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Has the term feminism run its course?

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OTB,
When Feminism or any other "progressive" school of thought hits the "glass ceiling" called human nature it doesn't slack off the pressure, the pressure is just diverted to the sides and downward.
You can see it everywhere, the only people they can recruit these days are the damaged, the weak and the irredeemably narcissistic and these fruitcakes spend all their time attacking their own constituents and powerless, low caste men.
Illiberal forms of social organisation are not limited by human nature, they're enhanced by it, that's why progressive causes can never be competitive, never convert a conservative electorate and why their activist networks perpetually split and splinter.
Posted by Jay Of Melbourne, Monday, 10 November 2014 6:03:38 AM
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I don't know what you guys are complaining about.

It's a masculine system and it's trundling along and doing its thing.

The females decided, once they were let off the leash in order to partake of the consumer banquet, that they'd stump up for a few other privileges.

They're on board and the juggernaut is full steam ahead - all together as one.

What did you expect they'd do...under the circumstances?

Go out to work, do some shopping, then sit tight and shut their mouths while doing a spot of knitting?
Posted by Poirot, Monday, 10 November 2014 7:31:21 AM
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Poirot,
We're just complaining about capital F Feminism, not women, we love women and have a patriarchal interest in their success and well being.
Australia in 2014 provides practically limitless opportunities for personal growth,individual success and group development, it doesn't need anachronistic social movements based on flawed 18th century philosophy.

This comment from a blog I follow sums it up:
http://alternative-right.blogspot.com/2014/10/gamergate-reveals-leftist-mo-of-passive.html

"They find a healthy host, infect it with commentators, and then attack
it when it refuses to accept those commentators as its original voice
and purpose."

Well put. I think this speaks to the larger issue of modern leftism in general. It is a method for the weak to exploit the strong.

In the one case these poor young feminists have been brainwashed with propaganda and spoiled with man-made convenience their entire lives. They don't know who they are or what they want. But their man-hating programming goes into overdrive when they see men enjoying something without them; they get jealous and have the vindictive need to infiltrate it, --bring it down if necessary. It really is irritating. You just can't believe a word they say and must never give in to their subversive demands
Posted by Jay Of Melbourne, Monday, 10 November 2014 8:09:11 AM
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JoM,

But why are you surprised and/or irritated?

Women have adapted to the new paradigm.

They either blend in and climb the ladder or they openly compete for kudos in such a system.

You can't have your cake and eat it too.

Why wouldn't a movement arise to take on men at their own game?

Under the circumstances...
Posted by Poirot, Monday, 10 November 2014 8:25:28 AM
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Poirot,
Being effectively the last faction standing Feminism is the face of the Left, the counterproductive, bullying, rent seeking Left which in the absence of an authentic right with whom to joust just flail their arms and stamp their feet and spend their lives provoking fights with people who have no power or a stake in the staus quo.
People shouldn't lose their jobs or have their visa cancelled because some group of middle class undergraduates (and adults who should know better) all hopped up on their own inflated sense of self importance create a stink on social media over what such a person might say in public or think in private.
If this nonsense stayed on the internet or on the campus quadrangle no one would care but ordinary, harmless people's lives are being, if not exactly ruined disrupted by this so called "activism'.
Posted by Jay Of Melbourne, Monday, 10 November 2014 8:59:01 AM
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Poirot,
I forgot to preface that post with "This isn't your mother's Feminism", what's being promoted as Feminism today is a type of intolerant,fundamentalist dogma based mainly on conspiracy theories or assumptions about the world informed by flawed logic and pseudo science.
Sound familiar?
It's on a par with the 9-11 Truthers and the people who think psychopaths and the "Nazi International" run the New World Order.
As I said, if it confined itself to university clubs and the internet no one would care but because it has the ear of influential "adult" feminists in the media and politics who have an eye for the main chance so to speak the ratbag fringe gets far more oxygen that it deserves.
Posted by Jay Of Melbourne, Monday, 10 November 2014 9:10:55 AM
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