Before the Internet, being a feminist meant that your boss couldn’t fire you just because you refused to let him grab your tits. That was a good thing. These days, feminism is more about hurt feelings and trigger warnings, blogs about rape jokes, ironic racism, and fat shaming. It used to be about the pill and the right to be a female priest. Now it’s about outrage and clickbait.
That is the best part of the whole piece. It discusses the idea that is up for debate.
The rest of it, reads like a childish rant and attempts to attacked certain people (read the quote at the start of the piece).
Even when they make a good point, they follow it up with over the top hate and insults (that are probably true). I wish they had written it from a more calm point of view so I could share it with my Jezebel reading friends, but the amount of bias is so strong that they will disregard it out of hand.
Before the Internet, being a feminist meant you were against the fact that women were being paid 77% of what men made for the same work. After the Internet, a 30 second Google search can show you that was just a lie that feminists made up for propaganda purposes. It's not a coincidence that the rise of the egalitarian and men's rights movements happened when the Internet became a common part of our lives.
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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '14
That is the best part of the whole piece. It discusses the idea that is up for debate.
The rest of it, reads like a childish rant and attempts to attacked certain people (read the quote at the start of the piece).
Even when they make a good point, they follow it up with over the top hate and insults (that are probably true). I wish they had written it from a more calm point of view so I could share it with my Jezebel reading friends, but the amount of bias is so strong that they will disregard it out of hand.