To me, women like this are the reason women have trouble getting equal rights. Don't declare that you're for a cause and then make a total fool of yourself if you actually support the cause. She sounds more anti-male than she sounds feminist.

Women really shouldn't make internet rants when they have PMS.

Please tell me that last sentence was sarcastic...

By reading her comments it would appear she hates the gender male, so she's a Feminzai. She doesn't have a problem with the sex, just the gender. Please let her be the exception and not the rule... (Burn the witch?)

 

[VanityGirl]

Or saw your avatar

LOL


OT: Is she for real? I'm all for equal rights and all, but really lady, are you PSYCHO?

 

[superbatranger]

I didn't think it was possible to say the word feminist so many times in an article, but this lady said it....13 times in like 3 paragraphs. o.0

As soon as I saw the word feminist overused like that, I had to pull a facepalm.

 

[HK_01]

That's a parody of a feminist, right?!?

Edit: This scares me. Especially the comments section. How many of these kinds of people are there?

 

[Lolth17]

Oh god. Sometimes I hate the internet for allowing crazy people to express their opinions to an international audience.

She makes me rather ashamed to call myself a feminist. I believe that women should be treated like everyone else, not as victims when they aren't.

That would make me a rapist-lover, I think, according to her article. Ah well.

 

[feycreature]

My issue with a lot of these points is context.

"I love my captain." Kaylee ignores Mal's sniping because she is the brilliant engineer who makes his ship run, and sure he can lock her up if he decides he no longer needs it to do that.

Wash enjoying his wife's body is appropriate. They are married. Also, it's not like he poses some threat, she could break him in half.

The word thing is actually interesting (the greater ratio of words from male characters than female characters) and probably has some significance. The universe Joss has created is not a nice one, it retains some of the problems of the current world. I don't think the imbalance is intentional, but it may well be a response to ingrained ideas about how dialogue among people of both genders works. But back on track.

Mal is a dick to Zoe on occasion. and Kaylee, Inara, the preacher and the doctor whose names escape me right now, Jayne, business associates, acquaintances, old friends, old enemies and total strangers. It's called having flaws. He has insecurity issues which cause him to push boundaries and constantly try to assert his control over situations. No it's not good behaviour, because he's kind of messed up. The only person he isn't a dick to is River, because that would just be low.

His relationship to Inara is messed up because he is messed up. Not as bad as Jayne, perhaps, definitely not as bad as River, but messed up nonetheless.

Whereas Kaylee ignores Mal because she has the knowledge and knowledge is power. Inara can extend compassion because she is stable within herself. Zoe enjoys her strength while allowing for both softer emotion (which puts her ahead of Mal in the maturity stakes) and for the feelings of her husband. He doesn't run her life, but she cares about him and shares the power in the relationship rather than bulldozing over him. River...well River is a very well-trained victim. She isn't empowered, she's barely even aware of her surroundings. She can kick butt, but it isn't personal strength coming through. And that's ok. That's her character. I'm happy with gleefully independent Kaylee, emotionally centered Inara and powerful, mature Zoe. And yeah, they're all flawed human beings with weaknesses, but their strengths are pretty notable.

 

[brunothepig]

I got up to where she talks about the "prostitutes."
Calling the clients rapists, despite the fact the women choose to enter a guild to become "prostitutes," they choose which men will "rape" them. And that the first scene shows the woman also satisfied, and quite happy.
All of which she mentions. No. It's stupid.

 

[Woodsey]

The pro-capitalist one is just weird though.

To be fair, many capitalists are older people who are rich. Older people who are rich are more likely to be racist or homophobic, due to being raised in a time where that was normal.

Somehow I don't think she thought that far into it (although you make an interesting point). She is, after all, a moron.