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Why I Am Not

A Feminist
My Personal Reasons
For Rejecting The
Womens Rights Movement

By
cishetwhiteoppressor.tumblr.com

Contents

PAGES

1. Introduction
2. The Definition
3. Reality

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Feminist Quotes
Recent Activism
Feminists Fighting For Equality

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3. Priorities
What Is Feminism Fighting For?
Womens Rights/Mens Rights
Mens Issues

4. Conclusion
Additional information

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1. Introduction
As an outspoken non-feminist blogger, I am used to people simply
not being able to wrap their heads around the idea of someone,
especially a woman, not being a feminist. And I can not blame them.
Many hold the belief that feminism means equality, and that not being
a feminist must mean that you hate women and do not want
the genders to be equal. But it really is not that black and white.
I would like to point out that the intention behind this book was not to
shame anyone for being a feminist. Anyone is free to use whichever
label they want and support any movement they want. But this book
is meant to portray, to anyone who is willing to listen, the reasons people
have for not wanting to associate with feminism.
Since I know that people are not feminists or identify as anti-feminists for
various reasons, I am not trying to be the voice of millions of different
people with different ideas and beliefs. These are simply my opinions
and views. They do not represent anti/non-feminists as a whole.
Nevertheless, I tried my best to shed some light on what feminism
currently looks like in the public eye and why it is getting a worse and
worse reputation.
I am hoping that this might inspire some open-minded feminists to stop
seeing anti- and non-feminists as the enemy, and to start working on
fighting their real enemy - the people who gave them a bad reputation in
the first place.
It is not us who are the problem most of us are not turning our backs on
feminism out of vile reasons.
We are simply a symptom of the disease that has infected the
movement. And it is only getting worse.

2. The Definition
Merriam-Webster
: the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities
: organized activity in support of women's rights and interests

Dictionary.com

Oxford Dictionaries
The advocacy of womens rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men.

Like many ideas, feminism seems great in theory. A movement advocating


the rights of women, how can that be bad?
Well...

3. Reality
Most feminists will try to disregard the horrible, sexist and
immoral acts of fellow activists by reciting one of those
definitions or simply claiming that feminism is equality.
Therefore, anyone who does not fight for gender equality, is
not a real feminist. However, feminism is far from being
only a belief, it is a movement. We simply can not deny that.
The most vocal and representative individuals are usually
the ones who shape the public opinion on a social movement.
Because of this, we can easily find the reason for feminisms
bad reputation in the acts and words of famous feminists:
Since marriage constitutes slavery for women,
it is clear that the womens movement must concentrate
on attacking this institution. Freedom for women cannot
be won without the abolition of marriage.
- Sheila Cronin, the leader of the feminist organization NOW
Feminist organization? Lets see how influential they are....
The National Organization for Women Foundation was established in
1986 as a 501(c)(3) education and litigation organization allied with
the National Organization for Women, the largest feminist activist
organization in the United States with its national offices in
Washington, D.C. and hundreds of affiliates across the country.
http://now.org/now-foundation/about-now-foundation/mission-statement/

They sound like they could give us some insight into the
movement. Maybe they can educate us on their goals and
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intentions.

The feminist Organization NOW has:


- filed a lawsuit in federal court against fatherhood
programs in Alaska, Idaho and Oregon. The objective
of these programs is to provide career counseling to fathers
in three tough categories: incarcerated, military and fathers
with disabled children.
NOW has objected because women are excluded from
these programs "solely because they are women."
https://nationalparentsorganization.org/blog/1177-now-takes-fatherhood-1177

- posted action alerts against shared parenting bills that


would give fathers equal custody rights.
http://www.now.org/nnt/03-97/father.html

- claimed, with no evidence, that Family court routinely give


abusive fathers custody of the children.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/04/newark_protesters_rally_agains.html

Like many feminists, they also still havent realized that the
77 cents per dollar pay-gap has been debunked over and
over again, and are contributing to the spreading of
misinformation in many ways. One of their main goals for
2014 was a Paycheck Fairness Act, an attempt to replace
the 1963 Equal Pay Act, based on the assumption that the
gender pay difference exists because of discrimination, and
not like everyone else has already realized, because of
different choices.
Not the best start...
http://now.org/about/conference-resolutions/2014-national-now-conference-resolutions/

And it obviously doesnt stop there:


Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice.
Only when manhood is dead - and it will perish when ravaged
femininity no longer sustains it - only then will we know what
it is to be free.
While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and
trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women,
is called theory, or idea, or fact.
No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
Q: People think you are very hostile to men.
A: I am.
Q: Doesn't that worry you?
A: From what you said, it worries them.
- Andrea Dworkin
Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations
with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists,
and that's all that they are. They rape us with their eyes,
their laws, and their codes.
Marilyn French
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The institution of sexual intercourse is anti-feminist.


Ti-Grace Atkinson
When a woman reaches orgasm with a man she is only
collaborating with the patriarchal system, eroticizing her
own oppression.
Sheila Jeffrys
The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained
at approximately 10% of the human race.
Sally Miller Gearhart, in The Future If There Is One
Is Female
And if the professional rapist is to be separated from the
average dominant heterosexual (male), it may be mainly a
quantitative difference.
Susan Griffin, Rape: The All-American Crime
More Quotes:

http://thoughtcatalog.com/jake-fillis/2014/05/23-quotes-from-feminists-that-will-make-you-rethink-feminism/
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrea_Dworkin

The problem is not that the above women exist, every


movement will always have members who go way overboard.
The main problem is that they are free to spread their hateful
propaganda without ever being called out for it, because other
feminists usually just dismiss them as fake.
The whole of feminisim is to blame.
Negative ideas about feminisim and feminists do not exist
because of asmall minority of extremists. It exists because
moderate feminists allow them to be their voices.
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Recent activism done in the name of feminism:

Feminists fighting for womens right


to not have to ask a man Can you
please close your legs a bit? ever again.

One of the examples of feminist activism I just love to remind people of


is the famous campaign against man-spreading. It is simply a great
example of feminists finding something harmless men tend to do for
harmless reasons, claiming it affects women negatively, and then
starting an attack on them via social media.
Nobody cared to shame women for putting their bags onto the seat next
to them, neither did they care about fat people spreading over two
whole seats.
The real issue to them was men doing something masculine.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/new-york-metros-campaign-to-stop-manspreading-9938025.html

Dr Matt Taylors shirt made me cry, too with rage at his


abusers
An astrophysicist who deserves our applause has been pilloried in his moment
of triumph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/11234620/Dr-Matt-Taylors-shirt-made-me-cry-too-with-rage-at-his-abusers.html

sexist pig

harmlessly
expressing
her sexuality

Feminists fighting for womens right


to shame men for what they are wearing,
bully them and be complete hypocrites.

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Feminists fighting for womens right


to censor forms of media they are not
interested in and know nothing about.

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http://kotaku.com/the-problem-with-the-casual-cruelty-against-women-in-vi-1626659439

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Feminists being simply amazing people:


Feminists threaten to kill woman for saying men need abuse shelters.
Pizzey has been the subject of death threats and boycotts because of
her research into the claim that most domestic violence is reciprocal,
and that women are equally capable of violence as men. Pizzey has
said that the threats were from militant feminists.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erin_Pizzey

Feminists prevent a meeting about male suicide, call it hate speech.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iARHCxAMAO0

Feminist attacks male cartoonist and is hailed a hero of feminism.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Solanas#The_shooting

Feminists disrupt a forum about battered husbands.


Men's activists hold a public forum to discuss the possibility of giving
male victims of domestic violence some of the social services that are
currently only available to female victims. Feminists, who strongly
oppose any recognition of male victims of abuse, disrupt the forum
and try to shut it down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qodygTkTUYM

Womens groups: Cancel law charging women with rape!


The Knesset Law Committee on Tuesday decided to postpone a vote
on second and third reading of a bill to add the crime of rape by a
woman to the statute book after womens organizations warned that
it would lead to a situation where women would be afraid to charge
men with rape.
http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Womens-groups-Cancel-law-charging-women-with-rape

Feminists against beyond reasonable doubt when its male rapists.

http://studentactivism.net/2011/07/21/preponderance-of-the-evidence/

Feminists say men cant be raped.


http://www.hindustantimes.com/newdelhi/only-men-can-be-booked-for-rape/article1-1021702.aspx

Swedish Left Party Chapter Wants To Make Urinating While Standing Illegal For Men
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/13/sweden-left-party-toilet-stand_n_1590572.html

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Erin Pizzey had to flee the UK because she and her family received death threats,
because feminists didnt like that she discovered women were equally as violent
as men.

http://www.fathersforlife.org/pizzey/failfamt.htm

Suzanne Steinmetz and her children received death threats and bomb threats she
discovered that the rate at which men were victimized by domestic violence was
similar to the rate for women.
http://www.ifeminists.net/introduction/editorials/2005/0525roberts.html

http://jezebel.com/294383/have-you-ever-beat-up-a-boyfriend-cause-uh-we-have

Feminists fought against laws granting men anonymity until charged with the crime
of rape.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-10760239
Women should not be sent to prison and should instead serve community
sentences - the Women's Justice Taskforce.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13666066
How feminist groups skewed the Obama stimulus plan towards women's jobs.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/016/659dkrod.asp

but those are not real feminists


Well, they surely are a real fucking threat to
society and gender equality.

And theyre doing all that


in the name of feminism.
and are getting away with it. 13

4. Priorities
Now that we have learned what exactly the third wave of
feminists is fighting for, its time to precify what
fighting for womens rights seems to mean nowadays:
Feminists stand for:
1. Male rape victims being ignored.
2. Men being attacked for sitting with their legs in a V
shape.
3. Men being attacked for wearing shirts with sexy women
on them.
4. The issue of male suicides being ignored.
5. Women not having to go to prison.
6. Attacking people for making statements or conducting
studies that debunk their dogmatic beliefs.
7. Fathers not getting support and recognition.
8. Games with sexy female characters and violence not
being played and produced anymore.
Obviously, this is not what every feminist believes.
And its also obviously not everything feminists have done in
the past few years. There have certainly also been good things.
But this is exactly the impression an outsider will get of the
movement.
Feminism looks like a bunch of lunatics.
Because many are fucking lunatics.
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Feminists would like us to listen and


believe that womens issues significantly
outweigh mens issues.
But is this really, objectivelly, true?
Womens group WHO claims to advocate for:
- Reproductive Rights and Justice
- Economic Justice
- Ending Violence Against Women
- Racial Justice
- LGBT Rights
- Constitutional Equality
Mens rights advocates want:
- Reproductive Rights and Justice
- Economic Justice
- The Right To Have Rape And
Abuse Taken Seriously
- Racial Justice
- LGBT Rights
- Constitutional Equality
- The Right To Genital Integrity
And now youre probably thinking Which problems could
those privileged males ever have?
Youre a damn MRA, arent you?.
To which my answer is No, Im just not fucking blind.
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Men
Women

of suicide victims
in
the
U.S.
79%*
are male.

Male genital mutilation is legal


in first world countries.
The rape of males is in most countries legally not
even considered rape.

Men are forced to sign up for


draft and go to war if necessary.
Men and Boys are doing worse in all aspects of the
educational system, from kindergarten to university.**
Breast cancer gets more funding & research than
prostate cancer despite affecting men at a similar rate
as breast cancer affects women. ***
*http://www.save.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.viewPage&page_id=705D5DF4-055B-F1EC-3F66462866FCB4E6
**http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/09/education/09college.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
***http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/stories/2007-06-13/a-gender-gap-in-cancerbusinessweekbusiness-news-stock-market-and-financial-advice
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The youth unemployment rate


for black male dropouts stands
at over 50%.*
About two in five of all victims of
domestic violence are men.**
Provision of refuge

Refuge places available in England and Wales

Females

7,500

Males

60

"Their plight is largely overlooked by the media,


in official reports and in government policy, for
example in the provision of refuge places 7,500
for females in England and Wales but

only 60 for men."**


*http://dailycaller.com/2013/03/27/male-african-american-unemployment-is-over-50-percent-among-dropouts/
**http://www.theguardian.com/society/2010/sep/05/men-victims-domestic-violence

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Men account for 93% of all


workplace deaths in America. 1
57,849 veterans, overwhelmingly 92% male, were
homeless on a single night in January 2013. 2
Homeless men die 22 years younger than homeless
women. 3
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Women win sole-custody battles 5 out of 6 times.


As a culture we teach men to hide their emotions
even if it kills them.

Go to

http://listverse.com/2013/06/25/10-examples-of-men39s-issuesthe-media-loves-to-ignore/
http://time.com/2949435/what-i-learned-as-a-woman-at-amens-rights-conference/
http://www.avoiceformen.com/

For more information.


Sources

1 - http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/why-did-workplace-deaths-fall-in-2008/,
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cfoi.nr0.htm
2 - http://nationalhomeless.org/about-homelessness/

3 - http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/why-homeless-men-die-22-years-younger-2297091.html

4 - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-t-pisarra/the-y-factor-gender-bias-_b_838631.html

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5. Conclusion
I am not a feminist,
because the word has become assiciated with misandry, hate, female superiority,
hypocrisy, fear-mongering, misinformation,and complete and utter denial of
mens issues.
I am not a feminist,
because the movement has been doing nothing but attacking and bullying men for
the past few years. Most things feminists fight for do not benefit me or other
women, they do nothing to achieve equality of the genders and are downright
counterproductive.
I am not a feminist,
because womens legal rights have already been achieved. All that is left now is to
make sure that they are preserved and empower women to make their own choices
and live happy lives. Which feminists are simply not doing enough.
I am not a feminist,
because I do not need a movement to represent me and
because I do not want to fix what other feminists have broken.
I am not a feminist,
because I am not a victim and men are not my enemy. They are not privileged
and I am not oppressed. I am aware of the fact that being a woman can be a
privilege in many ways.

I am not a feminist, because I do not need a label to believe in


gender equality.

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For more information on issues like the gender pay gap,


rape culture, sexual assault statistics, domestic abuse
statistics,
and the societal consequences of the derailed third world
feminist movement,
visit my Tumblr blog at
cishetwhiteoppressor.tumblr.com
and make sure to take a look at my Infographics page.
Id also recommend going to

http://admiralfeareon.tumblr.com/debunking-feminism

for a collection of links and details on the above listed topics.


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