Julie Bindel Is Right: Marriage Can Never Be Feminist (So Don’t Marry a Feminist)

Posted on | June 1, 2016 | 40 Comments

“Marriage is not about equality. It’s about perpetuating male privilege.”
— Julie Bindel, U.K. Guardian, May 25

Julie Bindel is a British feminist notorious for saying that all males should be rounded up and put “in some kind of camp.” She is a radical lesbian who is against heterosexuality, per se. This anti-male ideology is endorsed by many leading feminists, including Professor Charlotte Bunch, Professor Marilyn Frye, Professor Sheila Jeffreys and others. As Professor Susan M. Shaw and Professor Janet Lee declare in their textbook Women’s Voices, Feminist Visions, all women are oppressed by “heteropatriarchy,” a system of “inequality and privilege.”

Quite obviously, therefore, marriage is incompatible with feminism, and Julie Bindel wants to make sure everybody understands this:

Dress it up, subvert it, deny it all you want — marriage is an institution that has curtailed women’s freedom for centuries. But instead of rejecting the patriarchal and outdated tradition, some feminists have decided to “reclaim” it. We may have progressed since the Industrial Revolution, where Mary Wollstonecraft described marriage as “little more than a state of legal prostitution,” but let’s not kid ourselves. Even today, marriage is not about equality. It’s about perpetuating male privilege. Being given away by your father may seem cute and romantic, but it stems from a time when women were seen literally as their father’s, and then their husband’s, property. The majority of brides still opt for a white gown, but the implication that brides should be virgins is both ludicrous and insulting to women. That a female who has had sex is somehow spoiled goods goes against everything feminists claim to stand for. I know feminists who have taken their husband’s name because they say it’s easier. Easier than changing your personal email address, utilities bills and bank account details, I suppose. You’re basically being branded, so anyone who sees your name knows immediately who you belong to. Even if a woman does away with all these traditions, accept it — marriage can never be a feminist act. It has formed the backdrop to women’s oppression for centuries and it continues to do so. Forced marriage, child brides and polygamy all show how human rights of women and girls all too often go hand-in-hand with marriage. It was not until 1991 that rape in marriage was made a criminal offense in England and Wales, and today it is still perfectly legal for a man to rape his wife in 47 countries worldwide. If you want to get marriage, then just get on with it, but please stop pretending that because you’re a feminist, it’s some kind of subversive statement. I love Snoop Dogg despite his woman-hating lyrics, but I don’t pretend that listening to him is a feminist act, and women should stop pretending that marriage is anything other than a tool for their own oppression. Anyway, as the late human rights lawyer Paula Ettelbrick said, “Marriage is a great institution, if you like living in institutions.”

You can argue with Julie Bindel about the details of her anti-marriage rant, if you wish, but I never argue with feminists. All I do is quote them, so that everyone understands what I mean when I say Feminism Is a Totalitarian Movement to Destroy Civilization as We Know It.

Of course, it would be impossible for feminists to be oppressed by marriage, if men did not make the mistake of marrying feminists. Honestly, I can’t imagine why any man would do such a foolish thing:

Never talk to a feminist.
Guys: Learn to take a hint. Learn to walk away.
If a woman tells you she is a feminist, say nothing and walk away.
No feminist wants to hear what a man has to say, and life is too short to waste your time taking to feminists. Just walk away.
Leave feminists alone, and then they can complain about that.

Avoiding feminists, however, does not mean that a man is not oppressing feminists, to whom the very existence of males is oppressive.

Can't wait to tell my wife she's been perpetuating male privilege for 27 years. https://t.co/ai6PCllmJ6 @bindelj pic.twitter.com/3xJ6xpyyLb

— FreeStacy (@Not_RSMcCain) May 30, 2016

Category: Marriage, Sex Trouble

Comments

40 Responses to “Julie Bindel Is Right: Marriage Can Never Be Feminist (So Don’t Marry a Feminist)”

Kirby McCain
June 1st, 2016 @ 9:31 pm

Julie Bindel is a British feminist notorious for saying that all males should be rounded up and put “in some kind of camp.”Failing that…
CrustyB
June 1st, 2016 @ 10:13 pm

As of June 2015, marriage no longer exists in the USA. So that old man has nothing to worry about.
concern00
June 1st, 2016 @ 10:20 pm

For the crime of perpetuating male privilege, my wife and I also stand guilty as charged.
kilo6
June 1st, 2016 @ 10:21 pm

I say Bindel is a ten catter.
Anyone at TOM want to run some over/under bets?
Evi L. Bloggerlady
June 1st, 2016 @ 10:39 pm

Be Happy = Don’t marry a feminist
jolly green
June 1st, 2016 @ 11:22 pm

“It’s about perpetrating male privilege”…yeah, it’s clear Bindel is an angry dyke who lives in the land of make-believe.
Fail Burton
June 1st, 2016 @ 11:54 pm

What does Bindel care? Her morbid fear of men and heterosexuality means kids aren’t even on her radar. If they were, they’d apparently be raised like the bastard sons of aristocracy sent out to India to make their way as best they can, adrift from an investment in their own country’s social fabric. We’ve seen where that leads. Look at the difference between numbers of looters after floods in New Orleans as opposed to Iowa. Neo-Nazis giving relationship advice to Jews is all this woman amounts to.
Fail Burton
June 1st, 2016 @ 11:58 pm

You mean assuming the malice of all men who ever lived is wrong?
get2djnow
June 2nd, 2016 @ 12:25 am

Sadly, I my second marriage was to a liberal, who turned out to be a rabid feminist (I was naive to think the two didn’t necessarily go together). Though I’m sad that she felt our children weren’t worth her effort, she has now moved to a future ex to whom she is still married. Maybe her fading looks will motivate her to try a little harder, but I find that rather unlikely, given the state of the judiciary and its penchant for awarding large sums of a mans earnings to an undeserving former spouse who didn’t support the financial familial goals in the first place.

Traditional wife = happy life.
Mike G.
June 2nd, 2016 @ 12:25 am

You’re way too low dude. I’d wager at least twenty and I bet her apartment smells like it too.
Lemuel Vargas
June 2nd, 2016 @ 12:26 am

“Marriage is not about equality. It’s about perpetuating male privilege.”
— Julie Bindel, U.K. Guardian, May 25
Yep, that would be to the advantage of all hot blooded hetero males who only wants to have sex w/ women like Julie w/out the consequences.
mole
June 2nd, 2016 @ 12:26 am

She not just mad, shes event horizon mad.
And i dont think Ive been to a worse swebsite than that one, Im assuming its a regular go-to for our host?

http://www.radfemcollective.org/news/2015/9/7/an-interview-with-julie-bindel

“..how do we dismantle gender?

We have to get rid of it. There is no point looking at reforming it. It would be like saying we could reform the Tory party. We just need to abolish and obliterate it.

We need to stop talking about it like it’s a thing. We need to start laughing at those that pretend that it has somehow replaced biological sex, and stop being afraid of pointing out that the two are completely different and that one actually doesn’t exist outside of male dominance and women’s subordination. Because all gender is, is an imposition of subordination on women, and the opposite of that of course is the dominance of men, who get privilege by being born male, and we get the opposite. So I think we have to just start laughing at it, and not by wearing a tutu and workmen’s boots. But by actually by saying, this thing is actually not real.

It is a bit like the Flat Earth theory. We will hopefully in years to come be laughing at the notion that we actually believed it was a tangible thing.”…
mole
June 2nd, 2016 @ 12:27 am

She wont be happy till she has ALL THE CATS!!!
mole
June 2nd, 2016 @ 12:29 am

will heterosexuality survive women’s liberation?

It won’t, not unless men get their act together, have their power taken from them and behave themselves. I mean, I would actually put them all in some kind of camp where they can all drive around in quad bikes, or bicycles, or white vans. I would give them a choice of vehicles to drive around with, give them no porn, they wouldn’t be able to fight – we would have wardens, of course! Women who want to see their sons or male loved ones would be able to go and visit, or take them out like a library book, and then bring them back.

I hope heterosexuality doesn’t survive, actually. I would like to see a truce on heterosexuality. I would like an amnesty on heterosexuality until we have sorted ourselves out. Because under patriarchy it’s shit.

And I am sick of hearing from individual women that their men are all right. Those men have been shored up by the advantages of patriarchy and they are complacent, they are not stopping other men from being shit.

I would love to see a women’s liberation that results in women turning away from men and saying: “when you come back as human beings, then we might look again.”
Joe Joe
June 2nd, 2016 @ 1:41 am

Actually. Milo debated her:
Fifty Ville
June 2nd, 2016 @ 4:43 am

Fat lesbians are just plain no fun.
Quartermaster
June 2nd, 2016 @ 5:14 am

“If you would be happy for the rest of your life
Never make a pretty woman your wife
From my personal point of view…
get an ugly girl to marry you….”
Dana
June 2nd, 2016 @ 5:16 am

I don’t think that Miss Bindel ever had to worry about turning down a marriage proposal.

It’s easy to be opposed to an institution you will never be invited to join.
Dana
June 2nd, 2016 @ 5:20 am

Heterosexuality has to survive. That great American philosopher, Sam Kinison, noted that we have only two choices: we can either love women, or suck a big dick. Given that the latter option is pretty repugnant to 98% of men . . . .
ChuckFinley
June 2nd, 2016 @ 5:28 am

The photos of Julie Bindel included with the article would seem to disprove that theory.
DSmith2
June 2nd, 2016 @ 6:06 am

Did you HAVE to paste her nauseating picture all over this? I thought you wanted donations?
journeymananalyst
June 2nd, 2016 @ 6:49 am

Future The Onion headline; “Feminists Succeed in Eliminating Humans, Only Lesbians Survive”
notaclue
June 2nd, 2016 @ 6:58 am

Radical feminism is an attempt to defeat nature. Nature always wins.
Dana
June 2nd, 2016 @ 7:07 am

How, I have to wonder, is marriage the subordination of women? Marriage is the institution through which we are supposed to reproduce the species. So, who is more greatly oppressed: the married woman rearing her children with the help and support of her husband, or the single woman rearing her children, all by her lonesome?
dtrumpet
June 2nd, 2016 @ 7:20 am

You beat me to it.
ridesdressage
June 2nd, 2016 @ 7:57 am

To All Feminists: GO AWAY. SHUT UP. WE. DON’T. CARE. TO. HEAR. YOUR. SOB. STORY. GO BE A FEMINIST and SHUT UP ABOUT IT ALREADY. NO. ONE. CARES.
marcus tullius cicero
June 2nd, 2016 @ 8:22 am

…Married with children for 41 years…Sooooo…
Dana
June 2nd, 2016 @ 8:33 am

I managed to marry a pretty one, and we’re still together after 37 years and 14 days. I think I did OK.
Dana
June 2nd, 2016 @ 8:35 am

I’m pretty sure that there would be consequences for any man who copulated with Miss Bindel.
Quartermaster
June 2nd, 2016 @ 8:39 am

I’m sure, but the song is hilarious.
@ImaCarNow
June 2nd, 2016 @ 9:26 am

…and everywhere they trod the piquant aroma of cat urine remains. Also, Trigglypuff.
RichFader
June 2nd, 2016 @ 9:34 am

When did Robbie Coltrane get a sex change?
Peregrine John
June 2nd, 2016 @ 9:49 am

Damn straight. This is a great series, but honestly, one image of Bindel is plenty on a given day. Putting me off my breakfast. And possibly lunch.
Dana
June 2nd, 2016 @ 10:02 am

Our esteemed host wrote:

As Professor Susan M. Shaw and Professor Janet Lee declare in their textbook Women’s Voices, Feminist Visions, all women are oppressed by “heteropatriarchy,” a system of “inequality and privilege.”

This is really quite a statement. How could men oppress women unless men were superior to women?
Victoria Howerton
June 2nd, 2016 @ 12:44 pm

I watched some of the debate between her and Milo in a clip below. I immediately learned two things: she speaks against Islamic misogyny (unlike most modern-day “feminists”), she claims to support free speech, she’s a target of neo-feminists, and Milo says he admires her. So, she may be an ugly lesbian, but she has got some good points to her.
Quartermaster
June 2nd, 2016 @ 3:14 pm

She looks like she would have been decent looking in her misspent youth.
Quartermaster
June 2nd, 2016 @ 3:15 pm

And you shall remain incarcerated in Marriage for the rest of your natural days.
Kirby McCain
June 2nd, 2016 @ 6:09 pm

A ten cat, double bagger.
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June 5th, 2016 @ 2:54 pm

[…] Julie Bindel Is Right: Marriage Can Never Be Feminist (So Don’t Marry a Feminist) Julie Bindel is a British feminist notorious for saying that all males should be rounded up and put “in some kind of camp.” She is a radical lesbian who is against heterosexuality, per se. This anti-male ideology is endorsed by many leading feminists, including Professor Charlotte Bunch, Professor Marilyn Frye, Professor Sheila Jeffreys and others. […]
robertstacymccain
June 7th, 2016 @ 9:20 pm

Something else: She recognizes transgenderism as a cult. So she is very consistent, which is true of other radical lesbians, including Sheila Jeffreys and Cathy Brennan, to name two similar examples.