Mr. Friscus
Governor
Human ingenuity achieved an amazing feat last week, landing a robot spacecraft on a speeding comet 6.5 billion kilometres from Earth with pinpoint accuracy. And yet, instead of basking in the world’s praise, the lead scientist, Matt Taylor, was reduced to tears and forced to apologise for wearing a “sexist” shirt which raised the ire of a global feminist goon squad.
That was the moment you knew without a doubt that feminism has decayed into a tyrannical ideological movement which exists only to punish men for imaginary crimes. Taylor’s shirt featured cartoon images of fully-clothed women with buxom cleavages and flowing hair. It was utterly tame compared to the sort of thing extroverted geeks like to wear.
But to feminism’s lynch mob his shirt was a symbol of the male oppression that keeps women out of science. For days they piled on, taking offence where none existed.
“Thanks for ruining the cool comet landing for me arsehole,” tweeted journalist Rose Eveleth.
“I don’t care if you landed a spacecraft on a comet, your shirt is sexist and ostracising” read the headline of online magazine, The Verge. On and on it went, mean petty minds spoiling the greatest moment of a man’s career, just for sport.
While women in Syria are gang raped and stoned to death, and women in Africa are stripped and beaten by angry mobs, Western feminists are crying sexism over male clothing choices.
No wonder feminism has become a dirty word.
In fact it’s the word people would most like to delete from the dictionary, according to an online poll by Time Magazine last week. “Feminist” received more than 50 per cent of the vote, triple the votes of any other word. Ironically enough, the feminist storm troops managed to bully Time into deleting the word from its poll. On Saturday the magazine issued an apology, saying: “The word ‘feminist’ should not have been included in a list of words to ban”. Why not?
Feminist overreach has disintegrated into such self-parody it’s turned people off, with a recent YouGov poll of 1000 people for The Economist finding just 25 per cent identified as feminists. The nation’s most powerful woman, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, rejects the “feminist” label, as do young celebrities such as Taylor Swift and Kelly Clarkson. How can anyone take feminist complaints seriously when they cry wolf so often. Bullying hapless men for being, at worst, mildly irritating, has nothing to do with equality.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...by-the-Feminists/story-fni0cwl5-1227127446918
Extreme Feminists, such as our own JuliefromOhio or Renee, are killing the very thing they claim to fight for. However, most of this aggressive style has deep-seeded roots in holding contempt for men and desiring some sort of vengeance and wish for power over them.
However, while women are so equal and even earning and performing above men in many areas, there are always places that still need improvement. It's just a shame these bad apples are ruining it for the innocent victims.
That was the moment you knew without a doubt that feminism has decayed into a tyrannical ideological movement which exists only to punish men for imaginary crimes. Taylor’s shirt featured cartoon images of fully-clothed women with buxom cleavages and flowing hair. It was utterly tame compared to the sort of thing extroverted geeks like to wear.
But to feminism’s lynch mob his shirt was a symbol of the male oppression that keeps women out of science. For days they piled on, taking offence where none existed.
“Thanks for ruining the cool comet landing for me arsehole,” tweeted journalist Rose Eveleth.
“I don’t care if you landed a spacecraft on a comet, your shirt is sexist and ostracising” read the headline of online magazine, The Verge. On and on it went, mean petty minds spoiling the greatest moment of a man’s career, just for sport.
While women in Syria are gang raped and stoned to death, and women in Africa are stripped and beaten by angry mobs, Western feminists are crying sexism over male clothing choices.
No wonder feminism has become a dirty word.
In fact it’s the word people would most like to delete from the dictionary, according to an online poll by Time Magazine last week. “Feminist” received more than 50 per cent of the vote, triple the votes of any other word. Ironically enough, the feminist storm troops managed to bully Time into deleting the word from its poll. On Saturday the magazine issued an apology, saying: “The word ‘feminist’ should not have been included in a list of words to ban”. Why not?
Feminist overreach has disintegrated into such self-parody it’s turned people off, with a recent YouGov poll of 1000 people for The Economist finding just 25 per cent identified as feminists. The nation’s most powerful woman, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, rejects the “feminist” label, as do young celebrities such as Taylor Swift and Kelly Clarkson. How can anyone take feminist complaints seriously when they cry wolf so often. Bullying hapless men for being, at worst, mildly irritating, has nothing to do with equality.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...by-the-Feminists/story-fni0cwl5-1227127446918
Extreme Feminists, such as our own JuliefromOhio or Renee, are killing the very thing they claim to fight for. However, most of this aggressive style has deep-seeded roots in holding contempt for men and desiring some sort of vengeance and wish for power over them.
However, while women are so equal and even earning and performing above men in many areas, there are always places that still need improvement. It's just a shame these bad apples are ruining it for the innocent victims.
