I'm 32% Feminist?

You Are 32% Feminist

No one would consider you a feminist. You believe women should hold on to traditional gender roles. Well, that's not the world we're living in anymore. Time to wake up to the 21st century!

Are You a Feminist?

I don't think so!!! I would say I'm a 0% Feminist...though mildly amusing, the quiz, which I found via Vox Popoli, the wording of the questions are all "either or" propositions that are badly worded.

Here's the 10 questions along with the reasons for why I voted the way I did to arrive at the 30% rating...

1. Women should be economically and socially independent. They shouldn't rely on men to take care of them.
   
   Strongly Disagree
   
   This gets to the very heart of the matter in which feminism has corrupted society and sparked the "gender war" we all endure. Under the old "oppression" of Patriarchy, men and women COMPLEMENTED each other by being dependent on each other when they married and created a family. Women did rely on men to take care of them financially, Men relied on women to take care of them by taking care of everything else like housekeeping and children rearing so he could focus on being the best breadwinner he could be.
   
   Women being economically and socially independent is the idea that women don't need men for anything...this is unnatural, and when one takes a step back and looks at it from an objective point of view, every single mammalian species that exists or has existed in this world consists of complementary genders that work together to produce, protect and raise the successive generations. Feminism seeks to push this idea that the human species is the exception to the rule that governs all other mammalian species on earth.
   
   And my answer doesn't preclude women from having a career either...I'm only concerned with the general attitude that our feminist corrupted culture has imbued Women with this idea that they don't need men. Men and Women need each other - that is the natural way of things. Going against this is unnatural.
   
   
   
   
2. There is no such thing as a "man's job." It is wrong for men to be given preference for any job position, even if women traditionally aren't in that field.
   
   Strongly Disagree
   
   
   Feminists can get back to me on this question when women are subject to the draft, when they work in equal proportion to the hazardous jobs that men do, when they suffer the same casualty rate in those hazardous occupations, and when they no longer benefit from laws that give them maternity leave at the expense of the employer....because as an employer, and I had to choose between hiring a pregnant woman or a man, why should I be penalized for preferring the employee that is going to show up for work and produce versus the one that is going to take up to 3 months off, for which I have to cover all the expenses of keeping her job for her while she is not producing anything during that duration in return?
   
   
3. Men and women should be held to the same sexual standards. If men can sleep around without judgment, women should be able to as well.
   
   Disagree
   
   
   I believe men and women should be held to the same standards of judgment for their behavior, I really disagree with the wording of this particular question, which is why I chose Disagree rather than Strongly Disagree.
   
   If men can...women should be able to as well.
   
   The biological fact of the matter is this: no amount of feminist propaganda changes the basic facts that when men are looking for a spouse to create children with, they want to be assured that the children produced are genetically HIS. When a women is promiscuous, men will not value her for her potential to be the mother to his children, because her past behavior indicates that children produced from their marriage may in fact put the issues of paternity into at the very least a questionable category. Women have no such worries, as they gestate and birth the child. No matter how slutty she is, she knows the children are hers. So once again, we have another instance of feminism getting enraged at the natural order of life in the human species.
   
   
4. Women should take an equal role in dating. Women should ask out people they are interested in and take their turn in paying.
   
   Agree
   
   The only reason I did not put Strongly Agree is because I think one of the areas in which feminists have really messed up women is this idea that women need to act like men in the dating game...although women should certainly pay their fair share if they want to demonstrate to the men they are dating that they are more interested in his company than his wallet.
   
   It is a masculine manner to be straightforward and pursue a woman that interests him, and this is what feminists seek to emulate when they tell women they should ask people out they are interested in...but any women in the "age of oppression" had no such worries. Proper ladies knew exactly how to use her femininity to encourage a man she was interested in to ask her out. It's the same mating ritual dance one can see numerous examples of in nature...one gender seeks to attract the attention of the other they are interested in. For humans, it is the female that tries to attract and the male that pursues. Feminists are trying to flip this natural order on it's head and make women the overt pursuers rather than to use their innate feminine traits to attract a man.
   
   
   
5. Women should accept their bodies as they are. Women should not have to conform to wacky beauty ideals.
   
   Bah. This is another one of those whacko ideas feminists have that once again proves Rush Limbaugh's famous assertion that feminism is just about ugly women who are angry that they do not enjoy the perks beautiful women enjoy in society.
   
   The other point to consider is this: wacky beauty ideals pushed by society are not caused by "men" or the so-called "Patriarchy." Where is it exactly that one can look to find the "wacky" beauty ideals? Women's magazines written by feminist women for women readers and modeling fashion shows designed and produced by women or gay men to sell clothes to women. Couple this with the celebrity culture for which most women are obsessed with so that they can live vicariously through the lives of people who have the beauty they wish they themselves had, and we get the so-called "unrealistic beauty ideals that oppress women."
   
   This feminist notion that women should just "accept themselves" is just another way for women to claim victim-hood for their own behavior. Eat right and exercise and you won't be an obese slob no sane man wants to touch with a 10 foot pole. Is it really unrealistic to expect that women AND men should work at keeping themselves in shape and healthy? Societal pressure to do this is a good thing, not "oppressive" as feminists claim.
   
   
6. A woman should be able to marry and have kids with anyone she wants - including another woman.
   
   Strongly Disagree
   
   Marriage is the model of Patriarchy designed to create families with Parental roles that are complementary to raise healthy, well-balanced children. Marriage by definition is the union between a man and a woman. A woman "marrying" another woman is an oxymoron. Of course, this is exactly why feminists support same sex "marriage." Because they are morons.
   
   
7. Women should have the right to choose any path in life - from being a stay at home mom to a Fortune 500 CEO.
   
   Strongly Agree
   
   This is probably the one answer that probably weighs substantially in giving me a 32% rating. Women AND Men should have the right to choose any path in life. Why is this a problem? This was never a problem before either. There were no laws that said women couldn't be a Fortune 500 CEO...they just by and large chose not to because of the social pressure and expectations that women should get married and raise a family.
   
   
   
8. Women should be encouraged to pursue education as much as men are.
   
   Strongly Disagree
   
   Women should have the right to pursue education as much as they want, but the societal pressure that now dictates that women SHOULD pursue education as much as men has now lead to the chaos we now live in, and is a major factor in why all of the Western countries that have embraced feminism as the cultural and legal paradigm all now have declining birth rates. Instead of having multiple children when women are in their prime fertile years, they are in school working on a degree than jumping into their careers upon graduation. By the time they feel "ready" to have kids, they can at most have two or three kids before they are no longer fertile, and it is more likely that they will only have one, and that child will often be raised by strangers on minimum wage at daycare while career woman goes back to work to get the most out of her "education." From a Demographic perspective, the feminist zeitgeist of encouraging women to work on education and careers while in their prime reproductive years is cultural suicide.
   
   
9. Women should have legal, easy access to all types of birth control - including the morning after pill
   
   Disagree
   
   Well I'm pro-life, as I just explained in the previous post, so there's no further explanation as to why I disagree with this supposition. The only reason why I only chose Disagree rather than Strongly Disagree is that I see a very important distinction between birth control and the morning-after abortion pill.
   
   
   
10. You would support a woman for president (if you agreed with her politics).
    
    I most certainly would...but I don't see any women Libertarian candidates running for President, so I'm certainly not supporting any women in this next election.
    

All in all, this is yet another one of those stupid, vapid quizzes that are ubiquitous in women's magazines and women websites...but it is certainly revealing when one looks at the questions to see just how intellectually shallow and unnatural the feminist mindset really is.

Ruminating on the Topic of Abortion

I was ambivalent about the issue of legalized abortion for a long, long time. I've always been conflicted between the right to life argument and a person's right to control their own body. But after a lot of thought on this topic, I think I've finally decided I am pretty much a hard core, pro-lifer...but I'm certainly not some Fundamentalist either (i.e. I would never condone abortion clinic bombings or killing abortion doctors).

It is my view that abortion should be an issue resolved by the States and not by Supreme Court Fiat...and that the right thing for all 50 States to do would be to outlaw abortions with the exceptions for medical cases of life endangerment, or proven rape/incest cases.

I believe abortion is murder, and it is a barbaric act for which their is no acceptable excuse for it other than medical endangerment or rape/incest.

The feminist/pro-choice people no doubt find my position to be radical and an attempt to "take away a women's control over her own body."

I reject this line of reasoning on several grounds:

Women always have and always will have the choice to control their bodies.

They can decide who they have sex with.

They can decide which of the multiple forms of birth control they can use to prevent pregnancy in the first place.

Yes, I'm quite familiar with the ole, "What about those that were using birth control, but the control failed?"

I think as far as that goes, than a woman shouldn't be having sex with a man unless she is already prepared to deal with the potential consequences; i.e. if you don't know this guy well, or you know he's gonna skip town if you get pregnant, or he's an abusive drug addict or alcoholic, than you shouldn't be doing him in the first place, birth control or not. But hey, if you want to, go ahead, I'm not gonna try to get laws to stop you...but just be prepared to deal with the potential consequences for your choices.

If abortion were illegal across the board, most women would be a lot more careful and a lot more selective about who, where and when they sleep with, because they know the potential consequences would change their lives forever. That is how it used to be when abortion was largely illegal.

And I also reject the line of reasoning about back alley coat hanger abortions. Rape, murder and robbery happen all the time despite being illegal. The fact that they are happening is not a persuasive argument to legalize them either.

The entire argument of the feminists as far as I can tell really boils down to this: the feminist goal is to enable women to engage in any kind of sexual behavior they want to and not have to face the consequences for their behavior.

No-Fault divorce is the feminist aim to give women carte blanc to commit adultery and break their marriage contract without penalty.

Abortion is the feminist solution to give women the right to kill their baby rather than deal with issues of personal responsibility for their own choices and behavior.

In short, my view is that Feminism's primary goal is to remove any and all constraints on how a woman wants to act sexually.

But to be clear: As a Libertarian, I don't want to control women's sexuality by force of law at all.

But neither do I want to have laws as they are now that provide the means to remove, shield or protect people from experiencing the negative consequences for their own bad choices.

MRA in Your Personal Life

I am of the opinion that being an MRA carries a responsibility to it that requires far more than logging on to the internet and raging on your blog about the unfairness, inequality and stupidity of feminists and their useful idiot manginas. Don't get me wrong, the proliferation of MRA blogs is vital in raising awareness, because it seems to be the only venue at this time in which MRA ideas can be discussed and disseminated to a wide audience, as almost all other mediums of communication have been corrupted by feminist groupthink and PC conventions. I myself lived a life of ignorance and just kind of went along with the general theme of feminism's ubiquity in the mainstream Western consciousness until I discovered MRA blogs.

What I'm trying to say is that Blogging about MRA, and reading other blogs daily (as I do,) is important, but it is ONLY the first step.

The next, more important one is this: each one of us that have attained awareness to just how corrupted society has become with the advent of feminist ideoloogy and it's pernicious influence on the relationship between the sexes, the justice system, the family courts and society's general attitudes and acceptance of misandry have a responsibility: we all have a personal duty to be ambassadors of men's rights in our real world lives.

This responsibility is one that really does not require much...but if we are ever going to take MRA beyond existing as a minority movement occupying a small niche in the blogosphere, it's gonna take what every grass roots movement needs to succeed: the successful transmission by word of mouth.

Because feminism has infested and corrupted just about every level of Western society, it is indeed a monumental task for us to take on...but as the old saying goes, every long journey begins with the first few steps.

But the most important thing to remember is this: no matter how hopeless it seems, we MRA have the ultimate weapon on our sides in combating the rising tide of feminist thought...the truth.

Truth is our ultimate weapon, and we need to wield it wherever and whenever it is prudent to do so. This means we need to speak up when we can to help raise awareness of the ignorant and to counter feminist myths that are repeated as facts, and to identify and counter the folly of misandry whenever we encounter it in the real world. This, I believe, is far more important than blogging.

We MRA need to be especially mindful when misandry and feminist thought surfaces in the words and actions of people closest to you; because these are the people that you will influence the most, ESPECIALLY if you are not overt, aggressive or confrontational about it. In fact, I believe you will be far more effective by applying humor and teasing when dealing with the subtle misandry of people you are close to.

With that in mind, it is the following scenarios for which we MRA need to be on the look out for as opportunities to strike a blow against feminist ideology wherever and whenever possible.

* Whenever you hear women in your life reflecting the general misandry of our culture -- you should speak up and correct those erroneous assumptions.

I was at a party a few weeks ago, and a few of the women in my peer group had gathered in a corner of the room to talk, and I overheard one of the ladies, who was my good friend's live-in girlfriend and mother to their daughter say "Oh David can babysit Lisa (there daughter) so we can go shopping." (Not their real names, of course).

I interjected politely that since he was Lisa's Dad, he wouldn't be babysitting, he would simply be raising his own daughter. All of the women gave me curious looks and a little uncomfortable giggles, but she did acknowledge that I was right. The point is I planted the seed of doubt in the common feminist attitude in all of these ladies minds...the next time they hear another woman refer to her children's father as a "babysitter" perhaps my point will stick in their mind.

* Whenever you are watching TV with family and/or friend's, and the typical misandrist theme manifests itself, say something, no matter how subtle or small.

This one especially applies to the common Hollywood fantasy of a single women defeating a larger, stronger man (or worse, yet a group of men) in hand to hand combat. I'll always say something like "Oh yeah...that was REALISTIC" while rolling my eyes.

If the typical "Dad is a buffoon, mom is superwomen to the rescue" theme appears, I found the best counter is "Good thing MY/Your Dad is not that dumb or incompetent, he would have handled that with no problem!"

Such subtle messages can be an effective counter that can possibly cause at least a little cognitive dissonance in the minds of women who generally think in the misandrist terms society has indoctrinated them too.

* Be aware of how women manipulate men, than DO NOT ALLOW THEM TO DO IT UNCHALLENGED. Especially when it is sisters, friend's, girlfriends or spouses. who use this tactic.

I know plenty of women that will often make off-hand remarks of how they are strong, independent and don't need men to do things...until a spider or centipede appears; and than they are screaming and running and asking the nearest male to take care of the nasty critter. That's the best time to playfully remind them as you are killing the bug "I thought you don't need a man to take care of you?"

Same goes for women who act helpless to get men to do some particularly dirty or heavy task. If a female family member or a female friend who I do like tries this tact to convince me to do such things, I'll often do them (if I genuinely like/love her) - but I will call them on their tactics first. I'll say something like "No need to act like a damsel in distress, just ask me straight!"

Unpleasant tasks that females don't want to do also represent the perfect opportunity to remind them of any of their misandrist statements they've made in the past. For instance, one of the most over-used phrases I hear from women in my life is some variation of the "There's too much testosterone in this room," comment. So when the opportunity arises, use their own comments against them.... "Yeah, alright, I guess there wasn't not enough testosterone in the room to take care of this until I got here."

* Whenever you do a favor or give a gift for a woman in your life, and she acts like she was entitled to it, immediately call her on it.

An exaggerated "YOUR WELCOME YOUR HIGHNESS" while bowing deeply to them gets that point across fairly well.

* Whenever you have women in your life complain, demean or degrade the men in their life, turn the tables on them.

It seems like getting together and grumbling about the men in their lives is one of American Women's favorite past times, and even the nicest, smartest, happiest and non-naggy/bitchy women I know of will indulge in it if they are amongst a group of women who are also doing it.

If I hear a relative or friend say something like "He's such a dummy" I'll instantly pipe up "Well who's the dummy that married/moved in with/had kids with him?"

In summary, feminism and misandry have infested and corrupted society on just about every level, and even women in our lives that we love will in fact reflect this frequently with little comments or actions on occasion. By not letting any opportunity go unchallenged, while not being off-putting and aggressive to the women that otherwise do respect and value your opinions, you can at the very least raise awareness in women who otherwise wouldn't give their thoughtless misandry and feminist-influenced attitudes a second thought.