Where the F*ck are the Feminists?
Industrial porn, men in women's toilets, mass immigration, Influencer Culture, rap misogyny…The issues facing women today are more poisonous than ever. So-called Feminists won't touch them.
If someone had asked me a decade ago whether I was a Feminist, I'd have spat out my builder's brew and laughed with the disdain of an old school pragmatist. Feminism had drifted from breaking glass ceilings to full-on barmy, hairy armpitted misandry. It had little truck with concepts of the traditional family unit and focused on a sort of hate-fueled zealotry which pitted women against men rather than value how fundamentally important the relationship between women and men is.
Many argued this more aggressive form of feminism served to emasculate men and instead forge a simmering resentment. I think that's a reductionist point, but it does beg the argument of who is working for our menfolk? That's a whole other discussion. And it probably shouldn't be Andrew Tate, but instead someone who extols the virtue of family.
But if 90s and 00s feminism was bad, what the hell has happened today?
The 90s were all about campaigns to outlaw old fashioned titillation such as Page 3 and Grid Girls (nobody cared. In fact, the Melinda Messenger and Emma Noble busty blondes made good money, married Prime Minister's sons and have been getting awards for Celebrity Mum of The Year in latter years). Roll the years on two decades and giant online porn sites have industrialised sex trafficking and abuse, normalised extreme fetish involving deeply dehumanising and dangerous sex acts, the Kardashians have told the world that as a woman, being made on a surgical table to look like a collection of hypersexualised body parts has more value than exhibiting any actual talent, and being trussed up like a sex slave in 50 Shades of Grey is empowering.
Women don’t just need men, they can outperform in levels of infidelity and promiscuity and be even more debauched and dangerous. SLOW CLAP (mind the pun).
Forget marriage, go to a sperm bank instead. It’s so dehumanising it’s beyond depressing. It's so against our biological wiring into which our feelings of worth, affirmation and reward are so naturally rooted.
And where are the Feminists? They are campaigning for an