{"id":30468,"date":"2015-03-02T02:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T07:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=30468"},"modified":"2015-02-28T10:44:44","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T15:44:44","slug":"thats-when-it-hit-me-feminism-was-created-by-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/03\/02\/thats-when-it-hit-me-feminism-was-created-by-men\/","title":{"rendered":"“That\u2019s when it hit me. Feminism was created by men.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gavin McInnes<\/a> makes the contrarian case that men<\/em> were the driving force behind the feminist movement:<\/p>\n

Men are the original feminists. Female men\u2019s rights activist Karen Straughan talks about this a lot, and points out<\/a> that before women could vote, it was men who wanted to bring back the whipping post to punish guys who hit their wives. A man sees a woman getting abused and thinks \u201cBeat him!\u201d \u2014 whereas a woman would be more likely to want to work it out. I no longer believe the suffragette movement was made up of women who were mad as hell and not going to take it anymore. I now think it was men pushing them from behind while saying, \u201cAren\u2019t you mad as hell? You shouldn\u2019t take this anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

Women aren\u2019t fighters by nature. They aren\u2019t \u201ckick-ass.\u201d They\u2019re more about their immediate surroundings than changing the world. Studies show young male chimps are drawn to toy trucks while young females like dolls<\/a>. It is inherently male to want to control things across the world and run over anything that stands in our way. It is inherently female to want to nest and nurture and make the home a safe place to be. When male chimps write parts for women, they put a truck in her hand and say she\u2019s in the driver\u2019s seat. This is what girl power has always been about.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

You see the same character played by Sarah Silverman in Wreck-It Ralph<\/em>. Women don\u2019t do this in real life. No woman has ever won NASCAR<\/a>. They can barely drive a motorbike<\/a> over a log. Yet we keep telling them they\u2019re kick-ass and sticking them in the driver\u2019s seat. This is because we love looking at fast cars and we love looking at hot chicks. Ford Mustang recently released<\/a> a prank video where some \u201cdumb blonde\u201d pretends she can\u2019t drive but reveals she is actually a stunt driver after blowing everyone\u2019s minds with some intense burnouts. This is presented as a feminist statement that shatters stereotypes, but it\u2019s just men making women do man stuff because they like both.<\/p>\n

On a recent episode of Mob Wives<\/em>, one of the loudmouthed sluts yells, \u201cIt takes balls to admit you\u2019re wrong, and if she doesn\u2019t apologize to me, SHE HAS NO BALLS!\u201d I don\u2019t want women to have balls. I want them to have vaginas. I\u2019m not saying I want them to stay at home fluttering their lashes and handing me a steak while wearing high heels (though I wouldn\u2019t complain if my wife gave that a try). I\u2019m saying being kick-ass only appeals to the nerds who play video games and want the Tomb Raider they\u2019re looking at to also have big tits. It\u2019s not feminist to see a chick do a backflip and blow a monster\u2019s head off. It\u2019s male-ist.<\/p>\n

We tell women they\u2019re men and they should fuck like men. This leads them to march down the street in Slut Walks baring their breasts and demanding they be allowed to do so. (It\u2019s already legal in New York, yet they keep doing this protest with no complaints from any men whatsoever.) They demanded we let them burn their bras so we can see their tits better. They insisted we stop seeing them as baby machines, so we banged them until their ovaries dried up and then kicked them to the curb. We\u2019ve got them so brainwashed, they think \u201cvagina\u201d is a sexist term<\/a> because it excludes women with a penis. We say feminism is empowering, but kick-ass chicks end up 40 and alone with their dog, while you\u2019ll rarely see a happier woman than a young married Catholic chick with three or more kids.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gavin McInnes makes the contrarian case that men were the driving force behind the feminist movement: Men are the original feminists. Female men\u2019s rights activist Karen Straughan talks about this a lot, and points out that before women could vote, it was men who wanted to bring back the whipping post to punish guys who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,13],"tags":[987,122,248,303,43],"class_list":["post-30468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-usa","tag-feminism","tag-movies","tag-realitytv","tag-sexism","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7Vq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30469,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30468\/revisions\/30469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}