Feminist hypocrisy strikes again. Ever see the movie "Hard Candy"? A young girl castrates a man and puts his testicles in a garbage disposal. Where was the protest from feminist activists?Ahh Anthony, Anthony, Anthony.
Feminism is a movement concerning the advancement of women to the equality of men, and so feminists tend to focus their efforts and energy on advancing the status of women, which includes concerns about the depiction of women in the media.
Contrary to what seems to be popular MRA belief this isn't hypocrisy. Men and women legitimately concerned with the depiction of men in the media can freely protest, so it's not like women are holding men back by making this protest.
Apparently feminists aren't allowed to complain when they're offended because this man happened to not be offended by something. Awesome. Gotta love that condescending "stop complaining ladies" thing too. Perhaps the feminists and pro-feminists involved in this protest were all INDIVIDUAL people, concerned with the sexualization of violence against women. Perhaps their complaining gets the word out to other INDIVIDUAL people who are concerned by the sexualization of violence against women.
"Stop complaining ladies! If I can watch a movie involving castration without getting offended, maybe you should allow the INDIVIDUAL female decide whether Tarantino’s new movie is offense."
Perhaps their complaint will allow INDIVIDUALS to make informed choices about whether they want to spend their money on something that sexualizes violence against women.
But you don't care about what the individuals partaking in that protest want or the individuals who might be moved to make their own choices based on the protest want, do you?
3 comments:
I think its cool if MRAs decide to complain about gender stereotypes and whatnot in the media.
I just don't think its cool if they use their not complaining as some sort of viable reason why no-one else should ever complain about something.
Can't say I'm too fond of the language 'whiny feminists' and 'chicks'
I will be moderating this blog, especially if I get more comments coming through. Messages with hostile language will likely be prime targets for deletion.
Just so's you can't say I didn't warn y'all. Play nice is all.
So basically women can be as good as and as bad as men, but feminism will only recognize the former and ignore the latter.
Double standards ? Yes, please !
What? How on earth did you read that from what I said?
I said that men can protest things they find offensive, women can protest things _they_ find offensive - and telling people they can't protest anything, because you never have is silly and condescending.
Are you just typing random antifeminist things into random windows now?
But if you must know my opinion: Women are people. People are (in my opinion) rather terrible creatures oftentimes.
So, women are rather terrible people oftentimes too.
But only because they're human.
*shrug*
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