Monday, August 15, 2011

Feminism, she said, is a joke

Susannah Breslin:
Feminism claims to be about empowerment. In fact, over the years, it has increasingly devoted itself to promoting the image of women as victims. Victims of men. Victims of pop culture. Victims of sexism. Victims of discrimination. Victims of other women....

Feminism was always based on the idea that women have it harder than men. These days, people just aren’t buying it. The stock market has gone haywire, unemployment is endemic, and some women are beginning to see that feminism’s segregationist, mollycoddling politics have done more harm than good.

Can’t get a job? Try telling your prospective employer that it’s because you’re a woman. That employer will find someone with the can-do attitude you lack. Don’t like how women are represented in pop culture? The internet has made it possible for you to make your own media. Still trying to figure out if you’re a “feminist” or not? Stop trying.

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