Where have all the good feminists gone?

So, Katy Perry self declares as non-feminist it seems.  Who knew?  But since is such a hero to young feminists everywhere, there has actually been some handwringing about this sort of thing. In fact, according to this Slate XX article this is becoming, as they say, a 'thing':

Last week, Katy Perry joined Melissa Leo, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, Marissa Mayer, and Taylor Swift to become the latest powerful woman (how far can you projectile-ejaculate frosting from your nipples?) to denounce the feminist movement.

The tone of the article follows the predictable trajectory, bemoaning the 'fear' women have of calling themselves feminists (apparently words like 'disgust' or 'revulsion' never occur to them), and wonders where the feminist brand went off the rails.

Now, according to good ol' Amanda Hess, the real issue is that feminists are too dismissive of newbies, even hostile.  And that may in fact be true, who can say?  But a more telling reason might just be contained more in the comments than the article itself.



The first response on my screen right now comes from one Selene_Cusping, who intriguingly positions her feelings thus:

I stopped calling myself a feminist in university when I sat alongside some of those radical feminists and saw just how misandrist and illogical they were. I started calling myself a humanist. 

 Now, don't go getting all excited, there's more to the story here it seems.  Seems Selene here is a Born-Again Feminist(tm), and even goes to the trouble of explaining her reasoning:

No, I began calling myself a feminist again because while I know that there are issues that impact and put men and boys at a disadvantage in the world -- and I do speak up about them regularly -- women and girls both in North America and around the world face a much larger number of issues and their complexity and impact are much, much more serious.
 

Much more serious, complex, and large?  Wow, that's terrible!  All this time I thought 'women's issues' were largely fictional propaganda setpieces used to bleed yet more tax money to special interest groups.  My bad.  Let's hear what these issues are:

I'll stop calling myself a feminist when women aren't routinely murdered in honour killings, when they aren't circumcised, when they aren't denied food, education and healthcare because of their sex, when they have the right to birth control, reproductive health and abortion, when they aren't routinely abused or murdered by their husbands, when there are NOT religions (today) debating whether women have souls, when they can serve in the military or study what they like in school, when they are not sold into sexual slavery by their own parents, when they aren't forced to wear burquas, when they can speak freely without being arrested, when they can be religious leaders, etc., etc., etc.

 ....whoah.  I missed something here.  This 'former humanist' must have her wires crossed or something.  Let's see...

Men are ALSO routinely murdered in 'honor killings', but the mainstream media will not report it as such - much like 'trapped men' becomes 'trapped miners', but the phrase 'including women and children' is used as often as possible.  It's called the 'Lace Curtain' of information.

Little boys are ROUTINELY circumcised in the US and Canada, and the foreskins used in commercial products like face cream and skin grafts - boys aren't just circumcised, their mutilation has been industrialised, and is highly profitable.

Men and boys are denied food, healthcare, and education all the time - as a matter of government policy at feminist urging.  The UN denied food to males in Haiti, and labelled it 'humanitarian'.  Male specific problems, for example Prostate Cancer, face shrinking funding - and worsening outcomes - without fanfare.  And with Affirmative Action, a heavily female-dominated (both as student and staff) education system, and such delights as Dear Colleague letters promoting a virulently anti male atmosphere throughout education, I think it's safe to say women have nothing at all to complain about there.  But men do.

Men do not have a birth control option more modern than their grandfathers had, and none that aren't obtrusive or pleasure deadening.  They also do not have reproductive rights of any kind, other than the right to say 'no'.  Even sperm used from a discarded condom can be used to impregnate and obligate a man to a lifetime of child support.

Men are abused in nearly equal measure to women in DV situations, and are often arrested under 'Primary Aggressor' laws (another feminist invention) even when they are the victims.  There are no shelters that will house, or arrange to house, abused men - except in a tiny minority of cities.

While I admit I know nothing about religions debating whether women have souls, I also believe freedom of religion means you can find a new church if you don't like it.

Men might not be sold into sexual slavery QUITE as often as women, but they sure are subject to indentured servitude to any and all women who had children by them.  At gunpoint.  By the State (you know, the cops and stuff).

As for freedom of speech...anything coming out of a feminist's mouth on that score is a laughable hypocrisy on it's face (see: University of Toronto).

Now, this appalling lack of understanding of mens issues would be unsurprising coming from Amanda Hess.  Being a devout feminist, Hess has never made any bones about her misandric outlook and derisive attitude to male suffering.

But Selene here declares she spent time as a 'humanist', disgusted with the man hater radfems.  She declares an enlightened attitude...that she 'cares about men'.  Just like all the other 'good feminists'.

The encouraging thing is that women are starting not to buy the bullshit sold by women like Selene.  The hypocritical ugliness of Feminism is glaringly obvious these days - ESPECIALLY when 'egalitarians' or 'former' feminists like Selene here try to show them the light with such displays of understanding and compassion - and ideological blindness.

It seems the more feminists try to prove their bona fides, the more obvious their hypocrisy becomes.  And the more feminists try to position themselves in the middle, the more ridiculous their arguments have to be.  So, the less radical they are, the less intelligent they sound, and the more obvious their man hatred becomes. 

The irony.  It burns.