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to think that women are stupid?

534 replies

lovebunny · 06/07/2012 05:57

elsewhere, there is a complaint about being unsupported when breastfeeding. this is a feminist issue - and the fault lies fairly and squarely at the feet of women.

i am astounded that after the battles fought in the seventies and eighties, women have allowed such regression.

look how stupid women are today. they have their bodies surgically adapted to men's fantasies - breasts enlarged, labia trimmed - they bleach their hair, tattoo their eyeliner and lipstick and have themselves spray-painted. they remove their pubic hair so they look like children for their (multiple) partners. if you read about it in a book on social anthropology you'd be horrified at the 'oppression' of women. but women think they are choosing this!

then they say 'oh, its not fair, no-one supports me when i'm breastfeeding'. too damn right they don't. because you and your compatriots have allowed everyone to see you as barbie dolls to use and abuse. they don't want to see you being women, being grown up, feeding your babies, that spoils the fantasy. you created this; live with it.

when you've finished screaming at me about your 'rights' to have your mons pubis decorated with fake jewels and to have your isabella piercing, organise yourselves.

wash your faces, let the fake tan fade, cut off your dyed hair and let it grow back naturally, so your babies can recognise the human being their genetic memory was expecting to find here. stay free from chemicals that mask your natural odours, so your babies can recognise you by smell. if people are pressurising you to 'go back to work' say, 'certainly. when this baby chooses to stop breastfeeding'. that gives you four to five years at home, maybe longer, when you are doing something no-one else can - being your babies' mothers.

the 'male' has been accepted as the 'norm' in society - so some early feminists wanted to be like men - some of that lingers. but feminists who believe in the strength and value of the female, have retreated into hiding. wake up! speak up! these are your daughters, sisters, aunts, even your mothers tarting themselves up and whoring themselves out to all and sundry trying to be 'wives and girlfriends'! they're too stupid to realise they've been conned!

educate your daughters. make them aware of political and societal manipulation. make women free - free from pressure to look a certain way, behave a certain way. free, in fact, to be women. free to want to eat without guilt, work, reproduce, raise children, form partnerships, find contentment and find peace of mind.

don't leave this to someone else. if strong women don't act to make the world a better place for women, no-one will. and in twenty years' time, i'll be reading 'oh, society doesn't support breast-feeding mothers'. again.

OP posts:
gordyslovesheep · 06/07/2012 09:41
StealthPolarBear · 06/07/2012 09:42

Ah yes thanks. Men's rights apologist (or something like that)

Alameda · 06/07/2012 09:43

but scottishmummy there are also plenty of actual mra posters who post and then eventually some of them get banned

BaronessBomburst · 06/07/2012 09:43

My BF DS complains if I feed him without deodorant on. He says that mummy doesn't smell nice.....oh, hang on, of course, he is male and at 2 is already a member of the oppressive patriachy. Hmm

Alameda · 06/07/2012 09:43

I think it's activist

gordyslovesheep · 06/07/2012 09:43

Surely Rad Fems should not be posting on a board that has male members - I thought they wanted separatism?

whatsthatnoise · 06/07/2012 09:43

Sorry I haven't managed to read the whole thread.

Firstly the only group that let me down when it came to breastfeeding were the medical professionals and my dd's inability to latch on.

Secondly the last time I looked my daughter had 2 parents I prefer that she gets to spend equal time with us therefore we share the financial burden of bringing up a family.

I do wear make up and I do shave my legs. I refuse to accept that either of these things makes me stupid.

Summersend · 06/07/2012 09:44

Hilarious - and a perfect example of why 'feminsts' like you will never be listened to.

OatyBeatie · 06/07/2012 09:44

Agree with jugglingwithtangentialoranges. And I think the special challenge of this decade and the last has been consumer capitalism. The relentless drive to increase retail opportunities has lead to the invention of all sorts of new consumer goods and women have been hit particularly hard as their physical identity and their sexuality has been pervasively accessorized.

I do sometimes find it hard not to feel angry with women who buy into the entirely ersatz appearance that is generated by the consumerization of womanhood -- fake tans, plastic surgery, a mass of make-up, etc. But they and all of us are facing massive business-led pressures that structure our choices in a destructive way. Those pressures structure both the options open to us and the sources of information on which we decide to act.

Isn't it scary btw that our social life is moving online into spaces that are privately owned and dominated by these retail pressures.

scottishmummy · 06/07/2012 09:44

mra=mens rights activists
too blinkered to see the real struggle
apparently

HipHopOpotomus · 06/07/2012 09:49

If lovebunny is a radfem I'll eat my maternity bra!

Krumbum · 06/07/2012 09:52

Op I agree that women should be aware of how partriarchy conditions them to act in certain ways but blaming women and telling them what to do wont work.
I do think women have much less freedoms than men and awareness of this can help get more women on side fighting against patriarchy. But not sure this is the way to go about it and you are blaming women not patriarchy.

MorrisZapp · 06/07/2012 09:52

Guffaws at the Per Una comment!

Class.

scottishmummy · 06/07/2012 09:53

lovebunny wouldn't know feminism if it got up and stoated her
a bossy belligerent rant
v funny in a misplaced way though

Flobbadobs · 06/07/2012 09:55

Anyone elses labia shrivelled up and retreated screaming at the thought of being 'trimmed'?
Quite fancy getting my pubic hair waxed into intresting shapes though....
Bog off OP..

scentednappyhag · 06/07/2012 09:56

This is absolutely hilarious Grin
OP, you owe me a new iPhone as I've just spat tea all over mine while reading your first post!
Brilliant...

HoneyDragonWearingLederhosen · 06/07/2012 09:57

I straightened my fringe this morning as its quite long and I haven't had time to trim it. I feel dreadful now.

scottishmummy · 06/07/2012 09:58

love my haor appointment
hair coloured, buttered up,and drink tea
read book in child free zone

WorraLiberty · 06/07/2012 09:59

It is hilarious but sadly these attention seeking threads have been done many times before Grin

I'm kind of hoping the OP did it before under a different name because it's a scary thought to think there might be more than one person like this on MN.

WorraLiberty · 06/07/2012 10:00

I might make a whore appointment later and get everything done Grin

catgirl1976 · 06/07/2012 10:00

I'm breastfeeding DS whilst putting my make up on

Ohhh dear.....Madonna or whore? I just don't know who I am. Other than stupid obvs.

Tangointhenight · 06/07/2012 10:01

How does one go about trimming ones labia?

scottishmummy · 06/07/2012 10:01

whore
such an old skool putdown
deliciously obnoxious

JugglingWithTangentialOranges · 06/07/2012 10:03

Grin catgirl

Thanks Oaty - feel like you added depth to my thoughts Smile