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Oct. 15, 2013 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin
13:25
What is feminism？
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When you're a girl and you say, not that I'm a feminist or anything.
Alright, genius, I'll stop you there.
Why do you think they say that?
It's because feminists are generally massively unpleasant people to be around.
No one wants to be a massively unpleasant person to be around, and for some reason, feminists can't seem to see how unpopular they are.
And so they get in everyone's shit and they're like, blah, blah, blah, you must do this my way, you must do this this way, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And everyone's like, look, fuck off.
And that's why women, even women, say, I'm not a feminist, but I need to say something that objectively needs to be said.
Let's say the rest of this really well thought out.
I want to say treaties, but I don't want to confuse you.
It makes you sound stupid.
I'd like to thank the fat girl on the right for proving my point.
Really, if you're any gender and you say that you're not a feminist, it just makes you sound uneducated.
The word you're looking for is indoctrinated, and that's right, Ginger Kid, hang your head.
And here's why.
Because feminism, the definition of it, is just believing that women are human beings.
No, it isn't.
Dictionary.com defines it as the doctrine advocating social, political, and all of the rights of women equal to those of men.
What's missing from that?
Children, obviously.
Children do not get the right to involve themselves in politics.
They do not get the right to dictate their own social lives, at least until a later age, and yet they are still considered human.
This means you're wrong.
What we are talking about really is social equality.
And if you're looking for social equality for all genders, then what you want is a word called egalitarianism.
Words have meanings, genius.
And if you don't think that a woman is a human being, then...
You'd say, maybe, that they were taxonomically misinformed and that they should have a good day?
How do I say go kill yourself nicely?
Page 57, paragraph 6, word 8 of mine camp.
I've never heard a non-feminist say that to anyone.
It's only feminists who say, if you don't agree, kill yourself.
This is why people don't want to be associated with feminism.
Alright, Ginger Kid, pull this back from the brink of madness.
It's true.
Is it?
I mean, like, that's something that I've sort of always thought of as obvious.
Yes, yes, everyone thinks it's obvious that women are human beings.
Get to your point.
And, like, I don't talk about me being a feminist.
I'll try to contain my surprise.
And look at this picture.
Look at the way she's looking at him.
Look at the fear in his eyes.
My God, boy, I really, really hope you have memorized your lines right.
I really fucking do.
Because she's watching.
She's waiting for you to say the wrong thing.
Because I don't feel like if I felt like if I was going around saying, I'm a feminist, I'm a feminist, that's almost a form of misogyny.
I don't even know what to say to that.
A man promoting women's issues is now misogyny.
I'm baffled by you.
Do you know what Stockholm Syndrome is?
Because it's trying to be like, look at me, ladies.
I think you should be treated equally.
Like, well, you don't even need to mention it.
It's just common sense.
Right.
One of our old English professors said that saying you don't need to be a woman to be a feminist and that you can be a male feminist.
And then she goes, right, Ben.
And I was like, right.
I was like, I was surprised, but I was flattered.
We don't even need to talk about it.
Why are we making a video?
Oh, I think I know.
Let's have a look at this picture.
That's right, Ginger Kid.
Hang your head.
You can smile though because you've got your lines right.
You're not going to get chewed out this time.
And look at her.
She's winning.
She's happy as anything.
You are right where you're supposed to be.
That's a good point.
Okay, so let's go over feminism.
Feminism comes in three waves, you know, in the educational sense.
As opposed to the literal sense of women washing up on a shore.
The first wave is like in the late 1800s, early 1900s with women's suffrage.
This happened primarily in like the UK and the US, other developed countries where women wanted to gain the right to vote and the right to own property.
And that was their main focus, was getting those rights.
As painful as that was to listen to as an explanation of anything, women have always had the right to own property, at least in Anglosphere societies.
Second wave feminism is probably the most like stereotypical feminist that you think of with like burning bras going into the workforce wanting equal rights, the equal rights to women.
No, that's from World War II.
Third wave feminism is what's happening right now and it's really hard to pay down.
I'm pretty sure I know why.
It's because all of the actual legitimate objectives of feminism have been achieved.
Everything you listed there has been achieved.
So what is left?
Because I think partially because we don't have the knowledge of looking in the past like we do with first wave and second wave.
Do you mean hindsight?
So third wave feminism focuses more on women of color and how the idea of femininity is not just in a small little cube, but it is everything.
It is a big circle of everything.
So it's not just focused on white upper class women, which is what first wave and second wave really was about.
Why would you subscribe to an ideology that comes from roots that you acknowledge to be classist and racist?
The third Reich was bad, but the Fourth Reich is going to be much better.
We can't actually form an adequate description of what the Fourth Reich is going to be like, so we'll just make this shit up as we go along.
So it's more encompassing of all women, all types of women, and all types of femininity.
And it's hard to define because it's still going on right now.
Are you deluded or just massively brainwashed?
Like I said earlier, a movement that emphasizes one sex over another is not calling for equality.
You are not talking about men there.
You are not even slightly concerned with men.
Everything you just said was about women.
Every single goddamn thing.
So when you say, well, we're actually just talking about equality for everyone.
No, you're fucking not.
You're only talking about women.
And when one group focused on at the expense of all others, what's that called?
I can't trust you to come to the right answer on your own.
It's called privilege.
All right.
It's called privilege.
So would you consider yourself to be a third-wave feminist?
I don't know.
I'm just a feminist.
A term so vague, it's got three definitions that you're not even sure of.
You don't know.
You're just someone who's looking to enhance the privilege of women over everyone else in society.
That's it.
That's all you are.
You're just someone who's out to improve the lives of women.
And what a surprise.
You are a woman.
It's almost like you are using this entirely for your own self-interest.
Because I believe that women can be whatever they want.
Self-obsessed, narcissistic, fascist powermongers.
Why would anyone want to be that?
I can only assume that you are that because you aren't aware that that's how you are.
I believe you don't have to shave your legs, but if you do, fine.
The one thing holding us back from true equality.
If you want to wear a dress like I am today, cool.
If you want to wear jeans, cool.
If you want to look like a guy, cool.
Yeah, fucking groovy.
So fucking what?
I don't care.
Be whatever you want to be.
Judge not lest ye be judged?
Is that what you're trying to say?
It's sort of like a reawakening of sexuality, a reclaiming, I guess.
And that's another big thing about third-wave feminism is that it's like a sexual, like you said, reawakening and claiming sex as power and whatever, and that it's okay to be a sexual being.
I haven't paused it on this frame to get a funny shot of her seductive face.
I've done it to get a funny shot of his look of abject terror at her unleashing her sexuality anywhere near him.
So stop saying that you're not a feminist.
You're all my furrow.
If you believe that you're a human being and that you have the right to be whatever you want to be, then you're a feminist.
No, we've already covered this.
The term is egalitarianist.
What you don't understand is that no amount of doublethink will change that.
You know, you can say everyone's a feminist because everyone believes in equal rights, but that will still not make them feminists.
Do you understand?
You are pushing the supremacy of one gender over another by your own admission in this video from a racist, classist, quite clearly divisionist ideology.
And you want people who are not part of your club to die.
I would fight you on a battlefield if you took the field.
I would be actively in arms against you if it came to civil war.
I know it seems like at this point there shouldn't be any non-feminists left.
People probably don't understand what it really means.
Yes, two of them in this fucking video because you're unable to actually define what you are talking about.
What kind of ball collective is this?
Everyone must think our way because how could you think any other way?
What way do you think?
Well, we can't exactly tell you, but you need to think our way.
You're fucking mad.
There are legitimately people out there who are like, no, feminism is wrong, then they either don't know what they're talking about or wow.
We've established that no one knows what they're actually talking about when they're talking about feminism.
We have a stop.
You have established that in this video by two self-confessed, died-in-the-wool, die-hard feminists who can't even define their own movement.
Fucking wow indeed.
I'm wow.
I am wow that you can actually hold an opinion on something that you don't even know what it is.
But that's right.
Look to her for some confirmation.
Does it make her happy?
Looks like it does.
Who's a good boy?
They were living in the past.
And feminism is still important today because women don't have equal rights as men.
By all of the standards you have set out in this video, they absolutely do, you fucking mentalist.
Also, what is with the puppy dog eyes?
They don't have the same thing as men.
It's like a part of your brain turns off when you are reciting this clap trap feminist nonsense at me.
I mean, there's the whole glass ceiling thing.
There's the whole we don't get paid as much as men for doing the same amount of work and the same quality of work.
Utterly untrue.
Utterly, factually in fucking correct.
Honestly, do you think there are employers out there who are like, right, well, we're going to put the job up for 50k, and then they've got loads of interviewees and they're interviewing them going, right, okay, well, we want to hire you, but we're going to reduce the wage to 40k because of your vagina.
The American government conducted a study on this, and they determined that women simply go into professions that pay less on average.
Therefore, I mean, don't wrong, they're probably under a lot less stress.
I think this is a wise move.
But women for the same work in the same job get paid exactly the fucking same.
When women like slut shame each other, that's terrible.
No, like I showed in, coincidentally, in my last video, this is exactly the right and natural thing to do in a social setting when someone is abusing their power.
It has always happened and it will always happen.
And the majority of fenders will always be women.
Okay?
We need to be joined together because, you know, we're on the same team.
We're all in the same borg collective.
Okay?
Men do it too, but so stop with the slut shaming.
Okay?
You shouldn't care about what some other woman wears or how she dresses or how she dances or acts or what she does at the VAs.
Okay?
If she wants to be sexy and shake her booty, that's fine.
You go, Miley.
Facebook.com/slash all you need to do is think.
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