timetravellingbunny

So I occasionally stumbled onto this video on Youtube, since it was under 'related videos' to some videos about feminism. www.youtube.com/watch This is a woman ranting about feminism and "male disposability" - i.e. the "women and children first" mentality. The thing is, I agree with her on a lot of things, in that I despise the "women and children first" mentality, I despise the idea that women should be protected more (both because I hate the idea that men's lives are less worth and the idea that women are weaker and belong to the same category as children). But the problem is, she's blaming feminism, of all things, for that - not the patriarchal gender roles, even though she admits that these views have existed for centuries - far before feminism even existed, and that the origin of those ideas are patriarchal gender roles that deem men strong and capable while women are weak and helpless. Which I told her in my comment. The other big mistake is that she's talking about this mentality as universal, ignoring the fact that chivalry is a Western concept, and that there are many examples of societies that value men's lives much higher and treat women's lives as disposable. And then at some point in the video, she actually talks about female genital mutilation as if it's the same thing as male circumcision. Yeah, that's right.

But if you make the mistake of pointing those things out, you'll soon learn that the comments section is a den of the whiny, entitled, self-centered misogynists who feel that they're terribly oppressed by women/feminists, who'll come after you, calling you a cunt and telling you that you hate men. (You don't hate feminism = you hate men.)  It's not that I haven't met lots of sexist people, but this is still new to me.

( I didn't make those up )