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The First Rule of Feminism

Posted on | January 29, 2015 | 183 Comments

Feminism is the belief that men are entirely useless, except when men are destructive and evil. If you think any man ever had any skill, knowledge or virtue that entitled him to be treated with courtesy and respect, you are not a feminist. According to feminism, all that is good and worthy in human history — all important accomplishments, every act of courage and kindness — has been done by women. Anyone who believes otherwise has been brainwashed by the patriarchal myth that males have imposed on society as “history” and so-called “science.”

Such are the esoteric doctrines of feminism, the c0re ideology that inspires their endless complaints about inequality and oppression. By proclaiming that they have a monopoly of wisdom and virtue, feminists thereby empower themselves to tell the rest of us what we are allowed to say and what we are permitted to think. If at any time you make any statement that is not consistent with feminist ideology, you will be vilified and insulted, shouted down by the feminist mob that exercises a heckler’s veto over public discourse. Totalitarian movements require totalitarian tactics, and the foremost goal of feminists is to silence those whom they aim to enslave or destroy. See for yourself:

RULES FOR MEN IN FEMINIST MOVEMENTS

  • Shut up and listen
  • Ask me, don’t tell me
  • Prepare to be wrong
  • Call fellow men out on problematic behaviour
  • Never dismiss the lived experiences of women
  • Do not attempt to take a leadership role

Feminists who say their movement is about “equality” are lying. Feminism is a movement about power — absolute and unlimited power — and therefore the first rule for men in feminist movements is, SHUT UP. (That list of rules has been “liked” or “reblogged” more than 20,000 times on Tumblr.com since it was posted in April 2013.)

The three principles of feminism are selfishness, dishonesty and hate. If feminism had a fourth principle, it would be more hate.

“I don’t particularly like babies. They are loud and smelly and, above all other things, demanding . . . time-sucking monsters with their constant neediness. . . . I don’t want a baby. . . . Nothing will make me want a baby. . . . This is why, if my birth control fails, I am totally having an abortion.”
Amanda Marcotte, March 2014

Feminism’s fanatical hatred empowers feminist dishonesty. They usually try to pretend that “choice” isn’t about hating babies, but the question remains: If feminists don’t hate babies, why do they want to kill them?

To which their answer is, SHUT UP.

We cannot be permitted to speak the truth about feminism. Facts and logic are tools of the patriarchy, and ordinary “common sense” — well, that’s just an obsolete male-supremacist myth!

A movement that systematically excludes honest, sane and intelligent people will tend to become a paranoid hive of fools. This brings us to “Ask a Radfem,” a Tumlbr blog that describe its purpose thus:

This blog exists to bridge a gap between people with honest questions about radical feminism, and radical feminists with something to say.

Let’s meet a few of the site’s contributors, shall we?

  • Ash is a fat, creative writer, lesbian radical feminist from Australia who aspires to be a women’s health nurse. She is a gender abolitionist, is anti-kink culture and pro the destruction of the porn and prostitution industries – but supports porn actresses and prostitutes themselves.
  • Cammy is a white-passing American woman from a Puerto Rican household. A bisexual radical feminist in the Southern U.S., she focuses on lesbians, childfreedom, gender and sex industry abolition, religious apostates and the poor. She is an atheist and a survivor of trauma from emotional abuse, molestation and rape dealing with C-PTSD, anxiety and depression. Past experiences include BDSM, polyamory, self-harming, abortion, an abusive marriage, Christianity and Islam.
  • Blossom is an outreach worker from Canada. Her passion lies in harm reduction, outreach, & housing initiatives with people experiencing addiction & homelessness. She is a de-transitioned lesbian who lived “as male” from 2004-2011 and has experienced the process of transition and eventual de-transition with the help of mental health professionals and family. . . . She is also a former webcam girl and behind-the-scenes employee of various adult websites. She focuses on gender abolition, mental health, & lesbian activism.
  • Lauren (Lo) is a 17-year-old white-passing Chicana from Southern California. Her career aspiration is to work against internet crimes against children for either local or federal law enforcement. She identifies as bisexual and is open about her struggle with anxiety disorder.
  • R4df3m is a no-nonsense fat, disabled, bisexual radical feminist from Portland, Oregon who does not mince words. A former sex worker and abuse survivor, she speaks primarily about the harms of the sex industry and the realities of sex based oppression. As a bisexual radical woman in a heterosexual marriage she addresses the unique intersections of straight passing privilege and the abuse inherent to heterosexual relationships.

It’s an all-star lineup of feminist kooks. You could not assemble such a crew of weirdos by accident. The pattern is not random. Crazy movements attract crazy people. Here is one of the more seemingly sane contributors to “Ask a Radfem”:

Alisha M. is a feminist blogger, writer, musician, and poet, from the Southern United States. She is focused on gender abolition, women’s media, health, spirituality and activism for women with mental illness.

Feminism = “activism for women with mental illness.” Thanks for the concise definition, Alisha! Now let’s get to the big question:

Can/how a male promote radical feminism?
Listening. Really listening and being involved. Listening. This is something I’m trying to explain to my male friends who by some stroke of “altruism” really want to help be better allies. Just listen. Listen with empathy and emotions, be human, be vulnerable . . . accept silence on your part and accept sometimes being wrong.
-Alisha

In other words, SHUT UP.

Or applaud the feminist’s courage for killing her baby:

I couldn’t bring another monster into the world. We already have enough enemies as it is.

That’s from an article with the empowering feminist headline, “I Aborted My Baby — Because it was a Boy.”

Feminism is organized insanity. Why be merely crazy, when you can turn your mental illness into a political movement?




 

 

Comments

183 Responses to “The First Rule of Feminism”

  1. Ned McFury
    January 29th, 2015 @ 8:47 pm

    Sometimes I think feminist arguments are intentionally flawed in order to incite rebuttal by virtue of its ease, thereby leading to the inevitable screaming match between two genders who would often like each other if left to their own devices. Rank gender-baiting, in other words.

  2. Individualist6_z44
    January 29th, 2015 @ 8:52 pm

    “Feminist…gender abolition…”

    Am I the only one who sees the contradiction there?

  3. robertstacymccain
    January 29th, 2015 @ 8:55 pm

    In feminist theory, “gender” is part of a hierarchical system that oppresses women.

  4. concern00
    January 29th, 2015 @ 8:56 pm

    It would be fun for men and all of their inventions and contributions to society to go on strike for a day or two. Perhaps we could all just do a John Galt.

  5. robertstacymccain
    January 29th, 2015 @ 9:00 pm

    Right. All those computer geeks who developed the software for Tumblr? Patriarchal oppressors!

  6. Jeanette Victoria
    January 29th, 2015 @ 9:05 pm

    Pure insanity, sadly crazy irrational emoting creepiness seem to be the default these days

  7. Individualist6_z44
    January 29th, 2015 @ 9:05 pm

    I get that, and I know it’s insane and there’s no sense to be made from it, but still…

    If “gender” is such an oppressive patriarchal construct, why identify yourself by a “gendered” term like feminist, and constantly talk about your “gender” and being a woman as being the center of everything?

    It’s self-defeating. (As so much leftist pseudo-intellectual nonsense is.)

  8. Jeanette Victoria
    January 29th, 2015 @ 9:06 pm

    Gender is a term use to make sure verb and noun match in romance languages. The whackos hijacked that word too

  9. The First Rule of Feminism | Living in Anglo-America
    January 29th, 2015 @ 9:09 pm
  10. Individualist6_z44
    January 29th, 2015 @ 9:12 pm

    Yep. (Not just Romance languages though.)

    Gender is a linguistic concept; biological entities like human beings have sex.

  11. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    January 29th, 2015 @ 9:16 pm

    But of course, just ask Bruce Jenner.

  12. Jeanette Victoria
    January 29th, 2015 @ 9:17 pm

    I don’t remember gender in Russian or Arabic but I learned Russian by living in Kiev

  13. Jeanette Victoria
    January 29th, 2015 @ 9:20 pm

    LOL the loons really like Tumblr

  14. Mm
    January 29th, 2015 @ 9:23 pm

    YES. Thanks for stating this simple concept so clearly.

  15. Mm
    January 29th, 2015 @ 9:24 pm

    Yes. You and McCain should compare your list of deranged stalkers. It seems you have a few in common.

  16. Jeanette Victoria
    January 29th, 2015 @ 9:30 pm

    And they are all on Tumblr 🙂

  17. Mm
    January 29th, 2015 @ 9:32 pm

    Particularly irritating is this “white passing” Hispanic crap. Hispanics, like Italians, the French, etc., are historically WHITE Europeans or descended from them. “Latino” refers to a geographical area, and can be a member of any race, like saying “American.” If you are a “white passing” Chicana, you are white. Period.

  18. Mm
    January 29th, 2015 @ 9:33 pm

    That whole thing is just too, too weird.

  19. Jeanette Victoria
    January 29th, 2015 @ 9:33 pm

    Yeah I’m one of those “white Hispanics”

  20. Individualist6_z44
    January 29th, 2015 @ 9:38 pm

    I think Hebrew has a simple masculine/feminine distinction, so I would imagine Arabic does as well (though it could vary among dialects).

    Actually, English is highly oversimplified in this regard.

  21. kilo6
    January 29th, 2015 @ 9:40 pm

    What could ever go wrong with giving the coercive power of the state over to such people??

    Anyone?

  22. Mm
    January 29th, 2015 @ 9:40 pm

    You, me, Cameron Diaz, Ricky Ricardo, Caesar Romero, Rita Hayworth….

  23. Mm
    January 29th, 2015 @ 9:41 pm

    For some reason, my reply seems to have ended up above your reply….

  24. Adobe_Walls
    January 29th, 2015 @ 9:45 pm

    That’s still a contradiction.

  25. Adobe_Walls
    January 29th, 2015 @ 9:54 pm

    ”It’s self-defeating”
    Under the right circumstances fatally so. I suppose we can take some small comfort in that.
    Faster please.

  26. Daniel Freeman
    January 29th, 2015 @ 9:59 pm

    It looks like a contradiction on the surface, but it really isn’t. Feminism is not mere gynocentrism; even chivalry is gynocentric. Feminism is Marxism in a dress. It is Statism, so they need to destroy the family, which gives people an alternate support.

    Therefore, unlike traditionalists, feminists care more about women that won’t form families than ones that will. There are even some that are against the Vagina Monologues, because that show isn’t fair to women that don’t have one — and if that statement makes sense to you, then I’m sorry.

  27. Southern Air Pirate
    January 29th, 2015 @ 10:02 pm

    A couple of things.
    1. Learned this from a RadFem friend of my wife.This RadFem is 50 and been chronically “under employed” (to use her word) because of her Tokophobia. What is Tokophobia? Fear of pregnancy and child birth. She has a degree in social philosophy specializing in woman’s issues. So she has been living on the tax payer dole and only able to work in certain other service industries where there are a thousand other folks with similar wasted degrees. She hates the patricarhal government but sure as hell loves those government checks of the social net. Oh and here is a linky to an abstract on this disorder: http://m.bjp.rcpsych.org/content/176/1/83.abstract
    So I wonder how many RadFems or media Fems like Marcotte or Dunham who hate pregnancy, actually have this condition. I don’t know if it’s in DSM, but it’s an interesting thing I learned and every Fem that I have seen who claims to be pro abortion doesn’t have this mental issue.

    2. How can you be pro sex workers but want to destroy sex work? Is that like being for blue collar jobs but wanting to destroy heavy industry jobs in a town?

    3. I have recently seen the RadFem shut folks down while trying to have a reasonable debate over the reclassification in Seattle of trafficking in persons. It was an interesting schism, there was one side that was all about legalization of trafficking and another side was all about reduction of violence against women. It was amazing bit of schism.

    4. Finally notice how many of these folks claim abuse? I wonder how many of them are active in alternative religious practices (Wiccan or druidism or some bawlderized eastern religion or similar) and how many are active in the BDSM community either online or locally. You wonder if they haven’t found the ability to forgive and get love again after the “abuse” and how much of this abuse has just been parents telling these jokers to grow up and act like the adults they need to be instead of the toddlers they want to act like?

  28. Adobe_Walls
    January 29th, 2015 @ 10:02 pm

    We’re learning more and more about that every day aren’t we?

  29. Southern Air Pirate
    January 29th, 2015 @ 10:05 pm

    Oh and obviously these folks aren’t read up on the latest theories of thier gender oppression. Since the use of written words and alphabet is designed to oppress the women. So shouldn’t they not be writing at all or is this just the hypocritical stance of this social philosophy?
    http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/03/17/shlain-alphabet-goddess/

  30. Daniel Freeman
    January 29th, 2015 @ 10:08 pm

    We’re sexes, not genders. Words precede thoughts. Deny their terms or you will lose before you start, like kids letting the habitual cheater set the rules of the game.

  31. Adobe_Walls
    January 29th, 2015 @ 10:10 pm

    It’s just that they’re running out of things to whine about.

  32. Southern Air Pirate
    January 29th, 2015 @ 10:19 pm

    The book is about 17 years old. It was originally published in 1998-99 time frame.

  33. Fred_Z
    January 29th, 2015 @ 10:20 pm

    Oh well, they’re not like Gauss, Fermat or Newton, in fact they’re dumber’n a barrel of hoe handles, and nasty to boot, but even so we’re obliged to love them.

    Nicht Wahr?

    There are no deserving poor, there are no agreeable leftist/fembots. Christ made it pretty clear that we are to love obnoxious assholes. It’s tough, some days.

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    January 29th, 2015 @ 10:22 pm

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  35. Ned McFury
    January 29th, 2015 @ 10:25 pm

    Well, “rank sex-baiting” doesn’t have the same connotation, but have it your way. I’ve already lost anyway so it’s nothing to me.

  36. Daniel Freeman
    January 29th, 2015 @ 10:28 pm

    2. How can you be pro sex workers but want to destroy sex work? Is that like being for blue collar jobs but wanting to destroy heavy industry jobs in a town?

    Pretty close! It’s like being pro-worker and anti-employment. It’s literally communist. No, seriously, those kind of people don’t even take “godless commie” as an insult.

  37. Isa
    January 29th, 2015 @ 10:34 pm

    of course it’s Tumblr: your one-stop shop for whining, feminism, and other mental disorders. i avoid that site like the plague whenever necessary.

  38. Daniel Freeman
    January 29th, 2015 @ 10:38 pm

    When you put it that way, there is a certain infelicity to the term…

  39. M. Thompson
    January 29th, 2015 @ 10:45 pm

    You had me with Miss Hayworth.

  40. Adobe_Walls
    January 29th, 2015 @ 11:12 pm

    I’d never heard of it before a few days ago. I suspect it didn’t get much traction then. The fact that it’s 17 years old tends to support my point as I see it. Claiming that written language oppresses women isn’t exactly a golden oldie. Similarly, Hollywood’s penchant for reboots and remakes isn’t a testament to it’s creativity.

  41. Fail Burton
    January 30th, 2015 @ 12:45 am

    I’m trying to imagine what kind of person I’d be if I regularly singled out women for rhetorical attacks that were always negative. What would I be if I defined women who talked about any activity I deemed a male invention as “womensplaining” my industrial base that produces everything from women’s clothing to table salt back at me.

    I really can’t imagine what kind of women-hating nutcase I’d have to be to have such a phobia and disdain for half the people on the planet. What surprises me is how successful these mental cases have been in mainstreaming their obvious psychosis into the public arena. The Twitter feeds of “feminists” in the science fiction community I followed until recently read like truly disturbed people, the kind I’ve never personally known in my life. The reason for that is simple: they suck fun right out of any room they’re in. Lord help anyone who has to work or go to school with such people.

    I’m guessing they’re close to statistical zero of all people but the internet and lack of real editors means what used to be consigned to some nutty diary under a pillow is now thrown onto Twitter and crazy fem blogs together with ready and waiting lesbian rhetoric refined over half a century that explains how men and being straight is like being under occupation by flesh-eating aliens from Arcturus.

  42. Fail Burton
    January 30th, 2015 @ 12:47 am

    A paranoid’s dream: even the language you speak is out to get you. Why aren’t more psychiatrists speaking out about what they see?

  43. Finrod Felagund
    January 30th, 2015 @ 12:56 am

    There’s an unbelievable amount of porn on tumblr.

  44. Fail Burton
    January 30th, 2015 @ 12:57 am

    That Marxism stuff is a shill. Radfems want to destroy the family because in French Queer Theory the “normative” is a type of Jim Crow for women. It not only shackles lesbian feminists but those feminists claim to speak for all heterosexual women who are so stupid they don’t realize their oppression. Heterosexuality is “performative” as in a fake disguise society has put on to benefit men. It is a paranoid dream come true.

    The “normative” and the “performative” are the twin cornerstones of radical gay feminism. Everything they preach rises from that; oppression and the mask that enables that oppression. Once you understand that and add in the “intersectional” race/colonialism part, every word of so-called “political correctness” makes sense. It’s no coincidence a magazine recently had Simone de Beauvoir and Kimberle Crenshaw as the 2 most influential feminists of the last 100 years. The idea no woman is born but instead “created” plus the racial privilege aspect is today’s radfem 101.

  45. Fail Burton
    January 30th, 2015 @ 1:02 am

    I disagree: they’re flawed because they were constructed by self-serving crazy people. What cogent philosophy maintains heterosexuality is a false construct that must be “cured” which would then entail the same view of lesbianism? Instead, to offer a “cure” for lesbianism is to be a bigot. So feminists rightly accuse themselves of bigotry while calling for their own extinction. Sounds nuts to me.

  46. M. Thompson
    January 30th, 2015 @ 1:06 am

    Where isn’t there an unbelievable amount of porn on the internet?

  47. M. Thompson
    January 30th, 2015 @ 1:07 am

    It is the language that came about so Norman men at arms could properly seduce Anglo-Saxon pub wenches barmaids in a common language.

  48. Daniel Freeman
    January 30th, 2015 @ 1:18 am

    I just had to look her up to see what she had to do with what you’re talking about, so I saw that “Intersectionality – the theory of how different types of discrimination interact – has brought law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw global attention.”

    And I was done. That’s it. I have a bottle of wine and nothing that needs urgent doing tonight, and I’m not ruining it by reading any further.

  49. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    January 30th, 2015 @ 1:28 am

    If only the first rule of feminism followed the first rule of fight club…you do not talk about fight club.

  50. Fail Burton
    January 30th, 2015 @ 1:30 am

    It is not irrational from their point of view but a highly organized set of very simple beliefs. Heterosexuality is oppressive, heterosexuality is fake and so can be “cured,” the intersectional race/privilege aspect exacerbates the first two. That’s it in a nutshell. All else arises from that. It is the meticulously worked out paranoia typical of people who find one another. At some point there were literally a handful of “leaders” who kicked the whole thing off. It is an extremely attractive sociopathy for women who have a common mindset. Given the sheen of academia it has possessed from the outset, it also has a great deal of surface credibility. Given these women live in a rather pastoral world of human rights and ease of making money, there is no real world check on their delusions. In fact in today’s world they are egged on and even admired. What insane member of the KKK wouldn’t like to have that type of star or hero status? George Orwell’s 1984 was built from the ground up to fight this lack of perception, to no avail when it comes to liberals looking for fights they won a long time ago but without which they cease to exist. A perfect storm of stupidity – a perfect alliance.