Not all, but those that don't probably aren't feminists. They're egalitareans-despite what they call themselves. I would guess that the majority of women and men that call themselves feminists, that aren't egalitareans, do hate men. For example: "All men are rapists and that's all they are" — Marilyn French, Authoress; (later, advisoress to Al Gore's Presidential Campaign.) "I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it." — Barbara Jordan; Former Congresswoman "Men are rapists, batterers, plunderers, killers; these same men are religious prophets, poets, heroes, figures of romance, adventure, accomplishment, figures ennobled by tragedy and defeat. Men have claimed the earth, called it 'Her'. Men ruin Her. Men have airplanes, guns, bombs, poisonous gases, weapons so perverse and deadly that they defy any authentically human imagination." — Andrea Dworkin, "Pornography: Men Possessing Women" "As long as some men use physical force to subjugate females, all men need not. The knowledge that some men do suffices to threaten all women. He can beat or kill the woman he claims to love; he can rape women...he can sexually molest his daughters... THE VAST MAJORITY OF MEN IN THE WORLD DO ONE OR MORE OF THE ABOVE." — Marilyn French "I feel that 'man-hating' is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them." — Robin Morgan, "Ms. Magazine" Editor "Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman." — Andrea Dworkin "All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman." — Catherine MacKinnon "And if the professional rapist is to be separated from the average dominant heterosexual (male), it may be mainly a quantitative difference." — Susan Griffin, "Rape: The All-American Crime" In a speech in Banff, Canada, Andrea Dworkin exhorted her audience to "stop men who beat women", "Get them jailed or get them killed. ... When the law fails us, we cannot fail each other." "Men, as a group, tend to be abusive, either verbally, sexually or emotionally. There are always the exceptions, but they are few and far between (I am married to one of them). There are different levels of violence and abuse and individual men buy into this system by varying degrees. But the male power structure always remains intact." — Message on FEMISA, responding to a request for arguments that men are unnecessary for a child to grow into mature adulthood "Women have their faults. Men have only two: everything they say, and everything they do." — graffiti frequently found on university campuses with active feminist movements From 'A feminist Dictionary', edited by Kramarae and Triechler, Pandora Press, 1985: MALE:...represents a variant of or deviation from the category of female. The first males were mutants...the male sex represents a degeneration and deformity of the female. MAN:...an obsolete life form... an ordinary creature who needs to be watched...a contradictory baby-man... TESTOSTERONE POISONING: ... 'Until now it has been though that the level of testosterone in men is normal simply because they have it. But if you consider how abnormal their behavior is, then you are led to the hypothesis that almost all men are suffering from "testosterone poisoning."
There's no question that radical feminists are misandrists (ie, they are sexist and hateful towards men.) Radical feminism is a sick and twisted ideology. Feminism may be about equality, but radical feminism is about the superiority of women over men. Radical feminists want to punish men for the inequalities against women, from the past.
1. Originally Posted by The Amazing Sam's Ego There's no question that radical feminists are misandrists (ie, they are sexist and hateful towards men.) Originally Posted by Taiko: “sounds an awful lot like psychological projection going on here. you cannot give any citation for any of your claims.” Posted by Ryobi: I can give you a citation for The Amazing Sam’s Ego’s claim that, "radical feminists are misandrists (ie, they are sexist and hateful towards men." Here you go. In your own words… Originally Posted by Taiko: "I know why I dont like or trust men." Cheers, Ryobi
I have not met an extreme feminist in real life but I have met more than enough on the internet, so yes I think feminism like many other schools of thought has a problem with extremism. How prevalent it is I dont dare to guess.
Nefarious Actually I'm not very good with the whole internet forum thing. Believe me it wasn't my intention to attribute a quote to you that was not your own, even though I'm a man whose an egalitarean and not a women who is a feminist
When I say Im a feminist it doesnt mean any of the things you associate with the word. Shake and be friends?
Id hope you'd have no reason for animosity. To me it means standing up for myself, not accepting any condesenscion (see, I never could spell that word) not accepting as status quo any inferior role. That kind of thing. As for not liking men.. I'm working my way thru ptsd issues related to abuse. I dont want to always have to feel this distrust and fear, for now I cant help it. It has zero to do with feminism as such.
Me too, but Im not going to let it ruin my life. Its not really that I dont like men, Im scared of them.
does anyone ever think that radical feminism could lead to a huge social shift in which we adopt an amazonian system of female dominance instead of a logical gender equal society which i hope in the future we will reach.
