Feminism In A Bottle: The Self-Cloistered Adult Babies On American Campuses
American feminists are too busy with campaigns to "Free The Nipple" and demanding "trigger warnings" for classic literature to care about women whose rights are being violated in places like Iran, Yemen, Egypt, and Cambodia. (The exception seems to be women in Gaza, etc., because, well, that's sanctioned hate against the Jooos.)
Christina Hoff Sommers writes at The Daily Telegraph about American women's overblown idea of the horrible injustices they are suffering. But first, here's how it works for women in places like Iran:
In August 2014, 12 members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard charged into 28-year-old artist Atena Farghadani's house, blindfolded her, and took her to prison.She had posted a satirical cartoon on Facebook to protest proposed legislation to restrict birth control and women's rights. Farghadani has since been found guilty of "spreading propaganda" and "insulting members of parliament through paintings." She has been sentenced to 12 years in prison.
As for American feminists:
It's not that they don't feel bad for women in places like Iran or Yemen. They do. But they believe they share a similar fate.And they can cite a litany of victim statistics from their gender studies class that shows their plight. Someone needs to tell them that most of those statistics are specious and that, although the threat of harm is a human constant, they are among the most liberated and privileged -- and safest -- people on earth.
She makes it clear:
It is not my view that because women in countries like Iran or Afghanistan have it so much worse, Western women should tolerate less serious injustices at home. Emphatically they should not.But too often, today's gender activists are not fighting injustice, but fighting phantom epidemics and nursing petty grievances. Two leading feminist hashtags of 2015 are #FreeTheNipples and #LovetheLines. The former is a campaign to desexualise women's breasts; the latter promotes stretch-mark acceptance. If the imprisoned women of Iran and Afghanistan were free to tweet, what would they say about these struggles?
Several years ago the American philosopher Martha Nussbaum created a small furore when she noted with disapproval that "feminist theory pays relatively little attention to the struggles of women outside the United States." Her academic colleagues pounced: Gayatri Spivak, professor of comparative literature at Columbia, accused Nussbaum of "flag waving" and of being on a "civilising mission."
I'm reminded of how the women truly in danger of rape are poor inner-city women and especially, homeless women. Where's the activism for rape crisis centers for them? No, never mind -- we've got the largely unused rape crisis centers on campus. That's all that matters.
American Collegiate Feminism seems obsessed with what are, in even the most preliminary analysis, #FirstWorldProblems. . .
Me at August 24, 2015 5:29 AM
Well, since 'inappropriate' "looking" is a sex crime 'go topless' should be a non-event.
Besides, what if everyone simply chuckled or simply said "That's cute.".
Bob in Texas at August 24, 2015 6:08 AM
"But they believe they share a similar fate. "
Holy crap, that's it. That's it exactly: "My having to read Sense and Sensibility for English Lit is every bit as bad as women in Iran being gang-raped!" What a childishly narcissistic viewpoint. All of campus feminism is just teenagers, who happen to be female, whining about having to do their homework.
Cousin Dave at August 24, 2015 6:50 AM
They probably need to be cloistered. As I recall, "people who insist on perfect safety don't have the balls to live in the real world".
So go to your post-modernist monastery and leave the rest of us in peace. But nooooo, they mean to inflict their brand of insanity on the rest of us.
Have I committed the requisite amount of micro-agressions in this comment?
I R A Darth Aggie at August 24, 2015 7:38 AM
Feminists believe all women should have equal rights (and equal results) as men, but they also believe that the "west" should not be imposing its values on other cultures.
Well you can't have it both ways. Feminists, however, seem unwillingly to even recognize the dilemma, much less address it, resulting in the bizarre behaviour described above.
rabbit at August 24, 2015 7:50 AM
These professional grievance mongers equate being offended with being physically hurt - so, yes, their plight is, to them, equivalent to the plight of women in the Middle East.
Conan the Grammarian at August 24, 2015 9:21 AM
Rabbit, Feminists in no way want equal rights. They want better rights. They are female supremacists little different from white supremacists.
Ben at August 24, 2015 10:54 AM
Rabbit, Feminists in no way want equal rights. They want better rights. They are female supremacists little different from white supremacists.
Ben at August 24, 2015 10:54 AM
Not a surprise from the "Me first! Me always!", helicoptered generation.
As geneticists investigate further, they find that suffering changes heritable traits. Soon, no one in these complaint-prone groups will be able to cope - with anything.
And it's not just Feminism that does this. We also do not give a damn about any kind of slavery other than the kind that can be milked for votes and money in the USA.
Radwaste at August 24, 2015 11:08 AM
The irony of this situation, is that back in the early part of the 20thcentury, women is college were treated like children, with their own dorms, rules, and curfews.
Men to some extent also, were treated this way, and the colleges job was to be *in loco parentis *
Starting in the seventies all these repressive rules went bye bye, and women were expected to be adult enough to handle their own affairs when they went to college.
Now the SJW's want a return to the good old days, but rather than keeping the women *safe* by restricting where the women go, the colleges are now expected to make the world safe for them, by controlling the entire environment, on and off campus.
It's like a large open safari park, when the Wymins run free, and everyone else needs to be locked in their cars with the windows up.
Isab at August 24, 2015 5:00 PM
Well, that's an image I'll enjoy Isab. A safari park you can drive through. With lots of naked Wymin running wild. You can even buy Wymin food and they will come up to your car and eat out of your hand. ;>
Ben at August 24, 2015 7:40 PM
You want adult babies on campus? Here you go - refusing to do the work because:
"I feel as if I would have to compromise my personal Christian moral beliefs to read it," incoming freshman Brian Grasso wrote ...
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at August 24, 2015 10:28 PM
Doing something about it would require icky men with icky guns. Since that would make fragile heads explode, real victims are best ignored. The braver SJWs might even say somebody should do something about it. Like the UN.
MarkD at August 25, 2015 5:59 AM
"'I feel as if I would have to compromise my personal Christian moral beliefs to read it,' incoming freshman Brian Grasso wrote ..."
Hey, the grievance train's running full speed ahead. Why not get on board?
And Ben, you've got to watch out -- they'll stick their tongues in through the window and slobber all over your stick shift.
Cousin Dave at August 25, 2015 6:58 AM
An important point undermined by your insistence on pretending that support for Palestinians is just Jew-hatred. A quick google search shows this is just one of many ignorant things you've said about Palestinians, though; too bad.
Undermined at August 25, 2015 8:45 AM
"A quick google search shows this is just one of many ignorant things you've said about Palestinians, though; too bad."
And we have another Google-alert professional troll, who has never posted here before. Does the Holy Land Foundation pay you to troll the Internet all day? If you mean what you say, provide evidence. Otherwise I will dismiss your opinions out of hand. I don't waste my time with fabulists.
Besides, you posted to the wrong thread. This one has nothing at all to do with the Middle East.
Cousin Dave at August 25, 2015 10:51 AM
Okay, I lied: This thread does have to do with the Middle Eaat. However, it has nothing to do with Palistineans. Sorry, but trolls make me forget stuff sometimes.
Cousin Dave at August 25, 2015 12:18 PM
So these three young fellows were on a train and a guy with an AK-47 starts shooting. And gosh were those young fellows offended! For the first time in their male-privileged lives, they felt oppressed! So they pulled out their phones, got on Twitter, and typed up some great new hashtags to shame the assailant, peacefully advance the cause of social justice, and save the day. That's the good stuff that happens when our young men embrace today's version of feminism.
DrPinWV at August 26, 2015 5:34 AM
That's the good stuff that happens when our young men embrace today's version of feminism.
Posted by: DrPinWV at August 26, 2015 5:34 AM
Is Isnt just feminism. All of this, *sit around the campfire singing kum by yah--we would like to buy the world a coke --appeasement social justice warrior foreign policy-- springs from the same poisoned well.
The naive liberal tenant of faith, that every problem can be solved if you just talk about it.....earnestly.
A group of the true believes is probably on their way over to Iran right now, to hold hands around their nuclear bomb project and dare Israel to attack it.
Isab at August 26, 2015 12:00 PM
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