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June 19, 2019 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin
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Why Do People Hate Feminism #13 - Feminism is Totalitarian
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I was appointed as Goodwill Ambassador for UN Women six months ago.
And the more I've spoken about feminism, the more I have realized that fighting for women's rights has too often become synonymous with man-hating.
And my recent research has shown me that feminism has become an unpopular word.
Why has the word become such an uncomfortable one?
Man, this is a real blast from the past.
I haven't taken the time out to educate Emma Watson on why people hate feminism in quite some time.
So this episode was inspired by a few events that have happened recently.
Kicking off with Conservative MP Dominic Rubb running for the leadership of the Conservative Party and the media asking him this.
Would you describe yourself as a feminist?
No, probably not, but I would describe myself as someone who's a champion of equality and meritocracy.
The London-based media had an absolute fit, and this is the result.
And pay attention to the intro to this, if you want to see what I mean when I say it's the London-based media.
Good morning, Britain, from London.
The very heart of London, in fact, is going to speak to the rest of the country.
And we are going to ask you whether it's okay to not be a feminist, which means that we are representing about 9.2% of the women in this country, when we talk about feminism, we describe ourselves as feminists, whereas 91% or so of the country do not.
I think this is all symptomatic of a really worrying trend that's happened recently, whereby we've seen the same recycled bigotry that was thrown at the suffragettes, Jermaine Greer, you know, feminists throughout the centuries.
But every new wave of feminism that comes along, you have a right-wing lobby trying to discredit it, taking the most extreme and most easy-to-ridicule examples of what a feminist is, trying to undermine equality.
Yes, I totally agree that recently, people have been digging up the same old criticisms of feminism that they've always had.
Things like, the suffragettes were racist, Jermaine Greer is a turf and a troll and worthy of deplatforming from any institution in the land.
These are not the same problems.
The problem now is in fact one of rampant totalitarianism.
Are we even allowed to say that we are not feminists, comrade?
But this part is the most scary use of language, in my opinion.
And I'm so annoyed that nobody else calls this out.
Trying to undermine equality.
One, I didn't think we had equality, and that's why we needed feminism.
Two, screw you, I don't have to give up my liberty because you feel inferior to the people around you.
And three, I'm not a communist.
I don't have a moral objection to people being different and not all having the same thing.
So going against equality is perfectly acceptable to me because it seems that some of the worst things in human history have been done in the name of equality.
What have you got against the term feminism and why can't people like Dominic Rai, why shouldn't they come out and be very supportive of the term?
Because they don't have to be you tyrants.
If Dominic Raab finds feminism to be against his value structure, if he finds the things done in feminism's name by feminists to be unfair, which is a perfectly reasonable criticism of a movement that will hold back boys who are born and alive now for the crimes of men who lived hundreds of years ago, it is not unreasonable to find feminism to be an unfair movement.
If you ask me what feminism was, they would say it is essentially about equality.
Yeah, but man, I'm not a communist.
Women have the same rights as men now.
In fact, arguably, they have more.
Women have as much, if not more, self-determination as men do now.
Why would I care beyond this point?
When women are essentially free to operate in the world like men, that's our job done.
That's the end goal that we thought that you were looking for achieved.
Now you're sitting there going, well, but equality, equality, equality, money, money, money, this, this, this, material goods.
I have to reiterate, I am not a communist.
Be not the feminist position on everything that I've just said is going to be.
This is exactly what I'm talking about.
This is the reason that more and more women aren't identifying with the word.
That's a tragedy.
And it's because of this stereotype that is being pandered by publications like yours and by journalists like you.
You know, when I think of the fourth wave feminist, I think of Nimco Ali, who's campaigning to end FGM.
I think of Amica George, who's successfully campaigned to end period poverty in schools.
Think of Ellen Jones, who's doing so much for women with autism.
I think of Malala Yousafsar.
Malala Yousafs.
Yeah, educational women in the world.
Jessica Fostercue, who wants women in Northern Ireland to be able to choose whether or not they have an abortion.
These are the women that represent the movement, but they are never represented by people who want to undermine the movement.
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is where we get to demonstrate something that we can call female privilege.
Of course, she doesn't see the dark underbelly to her dreams of utopia.
Of course she doesn't see it because she is a woman.
Feminism is a movement to give her benefits that she has not earned.
She is a beneficiary of the power grab that she is trying to accomplish.
And at this point, we are debating whether it's okay not to be a feminist.
Well, this is what it looks like when the feminists take over, say, a Scottish school.
If I am, then why would you kick me out of class?
It's not very inclusive.
Can I finish my sentence, please?
Not very inclusive.
No, I'm sorry.
What you were saying was not very inclusive.
And this is an inclusive school.
Yeah, how was what I was saying?
Because I was saying that what's wrong with the website is that there are more than one gender in this country.
That is my opinion.
And that is an opinion which is acceptable in the school.
I'm afraid yours, which you're saying that there's no such thing as anyone other than male or female, is a very good idea.
Scientifically, there are just two genders.
Depending on what gender things are.
You're choosing to make an issue of this.
Because I said, are you really going to go?
That was your opportunity to keep quiet.
You made the issue with it on the website.
You said, oh, this website doesn't have more than two genders.
You were clearly given an opportunity not to pursue it.
You chose to do so.
Yeah, because I think it's silly.
You chose to do so.
Yes, that's a key question.
You chose to do so.
I think it's silly to have anything other than two genders.
That, okay.
Anything else?
Please keep that opinion to your own house.
Thank you.
So you get to put your opinion out on Klaus and my opinion.
No, I am not.
My opinion has to stay in the middle of the state.
I am not putting my opinion.
I am not putting my opinion out.
I am stating what is national school authority policy.
Okay?
Well, it's not scientific whatsoever.
Not every policy is scientific, Brian.
It's sorry, not every policy is scientific, Murray.
And you can't come out here and say that I'm not being inclusive when someone says that.
I said what you were saying was not being inclusive.
You kicked me out of class.
If you want to have a discussion about it, we could have done it, had a discussion.
You don't have to kick me out of class.
I'm sorry.
I'm going to waste 30 minutes of my time.
Or I could have been down revising, doing something else.
Instead, I state something I believe in.
You kick me out of class for 30 minutes.
I'm waiting on that.
Take this somewhere else, Murray.
You can make an official complaint.
I'm not going to make an official complaint.
Why not?
I just think it's.
I know what you think, and I know what the authority thinks.
I know what the authorities' point of view is.
It's very clear, very clear that we make no discrimination on the grounds of various...
I wasn't making discrimination.
I'm simply saying there are two genders, male and female.
Yep.
Anything else is a personal identification.
I'm sorry, but you chose to make an issue of making a point which is contrary to policy.
You make this.
It's honestly like watching an episode of Chernobyl, isn't it?
It's like something that would have happened in the Soviet Union.
To this teacher, the authority dictates truth, even if it isn't scientific, and they seem to get really upset when you point that out.
You could have just kept your mouth shut.
You should have just sat there and been quiet.
This is not a tyrannical regime, comrade.
And what's it over?
It's over whether there are two genders or more than two genders.
These are our schools in which this nonsense is being forced into kids' heads and they're being tyrannized if they question it.
Even if I thought their goals were admirable, which I actually don't, it is inconceivable to me that this can be tolerated because I don't think that men and women need to be equal in material terms.
I do think they both need to be free.
And treating someone the way that this teacher is treating this student because of his fear of the feminist authorities' opinion on gender is intolerable to me.
It seems really unfair from my point of view.
And I'm not alone in noticing the tyrannical nature of feminism.
Michael and Twitter says feminism seems to be an ugly word these days and many feminists seem to be dictating to other women what they can do and demonizing men in the process.
It doesn't seem to stand for equality anymore rather than select what it wants.
And what it seems to want is revenge against men.
Is that the problem that actually that perhaps Dominic Raab and others don't want to say they are feminists because they think that that means you're anti-men?
I do love the way that that presenter tries to put a brave face on that.
Well, it just seems to be that way because of these feminists who seem to hate men.
And they get a mistaken impression of it because honestly, we don't really hate men, but men have been oppressing women for all of human history.
And it is justified to hate your oppressors.
And you must always punch up.
And because men are oppressing women, all women all the time are always punching up.
So it actually doesn't matter.
You actually can't be sexist to men.
Just so you know.
So let me tell you how we should hashtag kill all men.
I wonder where people got the impression that feminists hate men from.
It's not just Dominic Robb.
No, no, no, but the majority of women in this case, right?
Most women don't want to identify with us because if you are a free thinker, you know, I'm attacked for publications like mine.
My publication actually breaks down statistically what the gender pay gap is in the UK.
And if you take job and age into account, women are doing very, very well compared to their male counterparts.
But goodness forbid I say that.
And the thing is, that isn't even the half of it.
As a consequence of the feminist takeover of society and the weighting of the scales, the deliberate placing of the thumb on the scales in favour of women, young women are now out-earning young men.
That is, until they hit their 30s and presumably decide that they want to start a family.
Something that a Labour MP called Stella Creasy decided to complain about in The Guardian this week, saying that she's forced to choose between being a mum and an MP.
Oh, the horror.
A woman has a choice.
I thought that's what you wanted as feminists.
And apparently conservative politicians who should be in opposition to Stella Creasy just agree.
Yeah, why not?
Why not give a woman a benefit that a man cannot have with regards to taxpayer money in parliament?
Why not?
Surely that's what we call equality, comrade.
It's equality when mainstream normie papers like The Sun say that young men are losing the battle of the sexes.
And that might be a problem because that might affect women.
Women are going to be worried and ashamed that they're out earning their husbands and boyfriends.
Oh god, equality has hurt them because it has advantaged them over the men.
Be careful what you wish for, I guess you just might get it.
But the thing is, we don't care about the mass of men at the bottom of society who are actually failing, who are actually falling behind and being systematically disadvantaged because there are some men who are not at the bottom yet.
The most recent statistics shows of the 10,000 companies that have submitted their salaries to a public inquiry, around 10,000 companies, 8,000 of them, there was a significant difference in the median pay between men and women.
Now, you might argue that it's illegal to pay two people doing the same job a different salary, but we need to ask why as a society we are devaluing the work that is generally done by women.
That's the real question to be asked today.
The gender pay gap is one of the most cited examples of how women are being systematically disadvantaged in comparison to men, i.e. oppressed.
However, as that feminist idiot just explained to you, in the nature and the way the framing of her question, she fundamentally does not understand what's happening.
Why is women's work being valued as less than men's?
The answer is, it isn't.
They get paid the same for the same work.
So the question is how much work do they do?
Well, we know since the year 2000 in the UK, women have, on average, per week, done about 34 hours of work.
Equal work to men, who do, on average, since the year 2000, around 39 hours a week of work.
The same work that women do.
Nothing the feminists are saying is legitimate.
And yet the entire country is in thrall to feminist ideology.
In the schools, on the television, in the government, they all parrot this bullshit.
It's not true.
Any of it.
It's a fiction.
And it appears to be a fiction that is held in place through tyranny.
It is not right that there is a media mafia that goes around bullying people if they say they're not a feminist in order to try and publicly shame them.
It's not right that someone who disagrees with feminist dogma would be removed from their class just for voicing an opinion that went contrary to the authority.
It's not right that a person who claims to be some kind of representative for feminism can go on TV and literally just lay out how they just don't understand how economics works.
They just don't understand how women are in aggregate overall earning slightly less than men, even though they work slightly less than men.
And sit there as if they've got the moral high ground and demand something be done about it, like our fucking MPs in both the Labour and the Conservative parties, who apparently have a large number of them that proclaim themselves to be feminists.
This is madness.
And we ended up in this position because of a particularly backwards understanding of what the individualistic liberal philosophy of England is.
To give you an example, if we just said, you know, humanism and individualism was the way forward, and homosexuality, for example, we had to concentrate on homosexuality.
We have to support that group.
And without supporting them, without singling out the discrimination they receive, they would never have had the rights that they have now.
Every group is made up of individuals, and it is to the individual that each person can relate.
You can't relate to a group of people because you don't know those people.
However, you can relate to someone like Rosa Parks, who on account of her being black refuses to sit at the back of the bus.
It's very easy for one to relate to this and say, you know what, but for the grace of God, that could have been me being racially discriminated against, or in this case, for my sexual preference.
And then you don't, as a solution, privilege a group.
You then create a universal rule that doesn't exclude them, which is what we're done.
And surely feminism does the same thing.
It supports all it's doing, it's making the focus and the support for women's rights.
That cannot be a bad thing.
That can only be a good thing.
Imagine saying that.
Imagine saying focusing on one thing and not the other could only be a good thing.
Especially when it is, as far as they're concerned, a zero-sum game.
Women are in direct competition with men, so we will exclusively privilege the women, and that can't be a bad thing.
Unbelievable.
I mean, you're not even speaking to the methods by which you achieve this.
It can only be a good thing if we exclusively privilege one type of person in society.
And that can only be a good thing for that person.
But those people not being privileged, I think it might be a bad thing for them.
And the reason is because you're raising the privilege of a group over the rights of the individual.
Because the individuals you have decided to ignore are part of the wrong group because they were born wrong.
And surely it's like, okay, some people are going to misuse that.
Some people are going to become more extreme in that version.
But the very basics of feminism you have to own, surely.
He thinks it's okay that some people will victimize others in service of feminism because it won't be him.
They are acceptable casualties for the collectivist utopian goal that feminism has for society that most women do not agree with.
It's also about making sure this conversation isn't shut down by people talking about victimhood or somehow that modern feminism is failing women.
Feminism isn't about women, it's about power.
And just in case you thought it was, this is never going to go away if they get their way.
Everybody should be committed to gender equality and we'll still need feminism after we achieve it because it would be daft to throw something out that has worked in order to so there we have it folks they have in mind a thousand year feminist Reich.
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