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In reply to the discussion: Study: Everyone hates environmentalists and feminists [View all]BainsBane
(53,032 posts)and that Svyatski info confirmed it. Telling the Brazilian women that they were too fat to participate might work for you, but not for women's rights. Telling Muslim women that there problem was Islam itself rather than patriarchy is perfect for Western men unwilling to question or relinquish their own privilege, but demonstrated utter hatred for Muslim women themselves.
When the criteria for participating in a so-called feminist movement is the same as working at a strip club, something is wrong. When men who show their absolute opposition to virtually every aspect of women's rights--from equal pay for equal work, to campaigns against domestic violence and rape--fawned all over FEMEN, anyone with a functioning brain stem knew something was wrong. It's obvious why men like you liked them. It required nothing of you and gave you a club to beat on women working for equal rights. Plus, you didn't have to look at any old or fat women, and that's really what's important. Pretty fucking transparent.
FEMEN was the misogynists favorite group. That's why some of us dislike FEMEN, not the women themselves but the motley crew supporting them. And when a man thinks he has the fucking nerve to lecture women about what feminism is, that tells me he has no respect for women's rights at all. More that that, he obviously doesn't like women enough to bother listening to them.
Next we'll be hearing about how sex trafficking of 12 year olds empowers young girls.
There really is no low that some won't sink to in an effort to deny half of the world equal rights.