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Feminists Protest Against Equality

Posted on | June 8, 2014 | 100 Comments

Despite my extensive critical writing about feminism, I have never considered myself a “Men’s Rights Activist” (MRA), simply because I have different concerns than do MRAs and see the problem of feminism differently. MRAs seem to spend a lot of time complaining that men get screwed over in divorce settlements and child custody; I’m a Christian and therefore against divorce, period, so those issues don’t interest me. Also, I am generally against the idea of group rights, so that it would be anomalous of me to support “men’s rights.” Having made those disclaimers, however, I know that much of my writing about feminism has been read by MRAs, so that I’m at least tacitly an ally, and MRAs often call my attention to news items relevant to these issues.

So, the MRA site A Voice for Men (AVFM) held a conference this weekend in Detroit, which feminists attempted to shut down.

Let me repeat this: Feminists attempted to shut down — to silence, to prevent from exercising their First Amendment rights — a conference organized by Men’s Rights Activists.

And you thought “feminazi” was just a jocular insult.

Seriously: Feminists — including self-proclaimed “Unapologetic Fat Lady” Amanda Levitt and notorious mangina David Futrelle — repeatedly urged people to contact the Doubletree Hotel and complain about the conference, accusing AVFM of every hateful thing you could imagine, in an effort to get the conference canceled.

So while feminists insist they should be free to speak and to publish anything they wish — and, quite often, are subsidized by taxpayers in doing so — they do not believe that their critics should be equally free, and feminists will even attempt to stifle the right of their opponents to gather privately and speak to each other.

We now have further proof that:

(a) feminists don’t really believe in “equality,” they just hate men;
and
(b) feminism is a totalitarian movement hostile to basic liberties.

We already knew this, of course, but it was nice of feminists to provide further proof of their hateful anti-freedom agenda.

 

Comments

100 Responses to “Feminists Protest Against Equality”

  1. MrEvilMatt
    June 8th, 2014 @ 11:15 am

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  2. commonpatriot
    June 8th, 2014 @ 11:15 am

    via @rsmccain: Feminists Protest Against Equality http://t.co/PM89gbkcPQ #tcot

  3. CHideout
    June 8th, 2014 @ 11:15 am

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  4. Lockestep1776
    June 8th, 2014 @ 11:15 am

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  5. WeRResistance
    June 8th, 2014 @ 11:15 am

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  6. Citzcom
    June 8th, 2014 @ 11:15 am

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  7. ariyadesai01
    June 8th, 2014 @ 11:16 am

    RT @smitty_one_each: TOM Feminists Protest Against Equality http://t.co/Q7xCNVYmTR #TCOT

  8. rsmccain
    June 8th, 2014 @ 11:21 am

    http://t.co/nyDWodRjK0 “Unapologetic Fat Lady” Amanda Levitt (@FatBodyPolitics) and notorious mangina David Futrelle (@DavidFutrelle)

  9. rsmccain
    June 8th, 2014 @ 11:27 am

    “And you thought ‘feminazi’ was just a jocular insult.” http://t.co/nyDWodRjK0 #mensrights @mensrightsrdt

  10. MartyLeft
    June 8th, 2014 @ 11:29 am

    RT @rsmccain: “And you thought ‘feminazi’ was just a jocular insult.” http://t.co/nyDWodRjK0 #mensrights @mensrightsrdt

  11. tahDeetz
    June 8th, 2014 @ 11:30 am

    RT @rsmccain: “And you thought ‘feminazi’ was just a jocular insult.” http://t.co/nyDWodRjK0 #mensrights @mensrightsrdt

  12. Akane
    June 8th, 2014 @ 11:35 am

    Nothing new, feminists pretty much admit being against equality, this is why the rest of the world mocks and belittles them.

  13. chasboots
    June 8th, 2014 @ 11:35 am

    Saul Alinsky tactics continue to thrive. #TCOT @rsmccain Feminists Protest Against Equality http://t.co/FwGSg26u5u

  14. Guest
    June 8th, 2014 @ 11:37 am

    It goes even further than that… some feminists actually phoned in death threats to the hotel, which resulted in a hefty security fee to keep guests safe.

  15. rsmccain
    June 8th, 2014 @ 11:38 am

    RT @chasboots: Saul Alinsky tactics continue to thrive. #TCOT @rsmccain Feminists Protest Against Equality http://t.co/FwGSg26u5u

  16. anonoMAN42
    June 8th, 2014 @ 11:45 am

    RT @rsmccain: “And you thought ‘feminazi’ was just a jocular insult.” http://t.co/nyDWodRjK0 #mensrights @mensrightsrdt

  17. Cactus Ed
    June 8th, 2014 @ 11:53 am

    And yelling “rape culture” is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

  18. ophidianpilot
    June 8th, 2014 @ 12:05 pm

    Feminists Protest Against Equality
    #tcot #pjnet http://t.co/TOQyBBmEw0 via @rsmccain

  19. RS
    June 8th, 2014 @ 12:06 pm

    I understand your reluctance to totally embrace the Men’s Rights movement, which, as you point out, emphasizes issues in the context of domestic relations and family law. The problem is, nowhere else adequately demonstrates the perfidy of Feminism as well as Family Court. As you have written before, the quest for “equality” is merely a smokescreen for an attempt to attain and maintain power. This is demonstrated daily in domestic cases across the country because that area of the law has been heavily affected by feminist social “science.” Where we see travesties on college campuses when it comes to a presumption of guilt on those men accused of sexual misconduct, so in Family Court do we see similar presumptions directed against husbands and fathers. All of these are underlain by specious “peer reviewed” social science studies written and publicized by Feminists.

  20. WeBeDuped
    June 8th, 2014 @ 12:07 pm

    RT @ophidianpilot: Feminists Protest Against Equality
    #tcot #pjnet http://t.co/TOQyBBmEw0 via @rsmccain

  21. rsmccain
    June 8th, 2014 @ 12:10 pm

    RT @ophidianpilot: Feminists Protest Against Equality
    #tcot #pjnet http://t.co/TOQyBBmEw0 via @rsmccain

  22. AviWoolf
    June 8th, 2014 @ 12:12 pm

    RT @rsmccain: “And you thought ‘feminazi’ was just a jocular insult.” http://t.co/nyDWodRjK0 #mensrights @mensrightsrdt

  23. AviWoolf
    June 8th, 2014 @ 12:12 pm

    RT @rsmccain: http://t.co/nyDWodRjK0 “Unapologetic Fat Lady” Amanda Levitt (@FatBodyPolitics) and notorious mangina David Futrelle (@DavidF…

  24. STERLINGMHOLMES
    June 8th, 2014 @ 12:13 pm

    RT @ophidianpilot: Feminists Protest Against Equality
    #tcot #pjnet http://t.co/TOQyBBmEw0 via @rsmccain

  25. AviWoolf
    June 8th, 2014 @ 12:19 pm

    RT @ophidianpilot: Feminists Protest Against Equality
    #tcot #pjnet http://t.co/TOQyBBmEw0 via @rsmccain

  26. JustPlainBill
    June 8th, 2014 @ 12:31 pm

    Feminists Protest Against Equality http://t.co/YSXGoblncG

  27. happykarigirl
    June 8th, 2014 @ 12:32 pm

    RT @ophidianpilot: Feminists Protest Against Equality
    #tcot #pjnet http://t.co/TOQyBBmEw0 via @rsmccain

  28. robertstacymccain
    June 8th, 2014 @ 12:39 pm

    I understand fully well that men are rather routinely disadvantaged in divorce and child custody proceedings. At the same time, there are always two sides to every story, and I am naturally skeptical of anyone claiming victimhood in such a circumstance. Often, it is true that the person who claims victimhood has been treated unfairly, but that they are also in some way responsible — i.e., that they are not an entirely innocent victim. At the very least, when a fellow tells me, “My ex-wife is an evil, lying, vindictive psychopath,” I must point out that he has impugned his own judgment, as he freely chose to marry that evil, lying, vindictive psychopath,

    Furthermore, it is inevitable that if the Men’s Rights Movement grows, it will attract a certain number of unsavory people, and that anyone who officially associates themselves with the movement will sooner or later be compelled to deny, denounce and repudiate some Men’s Rights comrade who is exposed as a wrongdoer. I’ve seen this happen in other contexts, and I expect that Men’s Rights will prove particularly vulnerable to such problems. All it will take is for a disgruntled ex-wife or a jilted former girlfriend to go public with her complaints against any MRA, and that one person’s problems will then be cited as “proof” that all MRAs are bad people. Some MRAs will then demanded that the targeted activist be purged from the movement, while others will insist that all MRAs must rally to the defense of the targeted activist. Schisms and factions will occur as a result, and the movement will ultimately fragment, becoming marginalized as a cluster of fringe voices.

    Seeing that the MRA movement is thus doomed from the outset, I must therefore maintain my independence, despite my basic sympathy. Thus, I cannot in the future be compelled to denounce the movement — nor can I be unfairly blamed for any wrong alleged against any individual MRA — because I have never endorsed or joined the movement and have, in fact, prophesied the guilt-by-association tactics that will eventually be used against MRAs.

  29. sarahgray
    June 8th, 2014 @ 12:45 pm

    There is absolutely no evidence that any threats were made. Both DPD and the FBI denied any threats were reported.

  30. Southern Air Pirate
    June 8th, 2014 @ 12:46 pm

    http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-uncomfortable-truths-behind-mens-rights-movement/

    Actually, the feminists are painting all MRAs in the same broad brushes of these minor annoying one that the nutter from CA belonged to. That they are all closeted klan or Illinois BRAUNHEMDEN behind the curtains waiting to start something when enough people join.

    This article and the larger protests miss that the family court side and family laws have gone totally against the man. They don’t want to talk about how even if the mother is a drugged up cheater, she will win the kids unless there is more than just a sex tape proving otherwise that she is unfit. That the laws on alimony and child support can break a man and keep him in the poverty. Even if the woman has the talents and skills to earn more than him.

    Nope to all the feminists a MRA is all about suppression and oppression and maintaining the rape culture.

  31. rsmccain
    June 8th, 2014 @ 12:47 pm

    Feminists Protest Against Equality http://t.co/nyDWodRjK0 | http://t.co/y8KEjqR8gu

  32. olson_curt
    June 8th, 2014 @ 12:47 pm

    RT @rsmccain: Feminists Protest Against Equality http://t.co/nyDWodRjK0 | http://t.co/y8KEjqR8gu

  33. Wellfonder
    June 8th, 2014 @ 12:48 pm

    RT @rsmccain: Feminists Protest Against Equality http://t.co/nyDWodRjK0 | http://t.co/y8KEjqR8gu

  34. _FreeMarketeer
    June 8th, 2014 @ 12:48 pm

    RT @rsmccain: Feminists Protest Against Equality http://t.co/nyDWodRjK0 | http://t.co/y8KEjqR8gu

  35. servative
    June 8th, 2014 @ 12:48 pm

    RT @rsmccain: Feminists Protest Against Equality http://t.co/nyDWodRjK0 | http://t.co/y8KEjqR8gu

  36. servative
    June 8th, 2014 @ 12:50 pm

    Very interesting. TY!: RT @rsmccain: Feminists Protest Against Equality http://t.co/F5qyWE8DA8 | http://t.co/CQDtsMQJDq #hewitt #dprs #tcot

  37. Geuzen1
    June 8th, 2014 @ 12:51 pm

    RT @rsmccain: Feminists Protest Against Equality http://t.co/nyDWodRjK0 | http://t.co/y8KEjqR8gu

  38. g56yu
    June 8th, 2014 @ 12:56 pm

    RT @rsmccain: Feminists Protest Against Equality http://t.co/nyDWodRjK0 | http://t.co/y8KEjqR8gu

  39. Guest
    June 8th, 2014 @ 12:57 pm

    Doubletree hotels doesn’t agree with you on that, there is a pdf copy on AVFM of the mail they sent the conference organizers detailing the threats and resultant increased security fees.

  40. sarahgray
    June 8th, 2014 @ 12:59 pm

    Doubletree has not confirmed they sent the letter, and DPD and the FBI have received no reports of threats.

  41. Wheatex
    June 8th, 2014 @ 1:00 pm

    @servative @rsmccain http://t.co/2xt3YpZfag | http://t.co/MwgQf4MVmw
    Replace feminist w liberal n men w conservative http://t.co/km5yEQkZAb

  42. g56yu
    June 8th, 2014 @ 1:00 pm

    RT @rsmccain: http://t.co/nyDWodRjK0 “Unapologetic Fat Lady” Amanda Levitt (@FatBodyPolitics) and notorious mangina David Futrelle (@DavidF…

  43. exsacerdotal
    June 8th, 2014 @ 1:03 pm

    RT @rsmccain: Feminists Protest Against Equality http://t.co/nyDWodRjK0 | http://t.co/y8KEjqR8gu

  44. Nick_d_Williams
    June 8th, 2014 @ 1:09 pm

    RT @rsmccain: Feminists Protest Against Equality http://t.co/nyDWodRjK0 | http://t.co/y8KEjqR8gu

  45. RS
    June 8th, 2014 @ 1:12 pm

    I don’t disagree. I wrote mainly to point out that the Feminist influence on the social sciences has been infecting Family Courts for over three decades. It is one of the battlefields in the war to destroy the institutions of Marriage and the Family. The MRAs myopic focus on only domestic relations litigation misses the big picture, but it is an area where Feminism’s goals can be easily pursued by the Left and where the adverse effects of Feminist “research” on society are easily visible.

  46. E__Strobel
    June 8th, 2014 @ 1:22 pm

    RT @rsmccain: “And you thought ‘feminazi’ was just a jocular insult.” http://t.co/nyDWodRjK0 #mensrights @mensrightsrdt

  47. Guest
    June 8th, 2014 @ 1:24 pm

    I’ve had a gander at your post history.

    Let’s just say I don’t believe you.

  48. Phil_McG
    June 8th, 2014 @ 1:28 pm

    I don’t consider myself a “men’s rights activist” either, just a man. But when the MRA guys are right, they’re right. And they’re frequently right.

    MRA’s are a convenient bogeyman for feminists and manginas, because they can be slandered all day long without fear of retribution. That’s why they’re picketing a bunch of divorced dads instead of, say, a mosque. Feminists are upset at imaginary “gendered violence” and #rapeculture, but are either too cowardly or don’t care enough to protest the real thing.

    Had a look at the Unapologetic Fatty’s Twitter page. Amusingly, it includes pictures of doughnuts and cats. When she finally keels over with hypertension, poor kitty’s going to have to eat her.

  49. Phil_McG
    June 8th, 2014 @ 1:35 pm

    Elliot Rodger wasn’t a mens rights activist. He was a racist little psycho who fetishised blonde women and put them on a pedestal. No MRA, PUA, or any other kind of normal man does that.

    Cracked used to be reasonably amusing clickbait but they’ve gone full social justice retard in recent years. Before they latched on to the Elliot Rodger thing their last major obsession was publishing articles about how hilarious it would be if George Zimmerman was murdered.

  50. Southern Air Pirate
    June 8th, 2014 @ 1:38 pm

    Hey you know that I know that. But to the MSM and the Internet he was a PUA and a MRA.