Popular YouTubers such as Laci Green and the girl from Feminist Frequency used to be some of the people I looked up to. If you went into the deep archives of this blog, you can probably find several posts where I try and make sense of the Feminist ideas that I was trying to believe in.
But since then, I've taken steps into the real world, and it is nothing like what teenage me thought.
Feminism harps on the media for giving girls a false idea of what life looks like, but I have to point a finger at you, Feminsists, for giving the false ideas, not just to little girls, but little boys too.
As many of the popular Feminists are full grown adults, so they really should know better by now. The world they are trying to build is not just unrealistic, it's impossible, and I would appreciate it if they could pipe down for a while. Feminism made me an angry, loud-mouthed teenager. I had to fight every issue, and everything was an issue.
Don't believe me? Here's a few of the things I believed when I was a teen thanks to the angry activists.
1. All men are taught by our mysogynistic society to depreciate and sexually objectify women.
Kind of hard to follow, isn't it? That's a lot of big words to be throwing around. But I knew what it meant and I believed it. Since then, however, I have gotten married and had a son of my own, and I realized the truth about men; the really are obsessed with women and sex. They talk about boobs all the time. They make crass sex jokes constantly. But you know what? So do women. Of course we are obsessed with men and they are obsessed with women. It's how we are wired. How else could we get a mate?
2. Women are valued less in the work force than men.
There is literally no evidence that women in general make less money than men. All I can ever find is pie charts made by feminists who cite no sources, claiming that they make less than their male counterparts. From an employers standpoint, you are only going to think about what is going to advance your business more. If a man is better suited to that position, then obviously you are going to hire a man. If a woman has more qualifications and would be a better candidate then you would hire her. There are so many factors at play when it comes to being an employee that you can almost never generalize. Maybe that man that you claim makes more money is doing a better job than you. Maybe he has better qualifications. And if you think that your job caters to men more, go find a job that is going to be dominated by women.
3. Catcalling, coercion, and unwanted flirting are on the same level as rape, and all men do it.
This one is kind of huge. First of all, to put unwanted flirting on the same level as rape is insanity. Rape is a horrible and criminal act of violence against another person, unwanted flirting is just a minor annoyance. You can't tell people to stop victim blaming if you make literally every woman a victim. Second, women need to stop being so sensitive. If a man catcalls you, just keep walking and ignore him. If a man flirts with you continually, again, ignore him. And if someone tries to pressure you into having sex with them, you can always just say no. If you give in, even if you don't want to, you just gave consent, then it is not rape, it's consensual sex. You cannot claim that as rape.
4. Woman have it harder when walking alone or at bars/clubs.
First of all, literally anyone can be a target. Men and women both should travel in groups, as there is safety in numbers. You're just as likely to be jumped by a gang if you are a lone man. Yes, lone women make easier targets by lone men because we are physically not as strong and can't fight to get away as easy, but seriously anyone can be a target. And if you are a woman sitting alone at a bar, you may as well be wearing a sign that says 'flirt with me' because that is where a lot of people go to get laid. If you and whoever you've been flirting with are both drunk and you sleep together, then you're equally responsible. Everyone has to guard their drink at a club, everyone has to be careful going alone; there's creeps out there, end of story.
Feminism literally will take anything and call it an 'issue'. But I know from experience, it is tiring to spend your life angry and trying to 'change the world'.
There are a lot more important things than trying to call out every man who catcalls you (and for the record, I really don't think this happens as often as women claim, I lived in a college town most of my life, and I never once was catcalled. Flirted with, yes, but catcalled? Never by a stranger).
It's so easy and simple to just live your life and not worry about what everyone else is doing. If something someone says offends you, well maybe you should learn to not be so sensitive.
So, you crazy Feminists, please stop telling us that it's the media who's lying to us, because so are you.
Love from,
Everyone who thinks Feminists are annoying.
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