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May 13, 2016 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin

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What Does Feminism Mean？

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	Have you ever noticed that feminism didn't do nothing?
	Whenever a feminist is talking about feminism, they will never tell you about the batshit crazy things feminism is advocating for.
	It won't tell you about the batshit crazy things the early feminists did, and it certainly won't tell you that feminism considers you to be a racist and a sexist, probably a homophobe, and certainly a transphobe.
	You're also Islamophobic, just in case you didn't know.
	I mean, look at this.
	Feminism is the advocacy of the rights of women on the basis of equality of the sexes.
	Can anyone name a right that men have that women don't?
	Because if you can't, what you're saying with that definition is that feminism is something that is now consigned to history, at least in the West.
	There is no further use for it because it has achieved its goals.
	The aim is to achieve political, economic, cultural, personal, and social rights for all women.
	Jesus, what a clusterfuck.
	And it's just presented as if this makes sense.
	Let's go through this slowly and just find out exactly what the fuck she's trying to say.
	The aim is to achieve political, economic, cultural, personal, and social rights for all women.
	You can tell that she's just spouted this list without really thinking it through.
	Because it's a list of things that just sound good.
	Given how all Western democracies have universal suffrage and laws to ensure non-discrimination of pay in the workplace, we can check off political and economic rights before we do anything else.
	Now, the UN defines economic, social and cultural rights as the rights to adequate food, adequate housing, to education and to health, to social security, and to take part in cultural life, to water and sanitation and to work.
	Now, I actually have an issue with the take part in cultural life bit, because that's, well, not only nebulous, but I'll demonstrate why that's a problem later.
	But other than the cultural aspect, the economic and social aspects of this, all Western feminists enjoy.
	There is nothing to fight for.
	They have all of these things.
	So we can check off social rights because women have them too.
	And I assume when she says personal rights, she means individual rights.
	Which again, we can check off.
	That is, when feminists aren't busy actively campaigning against them.
	I was going to talk about women in power, the lessons of the 20th century, because I think there's a lot of triumphalist talk that masks the real historic situation.
	And apparently people have decided that because I don't think that post-operative transgender men, i.e. M2F transgender people, are women, I'm not to be allowed to talk.
	I'm not saying that people should not be allowed to go through that procedure.
	What I'm saying is it doesn't make them a woman.
	It happens to be an opinion.
	It's not a prohibition.
	Carry on, if that's what you think it is you want to do.
	I've been accused of inciting violence against transsexual people.
	That's absolute nonsense.
	I know, they weren't real feminists.
	Real feminists would never do that.
	course they wouldn't.
	So individual rights are a good thing unless you hold the wrong opinion, in which case fuck your individual rights, at least according to feminists.
	Now I know what you're thinking, Miss Privileged Western feminists.
	Your knees are jerking as hard as they can and you just want to scream, but they're not real feminists.
	And I know.
	I know that's your opinion of them.
	And by the end of this video, that will be their opinion of you.
	Because now we're going to discuss cultural rights and your defense of them.
	Cultural rights is a rights movement that has provoked attention to protect the rights of groups of people or their culture in a similar fashion to the manner in which the human rights movement has brought attention to the needs of individuals throughout the world.
	Oh.
	So cultural rights are something that does not exist because we do not have group rights in the West.
	We have universal individual rights.
	That's it.
	So if feminists want to campaign for cultural rights, go ahead, but you're in the wrong.
	And what you're arguing for is directly in contention with your individual rights, you fucking idiots.
	In fact, I'll let these people make the case against cultural rights.
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	Do you see this girl's face, Miss Prissy Privileged Western feminist?
	Do you see her face?
	She's getting her clit hacked off with a fucking razor blade because it's part of her culture.
	You arguing for cultural rights is you defending this.
	It's you preventing people from interfering with this because otherwise they would be violating their cultural rights.
	Which is why cultural rights don't exist and cannot exist and if they did it would be monstrous.
	You fucking self-centered twat.
	So I'm just going to go ahead and say it's a hard no on cultural rights.
	Much to the chagrin of Western feminists but I'm really sorry.
	I don't think the rights to bodily autonomy of third world women should be violated just because that is what they have always done.
	I know I'm a bigot that way.
	Now that we've gone through this with a fine-tooth comb and we can see exactly where our 1950s housewife feminist has gone wrong, we can take out her desire for cultural rights and see that in fact she has all of the rights that she'll ever need.
	In fact, the most powerful social force against other people's rights at the moment is feminism.
	The aim is to achieve political, economic, cultural, personal and social rights for all women, equal to men.
	That's transphobic.
	The issue of rights for women arose during the French and American revolutions in the late 18th century.
	In Britain it was not until the emergence of the suffragette movement in the late 19th century that there was significant political change.
	Using terrorism, but you leave that out because that would make you look bad, wouldn't it?
	A second wave of feminism arose in the 1960s.
	Yes, led by psychotic man-haters like Valerie Solanis, the author of the scum manifesto, the Society for Cutting Up Men, in which she advocated for the overthrow of the government, the elimination of all men, and some sort of worldwide feminist communist utopia, and the attempted assassin of Andy Warhol because he photographed depravity and called it truth.
	But I know, she's not a real feminist.
	Now feminism movements have campaigned and continued to campaign for women to have the right to vote, to hold public office, to earn fair wages or equal pay, to own property, to receive education, to enter contracts on their own merit, to have equal rights within marriage, and to have appropriate maternity even childcare.
	Alright then, you're done.
	I mean, okay, the one issue that's left is maternity leave in the United States, because that's the only Western country that doesn't have it.
	But weirdly, you're the first feminist I've ever heard mention maternity leave in the United States.
	And I think that's probably because most of them aren't interested in becoming mothers.
	Feminists also work to promote bodily autonomy and integrity.
	Except for when they're actively campaigning against it, like in your video.
	And you know, I do hear a lot of feminists saying, oh, well, feminism's campaigning for bodily integrity, but I don't ever see it.
	I see plenty of hashtags such as listen to women, believe women, give your money to women, but I don't ever see end FGM in Somalia or something like that.
	Why not?
	Why don't I see millions of feminists crying out about something that has happened to 90% of Somali women?
	And to protect women and girls from rape, sexual harassment and domestic violence.
	You know, issues that affect both genders, but we only care about the women.
	Whilst feminist advocacy has focused mainly on the rights of women, feminism is a concept, also argues for men's liberation to be considered as an aim.
	Then why don't you do it?
	I mean, you literally just had the perfect opportunity to say, feminists are campaigning against rape, sexual assault and domestic violence.
	Full stop.
	But you didn't.
	You had to make it about women.
	Because, honestly, you sound like a bunch of gender supremacists.
	You literally could have just done it, but instead you didn't.
	You went for only for women.
	And then you were like, yeah, but I mean, feminism cares about men too.
	No, it doesn't look like it does.
	And it's so subconscious that you can't even see why it doesn't look like it does.
	On the basis that men too are harmed by traditional gender roles.
	Men are also harmed by rape, sexual assault and domestic violence.
	But you don't care about that.
	Why don't you care about that?
	Don't you worry about male gender roles.
	It's not something you have to go through.
	And it's not something men are complaining about.
	That is something that feminists are complaining about.
	Feminists are the ones campaigning against gender roles.
	For fuck's sake.
	You think you're doing good for other people, but in fact, this is all about you.
	It is so cringe-inducing to watch a white Western feminist, someone who has clearly not faced any significant hardship in her entire fucking life, turn around and tell men that they have a problem with gender roles because she is a feminist and is an anti-gender activist.
	It's just unbelievable how you narcissists can't see that saying you're for equal rights and then trying to suppress someone else's rights doesn't make you for equal rights.
	It makes you a supremacist.
	That is what supremacists are.
	That's what they want to do, you fucking idiots.
	And then you're just complete lack of self-awareness, just like, you know, oh, women are oppressed, women, this, women, that, and that's why we need feminism.
	It's just like, fuck off.
	Fuck off.
	Successes in feminist history include access to contraceptives and abortion, the right to enter into contracts and to own property.
	Although women in many parts of the world have seen their lives improve greatly in the last 200 years, there's still much to be done and new issues are often arising.
	Oh yeah, and don't forget that feminism is more than happy to take credit for other people's accomplishments.
	Oh, women's lives have improved greatly in 200 years, have they?
	Oh, that must be feminism.
	That must be feminism that did that.
	It's not technological advancements.
	It's not progress.
	It's not the fact that every domestic appliance was invented by a man.
	It's nothing like that.
	Women's lives have improved because of feminism.
	Fucking, are you serious?
	Oh, women have got the right to own property.
	Women have always had the right to own property, you fucking idiots.
	For example, in colonial America, we know of at least 25 different papers and presses owned and operated by women.
	The very first printing press in the United States was owned by a woman.
	You have been lied to.
	You are now lying to other people.
	You haven't fact-checked this.
	You haven't looked.
	You could have just gone on Google like I did and gone women and property and started reading some of the books you will get on Google about it.
	You could do that, but you didn't.
	You believed other liars and listened to their lies, internalize their lies, and now you are parroting their lies and it makes you look like a liar.
	Women in the West are not oppressed.
	Feminists in the West start talking about things like cultural rights, group rights, cultural relativism, and then women in the third world who might actually need feminism to protect them or to at least give a voice to people who want rights.
	But no.
	Feminists in the West will now call you a racist or an Islamophobe or an oppressor or an imperialist or something like that if you try to say, look, we need to stop this.
	You can make all the shiny propaganda videos you want.
	And you can say, oh, this is how great feminism is.
	But the reality of what feminism does will always undermine feminism.
	You can't paint over the cracks.
	You can't pretend like there aren't deep flaws with the modern intersectional feminist movement.
	We are seeing it.
	For every one of these crappy propaganda videos you guys put out, you create 10 new anti-feminist channels that it's just some guy who's seen it and gone, this is all bullshit.
	In fact, I'm going to go and tell her why this is bullshit.
	In fact, I'm going to show the world why this is bullshit.
	But what's more, you don't even know that the things you're arguing for are mutually contradictory.
	You say that you want individual rights and then you will advocate for group rights.
	That's stupid.
	These are directly contradictory concepts.
	Feminists never call out other feminists for protesting other people's free speech.
	And then you say you're a human rights movement.
	No, you're not.
	You're an anti-human rights movement.
	And it's this flat denial of reality and the fact that this has gone so far that demonstrates the position of privilege in the West that women have.
	If this were men, nobody would be taking it seriously.
	Not one fucking person.
	Women are being treated as if they are children.
	This is how Christians treated children.
	They would say, oh, think of the children, think of the children, but now it's think of the women.
	And for some reason, you haven't considered that feminism is the antithesis of its own message.
	If women need a special advocacy movement in society, then they are probably not the equals of men.
	If they were, why would they need an advocacy group?
	Which is probably the foundational reason, the very underlying premise of my opposition to feminism.
	This is before we go through any of the contradictions or just lies or just any of the nonsense, before any of the things that I've gone through.
	It all boils down to this.
	I don't think women need men's help.
	I think a woman is just as capable of managing and directing her own future as a man is.

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