Why do people think femenists are over-bearing man-haters...?

Question

who sue at the drop of a hat....? It is NOT true of all of us. Most of us only want to be paid what we are worth and not to be forced into motherhood. Is that really so unreasonable?

Answer 1

To answer the question, I think it's because of the observed attitudes many of them display on message boards and answer boards much like this one. Anger and disdain towards men are as often the norm as not. But the one that gets me the most is how some think it's OK to play God and decide if the child they are carrying gets to live or die. That unborn child has two parents...not one. Women who make this decision without taking into account the father's opinion (as many of them claim they have the right to do) indirectly place themselves on a higher level than men in their own minds. Many of them are great at rationalizing this away...problem is that the truth gets rationalized away, too. Most don't seem to care, and that's scary.

Answer 2

Many people feel threatened by feminists. Conservative and traditional people feel uncomfortable with anyone trying to upset the status quo. Also, feminism of the 1970s alienated a lot of moderate women by attacking as antifeminist any woman who decided to take on a traditional lifestyle of raising children and being a homemaker. It was then that feminism began to fall out of fashion, and it has never regained that momentum. Now girls think it's empowering to reveal their breasts on camera a la Girls Gone Wild.

I am in agreement with you on your views of what feminism means. I have a feeling that I do not hate men, but I hate bigoted and disrespectful people. I think women should be able to make whatever decision they want regarding their life and they should be treated with respect and equality.

However, stereotypes are difficult to erase. Unfortunately, the most common stereotype of a feminist is the "femi-nazi", the angry man- and family-hater. Perhaps the more moderate of us should become more vocal.

Answer 3

I have respect for women who do not want children, because I am one of those women. I respect the fact that women want equal pay for equal work, only if they are indeed doing equal work. But I do not have respect for a woman who insists on having children and then setting up a power struggle in her home with her husband over what roles each should play. I have no respect for a woman who would ignore scientific facts in order to get her own way. All you do is damage the children, and you actually raise your sons to be woman haters and raise your daughters to be suspicious of all men, and never be able to have a functional relationship. And all for what? Because you wanted to prove a point at home? Its sick!

Answer 4

Some quotes from feminists that speak for themselves:

"All men are rapists and that's all they are."
Marilyn French, Author; (later, advisor to Al Gore's Presidential Campaign.)

"All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman."
Catherine MacKinnon

"Men who are unjustly accused of rape can sometimes gain from the experience."
Catherine Comin, Vassar College. Assistant Dean of Students.

"The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness...can be trained to do most things."
Jilly Cooper, SCUM (Society For Cutting Up Men.)

"I want to see a man beaten to a bloody pulp with a high-heel shoved in his mouth, like an apple in the mouth of a pig."
Andrea Dworkin; from her book Ice and Fire .

"I feel that 'man-hating' is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them."
Robin Morgan, Ms. Magazine Editor.

"I claim that rape exists any time sexual intercourse occurs when it has not been initiated by the woman, out of her own genuine affection and desire."
Robin Morgan

"In a patriarchal society, all heterosexual intercourse is rape because women, as a group, are not strong enough to give meaningful consent."
Catharine MacKinnon, quoted in Professing Feminism:
Cautionary Tales from the Strange World of Women's Studies.

"When a woman reaches orgasm with a man she is only collaborating with the patriarchal system, eroticizing her own oppression..."
Sheila Jeffrys

• We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.
Robin Morgan

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry…Gloria Steinem

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters…Gloria Steinem

Answer 5

Its because of the chip on the shoulder attitude most fems approach you with look at your name.Women need to quit trying to be like men and use the power they have cause intimately they hold all the power over men.I separated from my wife went to get vasectomy because we were legally married yet could not unless she signed release form.Yet i bet she could have gone an aborted a child without my consent.why should women's ovaries be more protected than my nads.

Answer 6

Well, there are examples of radicals who are feminists and they do get most of the attention.

But categorizing them as some sort of unnatural extremist lets people dismiss their ideas without getting past the smoke screen.

Answer 7

Someone's trying to push your buttons. Don't buy into it.

Answer 8

jealousy

Answer 9

to be true i think, they never had a real good screw...& non respected them as a female...maybe cause of their inflated body or inflated ego....