Hi everyone, I hope you’re all well.
So, I have talked about feminists
and feminism a lot on this channel, on TV,
in my writing, it’s always
been a large chunk of my commentary.
Specifically third and fourth
wave feminism, you know, all the modern stuff
that is largely
complaining for the sake of complaining by
bitter, insecure women
who hate themselves and everyone who disagrees
with them.
But what I haven’t talked about a lot are
male feminists; men on the
regressive left who, for some reason, buy
into an ideology that
literally wants to deny them opportunities
by pulling women up, at
the expense of men, via artificial social
processes.
They also seem perfectly happy to exist in
an environment where, at
least in the case of straight white men, they
are the only identity
group who it is socially acceptable to denigrate
on the basis of race
and gender.
Why men would ever side with this kind of
movement has always
puzzled me.
Sure, some of the more well-meaning and weak-minded
of them have been brainwashed into thinking
feminism is still just
about promoting equality, and that as the
alleged oppressors, they
deserve all the pack criticism they get.
To those men, I send my
deepest sympathies.
However, there is a contingent of male feminist,
who, from my
experience, is the largest contingent, who
latch onto the feminist
movement for far more insidious reasons.
Now, we’ve all seen
commentators make fun of male feminists for
their apparently eager
subservience to women.
And that’s very easy to do, especially when
we see tweets like this
That last tweet had nothing to do with feminism…but
I just thought
you should see it
However, these puppy-dog-esque affirmations
are often
symptomatic of a darker complex.
A male feminist is a usually
heterosexual man who claims to support women.
But by support, I
mean constantly telling them how oppressed
they are by men, and
how insecure they should feel walking down
the street because of
how predatory men can be, and what an unfair
place the world is for
women, and don’t worry because I’m not
like other men.
I’m an ally,
and I’ll stand with you against the big
bad patriarchy.
In other words, these are men who like subjugating
women, and
enjoy making them feel bad about themselves.
And in feminism,
they’ve found the perfect way to do this
without being called a
misogynist.
Even though they are the true internalised
misogynists.
With this behaviour, the male feminist can
make already insecure
women feel even more insecure about themselves,
thus exercising a
sort of power play over them with the eventual
goal being to…well
On top of this; considering female feminists
vast hypocrisy when it
comes to conservative women, the male feminist
also has licence to
externally exercise his misogyny by calling
conservative women all of
the most disgustingly quintessentially sexist
things you can possibly
imagine.
Since lady feminists believe, in their infinite
idiocy, that women who
disagree with them are capitulating to the
patriarchy and thus
enabling the alleged systems of power that
oppress women, all for
the sake of obtaining male attention, they
are happy to admit that
conservative women lose their intersectional
“woman card”.
Therefore, as apparent traitors to their gender,
female feminists
think it’s perfectly fine to harass and
disparage conservative women,
using all the gendered, sexist insults they
would decry as misogyny if
directed at one of their own.
This is perfect for the male feminist, because
he can indulge his
internal hatred of women by pouring it into
sexist trolling of right
wing ladies, and be congratulated for it by
feminist women.
When
you put it like that; it’s very easy to
see why these types of men are
attracted to feminism.
After all, modern feminist have strayed from
the female empowerment mantra of second wave
feminists, in
favour of 1850s couch-fainting victim feminism.
Rather than seeing women as every bit as capable
as men of exacting
their autonomy, modern feminists see women
as fragile beings who
need to be catered for by men, lest they intimidate
or offend women
with a potential microaggression.
As such, modern feminists infantilise women;
encouraging their
insecurities rather than toughing them up.
Of course predatorial,
quietly misogynistic men would be attracted
to the movement.
This
true internalised misogyny of leftist male
feminists regrettably
extends beyond the pungent hallways of Twitter
into the real world.
Amidst the flurry of anecdotes about sexual
assault that cascaded
through the public realm from October 15th,
2017, the inauguration
of the metoo movement, it seemed most of the
highest profile
allegations were against powerful men of the
left, many of which
claimed to be feminists.
Harvey Weinstein was the most obvious example;
a lifelong donor to
the Democratic Party who attended the 2017
Women’s March in
Park City, Utah.
He was accused of the most horrific systemic
sexual
harassment and assault of women over a period
of several decades.
He had used his considerable power to corner
young women into
granting him particular favours, which were
often very much non-
consensual.
Now, let’s be real here, there are some
actresses who are happy to
operate under the expectations of the ‘casting
couch’.
That’s their
choice.
However, there are plenty who aren’t, and
many of them
suffered terribly at the hands of Harvey,
but knew they would be
blacklisted if they spoke out.
Louis CK was the next; a comedian who has
on occasion infused
seemingly feminist rhetoric into his routines.
He was accused of
sexual misconduct by five women, and eventually
admitted to the
claims.
Not to mention Joss Whedon, who, while not
accused of
sexual misconduct, routinely cheated on his
ex-wife Kai Cole during
their marriage, while singing the praises
of feminism and writing
feminist themed scripts.
In fact, Cole said she felt he used her as
a shield; so he could
continue with his bad behaviour, with nobody
criticising his
relationships with women, or scrutinizing
his writing as anything
other than feminist.
So how did he eventually excuse this bad
behaviour to Kai Cole?
Well, in a letter he wrote to her when their
marriage was falling apart, he said,
“In many ways I was the HEIGHT of normal,
in this culture.
We’re
taught to be providers and companions and
at the same time, to
conquer and acquire — specifically sexually
— and I was pulling off
both!”
Oh, how convenient!
It’s society that’s the problem, not you!
How
very left-wing.
Then on October 17, two days after #metoo
went viral, there was an
allegation made anonymously on Facebook about
Sam Kriss,
contributor to the heavily left-leaning Vice
magazine.
Kriss, a rabid
socialist who Tweeted that Chairman Mao was
a “big softy” who had
gone easy on his victims, posited himself
as a hero of the left and
advocate for women.
However, the anonymous allegation painted
him in a very different light.
The woman alleged he had groped her while
on their third date,
forcibly touched her, twisted her head to
make her kiss him in a
crowded theatre, and tried to force her to
drink alcohol, even though
she insisted she didn’t want to.
Sam Kriss apologised for his behaviour, and
while he admitted to it,
he attempted to put some context around the
issue, insisting they
had a prior sexual relationship.
That old excuse.
The author also
alleged that he had tried to get her to go
home with him by
leveraging his parents’ big fancy house
“When I returned I sat away from him.
Then the various manoeuvres
to get me to go home with him began.
I want to relay precisely how
he first suggested this because it demonstrates
a willingness to laud
wealth (and thus power).
Sam said, “so do you want to come back to
mine to see my massive house?”
“Don’t you mean your parents
massive house?”
“Yeah, but when they die I’ll inherit
it”
Some socialist, amirite?
The list goes on.
On October 19, it was revealed that Rupert
Myers;
GQ magazine’s political correspondent, had
his freelance contract
with the publication terminated after allegations
of historical sexual
misconduct by a number of women.
Around the same time, Andy Signore, creator
of Screen Junkies and
the Honest Trailers series, who owned the
suggestions that his show
had a “feminist agenda”, and asked his
Twitter feed in April 2017 to
defend a female contributor from the “hell
pit that is our YouTube
comments”, was fired by Defy Media for “egregious
and intolerable”
sexual behaviour.
Former intern Emma Bower, who had worked for
Signore in 2015,
alleged that he messaged her to tell her how
“hot” she was, and that
he wanted come to her hotel room to behave
inappropriately
towards her while she had a less than usual
amount of clothing on,
to use YouTube friendly terminology, I hope.
This was followed by accusations from Screen
Junkies fan April
Dawn, who alleged Signore invited her to a
Screen Junkies party at
the Chicago Comic-Con.
However, the party turned out to be Signore
alone in his hotel room, who then tried to
“force himself” on Dawn,
according to her.
She also accused him of stopping by her hotel
in Los Angeles, where
she was attending another screen junkies event.
She said he pulled
out an adult toy, and tried to use it on her.
He then threated to kick
her out of the hotel and fire her boyfriend
(who worked for the
company at the time) if she told anyone.
Considering these allegations, it’s no wonder
Defy Media gave Andy
Signore the flick.
But, interestingly enough, Defy Media had
been
aware of the allegations against Signore for
months, but waited until
Weinstein was ousted before they took any
action.
Their statement
read:
“In August, Defy’s HR team was made aware
of allegations made
against Andy, at which time an investigation
was launched.
On
Friday, new information became available and
the scope and
magnitude of his inappropriate actions became
apparent.
We are
acting swiftly to address the concerns of
the people affected, and
that going forward, our community is free
of harassment or
discrimination of any kind.”
Is it too much to speculate that Defy Media,
a company that
promotes heavily left-leaning contributors,
would still be protecting
Signore if the whistle hadn’t been blown
on Weinstein?
Who really
knows?
Fast forward to 2018, to possibly the world’s
most famous male
feminist; Canada’s very own baby-faced golden
boy of the so-called
progressive movement, Prime Minister Justin
Trudeau.
Trudeau is a self-proclaimed feminist.
He is known for his alleged
advocacy of women’s rights, doe-eyed earnestness
in his vehement
insistence on respect for women, and rampant
support for the
#metoo movement.
He also posits such woke phrases as
He even invented a new word
Considering all this avid male-feministing,
it stands to reason that in
June 2018, it came to light Trudeau had, in
fact, groped a young
reporter, Rose Knight, at a music festival
in Creston, British Columbia
in the year 2000.
Adding insult to injury; while Trudeau apparently
apologised for the incident the next day,
he capped it off with, “If I
had known you were reporting for a national
paper, I never would
have been so forward.”
When the allegations came out, the world was
waiting for Justin
‘Peoplekind’ Trudeau’s response.
Would he issue a pleading mea
culpa?
Would he resign?
After all, Trudeau did suspend two MPs for
harassment allegations in 2014, surely he
would put his money
where his mouth was?
Not to do so would be the gravest hypocrisy
one would have thought.
Well, as it turns out, Trudeau’s response
was simply,
&quot;Part of this awakening we&#39;re having
a society, a long awaited
realization, is that it&#39;s not just one
side of the story that matters, that
the same interactions could be experienced
very differently from one
person to the next, and I am not going to
speak for the woman in
question,&quot;
&quot;I do not feel that I acted inappropriately
in any way.
But I respect
the fact that someone else might have experienced
that differently
and this is part of the reflections that we
have to go through,&quot;
Now, I betcha Louis CK, Sam Kriss, Andy Signore,
not to mention the
two MPs Trudeau suspended also felt that the
same interactions
could be experienced differently from one
person to the next, and
yet they were still cancelled, so to speak.
Justin Trudeau, on the other hand, was very
quickly forgiven by his
supporters, and the whole incident brushed
under the rug.
Which is
ironic, since the attitude of “but I experienced
it differently to her” is
one of the things the metoo movement was allegedly
fighting
against.
But, I guess, when it comes to its darlings,
especially Justin Trudeau,
the progressive movement is very, very tolerant
of bad behaviour.
Groping, blackface, or otherwise.
Are you beginning to see a pattern here?
It’s always those who
protest the loudest who are guilty of the
most heinous sins.
That’s
true of the regressive left generally.
The most virulent anti-racist are
more often than not afflicted with the bigotry
of low expectations,
and hold people of colour to lower standards
of behaviour than they
do white people.
The most outspoken heterosexual pro-gay advocates
are insistent on
defining gay people by their sexuality, which
used to be a tool of
homophobia that early proponents of gay acceptance
were fighting
against.
It’s called “projection”, and it is
rampant among the modern
leftist movement.
So, if you are a man who is concerned about
women’s equality in the
West; please don’t be.
We’re really fine.
Yes, there are still maybe a
few societal kinks to iron out, but by and
large, we have it really good
nowadays.
So don’t ever, ever, fall into the trap
of calling yourself a
male feminist.
Trust me, it doesn’t mean what you think
it means.
