Feministing: Fuck You!

This Friday’s Feminist Fuck was about the woman who is up for Surgeon General. There are critics, but hardly anyone of any authority, who are saying that she is, literally, too fat for the job, something that was never spoken of so readily for Dr. Koop. However that’s not what this post is about. This post is about the double standards and privilege that many modern feminist expect.

Comments by random people about Dr Benjamin’s weight have met with, deserved scorn and derision from feminists. This was the comment that is causing such uproar: "it is only women that are judged by what they look like and whether that is going to determine whether they are qualified to do the job, as opposed to men that are just evaluated in whether they can do the job."

Now, I think this is the sort of hyperbole that completely destroys the credibility of feminism as a whole. When blanket statements are made about women, regardless of source or context, there is a great deal of women going on about the patriarchy and ‘Teh Menz’ (Yes this was actually used, but it’s ok, she’s a woman) keeping women down. The fact that a man dared to challenge that comment on Feministing, on her down turf (kudos to him) I think is what actually caused such an uproar. Not that anyone would admit this. The women called him a troll, generally talked down to him, insulted him, and then told him that if he wanted to trash women he should go to one those anti-women sites. (Which they bitch about those existing at all) All of this, while the guy was trying to argue, politely a point about the post. They, more or less, bullied this man into shutting up because they didn’t like what he had to say. But that’s not something they think women are capable of doing.

This is very indicative of what modern feminism is about. They don’t want equal treatment, they want special treatment. They write article after article about how something as meaningless as TV commercials, messages on underwear, and jokes by comedians damage women. As if the poor fragile innocent women are too weak to defend their poor minds against such things. As if women can’t handle having their fragile sensibilities challenged so the world must treat them with care. Well, fuck that! I don’t need a bunch of women like that looking out for me, I can deal with the world myself, thank you. Insulting t-shirts about women, bring it! I’ll wear them if I think they’re funny. TV commercials…I’m good consumer with a good idea of what marketing is, no sweat. Rape jokes, anti-women jokes, pedophilia jokes…funny as hell. And before you start going on about how insensitive I am, I was raped as a child, and I still think pedophilia jokes are hilarious.

So Fuck You, Feministing and all the other modern feminists out there who are too afraid to stand on your own. Equality means putting up the same crap everyone else does, not getting special treatment because you have a vagina.