Jay

By ‘new social realities’, I meant how the major parties still make policies based on lingering patriarchal norms, e.g. male-breadwinner/single-income families and punishing women for being single mothers.

And I don’t think protest is dead in the water. It’s morphed into organisations like GetUp and Avaaz, which use social media and crowd funding, instead of street marches and placards

Jay

‘The reason I reject Feminism is because it infantilises women and if followed to the letter renders them more vulnerable to things like exploitation and sexual assault.’

OK, let me see if I got this right …

On that basis … because feminism encourages women to be financially independent and proactively control their own lives and personal safety - that ‘infantilises’ women!

Yet, the anti-feminist belief that women are happiest when being supported by their husbands and that men are hard-wired to lead and women are hard-wired to follow – that renders women ever so adult!

And the feminist challenge to draconian rape laws that make it almost impossible to convict a rapist, and that inhibit women from even reporting rape - that makes women ‘vulnerable’ to ‘sexual assault’!

And the feminist challenge to patriarchal cultural norms that objectify women’s faces and bodies, rather than valuing them for who they are and what they accomplish - that makes women ‘vulnerable’ to ‘exploitation’!

Yeah … white is black and black is white.

Honestly, if anti-feminists would just make a decent, logical argument once in a while, I’d be willing to take them more seriously. But everything I’ve seen them write and say so far is based purely on (lots of) disinformation and traditional gender prejudice.