The reason feminism is dangerous is that it rewrites history, recasting men as oppressors instead of builders.
When you make the hero the villain, I'd say you have a problem with your ideology.
Men were and are creators because of a mix of brains and brawn and an instinctive knack for teamwork. Feminists claim that if only men hadn't spent all their time holding women down, women would have created civilizations.
They don't realize that before the Industrial Revolution, both men and women had to struggle to survive far more than they do today. So men built things to make life easier. When it got easier for women (circa 1950, with modern conveniences we still use), women had more time on their hands and used that time to wonder why they were not part of the world men built.
That's when feminism as we know it really took hold. Women sat in safe suburban houses while their husbands were commuting to jobs that drove them to earlier graves, and the women called that oppression.
When that schtick started to wear thin, they set their sights on demonizing male sexuality -- and had allies in the Catholic Church and media. Their mis-reading of history bled into school curricula, which became female-driven and has had a disastrous effect on the education of boys.
If you think all of this doesn't affect you, you're wrong.
Women in the US now resent men as a matter of course since they're taught that men are the bad guys of history. This affects marriages and day-to-day relations.
The media is like a machine, making sure to keep that resentment high. The show "Mad Men" looks back at history through the lens of "oppression" instead of "progress." It's on the air because in case women stop resenting men for a second (now that women dominate college and are getting the cushy jobs), it can remind them of how horrible men were -- not how resourceful they were. Call it retro-resentment.
When you make the hero the villain, I'd say you have a problem with your ideology.
Men were and are creators because of a mix of brains and brawn and an instinctive knack for teamwork. Feminists claim that if only men hadn't spent all their time holding women down, women would have created civilizations.
They don't realize that before the Industrial Revolution, both men and women had to struggle to survive far more than they do today. So men built things to make life easier. When it got easier for women (circa 1950, with modern conveniences we still use), women had more time on their hands and used that time to wonder why they were not part of the world men built.
That's when feminism as we know it really took hold. Women sat in safe suburban houses while their husbands were commuting to jobs that drove them to earlier graves, and the women called that oppression.
When that schtick started to wear thin, they set their sights on demonizing male sexuality -- and had allies in the Catholic Church and media. Their mis-reading of history bled into school curricula, which became female-driven and has had a disastrous effect on the education of boys.
If you think all of this doesn't affect you, you're wrong.
Women in the US now resent men as a matter of course since they're taught that men are the bad guys of history. This affects marriages and day-to-day relations.
The media is like a machine, making sure to keep that resentment high. The show "Mad Men" looks back at history through the lens of "oppression" instead of "progress." It's on the air because in case women stop resenting men for a second (now that women dominate college and are getting the cushy jobs), it can remind them of how horrible men were -- not how resourceful they were. Call it retro-resentment.