Reducing the male population by 90% will solve all our problems

Crikey that was a erm interesting read.

The point about sex selective termination and getting rid of lots of boys - sounds horrific - but of course is happening with girls to a lesser extent.

The idea that being "more in demand" will improve matters for men - demonstrably that has not happened for women - who are always deemed as the ones being "in demand" and especially where sex selective abortion has made females more scarce. The results have not been that the special ladies are all treated like princesses and have a marvellous time by a long shot.

She seems to envisage that heterosexual women would be quite comfortable with not having hardly any men around, that some of them would be happy to have relationships with women instead. I envisage massive massive great fights over access!

As a sort of reverse exercise to show up how bad some of the current situations are for women by applying them to men - maybe some of it. What do they call it. Thought exercise?

As an actual plan, hmmmm. Well that's not going to work is it.

Apart from anything else she imagines that a society mainly of women would be better. She has no way of knowing that does she.

Plus, you know, I for one like boys

Ugh. Cue thousands of idiots with access to a computer who can't differentiate between one crazy lunatic and the rest of feminism. I can't help but feel that the 'journalist' had this agenda in mind.

I was going to say men are already a privileged class too!

Oh, this Femitheist person is either a troll or spent far too much of her university career exploring pharmaceuticals.

What a nut job.

Mini, to answer your question (we cross posted), clearly it's not feminist. This is firmly filed in the "nutter writing in purple ink" category, and actually not worth devoting any thought to. As I said above, the only implication for feminists is that this sort of shit is going to be quoted back at us by every MRA nut on the opposite side for years to come.

Men would be a special, valued class with a greatly improved quality of life? So they get a life-long vacation, and women have to do all the rubbish jobs (including looking after them), as well as the higher status work of running the world. Not so very different for the life of some men currently.

Also, it sounds like she wants people to behave in quite restricted ways with lots of social controls. Now, I'm all for some social controls - it's good that we don't encourage murder or theft or so on - but I don't want to live in some Orwellian state where you're only allowed to think in particular ways. I like knowing people from all sorts of backgrounds (and sexes). It's people's imperfections which make them human and interesting - perfection would be pretty dull, I reckon.

Still, I suppose it is more to start conversation around it than a serious proposal. I hope. Could make a good dystopian novel, though.

Is her identity known?
Do we know that the Femitheist is in fact a woman (by whatever definition you care to chose)?

Her interview just reads really odd… apart from the obvious odd, I mean.

I all that sounds like a brilliant idea - for a work of fiction.
Can she write?
I've never heard of her or her blog and have high hopes that she might grow up in the fullness of time.

And there, in a nutshell, is the problem with the internet age. While in times gone by, only career academics had to read the twaddle produced by truly jejeune and (in this case) clearly bonkers 22 year olds, now they can foist it upon the wider world.

Unfortunately, over the next couple of decades this will be quoted over and over again by MRAs saying "look what these evil rad fems really think," when in fact it is a silly little only-just-grown-out-of-childhood twerp trying to be deliberately provocative to get a rise out of the grown-ups.

(Disclaimer - in my stint as an academic, most students, 95%, were very nice and some were truly brilliant with a maturity way beyond their years - but every so often you'd come across one like this!)

Sounds completely bonkers.

What an horrific solution to a non-problem.

What an horrific solution to a non-problem.

If you could crack dual-female progeny, why have any men at all?

I'm not at all convinced a solely female society would be radically different though. I strongly suspect that women can be just as destructive, divisive, and power-hungry as men, if given the opportunity.

Tell that underripe excuse for a scientist to keep her beastly scalpel away from my boys