History of Feminism
In reply to the discussion: If I Admit That ‘Hating Men’ Is a Thing, Will You Stop Turning It Into a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy? [View all]Moonwalk
(2,322 posts)Buddhists are not persecuted in this country either. Do you see them "bashed"? Why not? Well, probably because they aren't creating laws where everyone's kid has to pray in school or read up on creationism or that gays can't marry because their Bible says it's wrong. These laws are not created, by and large, by Buddhists or Jews or Hindus. They are created by large Christian churches with money and power and the desire to make their states/country more Christian. If a group of Orthodox Jews managed to pass a city law preventing any business from being open on Saturday, then you'd probably be rightly angry with the Jews of the city for doing that, even if not all the Jews had a part in it.
But we'll grant that "Christianity" as an institution is not creating these unfair laws, but rather certain Christians/demoninations are so all Christians should not be bashed for them.
However, if i"m reading you right, the contradiction seems to be on your part. You say if someone spits on you, you get to spit on them back. So if a self-proclaimed feminist spits on you, you get to spit on her. Fair enough. But you seem to be saying that if said feminist spits on you, you get to spit on all feminists--and all they believe in/whatever they have to say about our patriarchal system. Hm. Talk about privilege. You just said that people shouldn't bash Christians (or men I assume) because some are creating unfair laws. Yet you reserve the right to spit on all Feminists for what a few do to you?
And they're not even persecuting you with unfair laws. Have feminists creating laws which forbid you from getting, say, a vasectomy? A law that would apply only to men only and interfere with their health and family planning decisions? Or have women in power created a law which allows men to be paid less than women for doing the same job? Who has spit on you in a way that affected not just you personally, but every man in your state? I can certainly point to men in states passing restrictive abortion laws that affect all women in that state. Can you point to laws that affect all of your gender in the same way?
If not, how are the two modes of "spitting" on someone comparable?
There is no contradiction that I see in the essay. But I do see quite a few contradictions in what you're saying if I"m reading you right.