I just finished The 2nd Sex, by Simone De Beauvoir, and a few months ago, Mary Wollstonecraft's, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. The easiest way to sum up the "Blah Blah Blah" of men saying, feminists hate men, is that men hate reading what women writers have written.
Having lived with five women, plus my dad, and now three women, one is my wife, well two, one daughter visits every so often, but without my dad. I became part of the odd man out club. I learned a lot from my four sisters, and mom, and now my wife, and two twenty something daughters. It's weird how women do not like being subservient to men, even men like me.
Until our eldest daughter was five, she always ran and got me a Mt Dew when I asked. Then her mom, gave her a glance (you know what I mean) and she never did it again. She even got her little sister to do it after she turned 3.
I only read the two books noted above because I wanted know the (very few) things I was still missing after being around women for almost 60 years. Well that's not totally true. As our daughters grew into teenagers, I have gotten older and stupid. Or I always was stupid, and they figured it out, and my wife just married me due to pity. No, I was desperate to find out if I never really knew anything about women!
Anyway, after reading the books, I learned things (though some pyschology, and science is outdated) that showed me women have never really been the vessels of subservient programming, or incapable to be their own thing to the extent, "we always thought" (and "we" is mostly men, public propaganda, and religious texts).
For example, women who moved west with their husbands in the mid 1800s, had much more responsibility for running things. They couldn't be the "delicate little flowers" of that many eastern, and especially southern women, "could be" at least made out to be.
There have always been contradictions, but the propoganda, religious texts and stories "powerful" men tell get filtered down to "Blah Blah Blah", "feigned" sexism (men telling white lies, to fit in, about how they treat women / their wives) to horrible misogynist shit. My mother for instance, became a nurse in the early 1940s, and did not marry until she was almost 35.
My Kentucky hillbilly mom planted tobacco as a ten year old, she had great hands for it. She also beat up the bullies that attacked her younger brothers, and hit their school bus driver in the gut when he said she was a liar. She feared no one, even the doctors skittered out of sight when she walked the halls.
I have a feeling she married my dad out of pity too. But hey, we still appreciate it.
Men who can't see women as equal in everything, are merely mobile wax figures of slack jaw stupid. Feminism is whatever women want it to be. Why would any man need to enter an opinion about what it is, or should be? I never needed to hear from men or women about what a man should do, or be like. I just am what I am, mostly. Women should get that kind of respect, and be given that kind of space.
RTC
(Luckily misoRushnazi has exited stage right, hopefully the remainder will soon.)
