Why do many feminist speak so negatively about people who do not identify as a feminist, especially women? Over the amount of time I have spent on the internet over the years has been, what some would say is too much time. However it is not entirely a waste of time, I have noticed that the feminist community has shown a significant amount of hate towards anyone who doesn’t follow their ideas. Whether they disagree with some of their ideas, call themselves something else like an equalist, or they just don’t care or know about what is going on. Many of the people in the online feminist community seem to absolutely hate anyone who is not a part of their cause. In order to answer this I did a lot amount of research on the leaders of the feminist
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During one of the events being held a woman in the audience had asked the speakers “What are your thoughts on women against feminism?” one of the speakers had answered, almost interrupting the woman, replied with “they need to die.” The response from the audience was laughter and applause. That makes it seem like they have no tolerance for anyone with a different opinion than theirs. “Well they are fighting for equal rights, so why would you be against that?” I hear you asking that question already, so let me explain what both sides want and what they fight for. Feminism is the fight for women 's rights on the grounds of political, social, economic grounds. The anti-feminist community is mostly consisting of equalist or humanist, which is the belief that all human beings, regardless of gender, race, age, ethnic origin, or any other factor that defines our individual differences, are totally equal. So why are they at odds you may ask? Well the anti-feminist believe that they aren’t fighting for what they say that they do and instead are asking for privileges not for equal rights. This is where the disagreements start, the feminist think that the people against them are all just sexist. They have no tolerance for opposition so they …show more content…
The percentage of women in the schools is a good example of this. The number of men is significantly less than that of women, around 20% less, with men at 40% and women at 60%(2). Now if that were not influenced by some form of bias that that number would at least be within a few percent of 50/50.There is a public speaker , named Milo Yiannopoulos, who often goes to universities both in the United States and Europe but when he goes to the collages he gets protested and even has his promotional posters torn down(3). The universities respond with appeasement or ignoring the problem. This is not the only example though, the universities also allow this to happen to their own staff. The Oxford Professor Fiamengo was attempting to give a speech for the anti-feminist community, and was practically forced off stage by the mass of people yelling and screaming in order to block out what she was saying(4). That’s not all however, during a meeting involving men 's issues a large group of protesters blocked the entrance and proceeded to verbally assault the security guards for “protecting misogynistic speeches.” The meeting was involving issues such as male suicide rates and male rape rates, when you include prison that rate is higher than women 's(5). This is what makes people question if feminism is really about equality, they tend to ask “what are you fighting for, don’t women already have
During one of the events being held a woman in the audience had asked the speakers “What are your thoughts on women against feminism?” one of the speakers had answered, almost interrupting the woman, replied with “they need to die.” The response from the audience was laughter and applause. That makes it seem like they have no tolerance for anyone with a different opinion than theirs. “Well they are fighting for equal rights, so why would you be against that?” I hear you asking that question already, so let me explain what both sides want and what they fight for. Feminism is the fight for women 's rights on the grounds of political, social, economic grounds. The anti-feminist community is mostly consisting of equalist or humanist, which is the belief that all human beings, regardless of gender, race, age, ethnic origin, or any other factor that defines our individual differences, are totally equal. So why are they at odds you may ask? Well the anti-feminist believe that they aren’t fighting for what they say that they do and instead are asking for privileges not for equal rights. This is where the disagreements start, the feminist think that the people against them are all just sexist. They have no tolerance for opposition so they …show more content…
The percentage of women in the schools is a good example of this. The number of men is significantly less than that of women, around 20% less, with men at 40% and women at 60%(2). Now if that were not influenced by some form of bias that that number would at least be within a few percent of 50/50.There is a public speaker , named Milo Yiannopoulos, who often goes to universities both in the United States and Europe but when he goes to the collages he gets protested and even has his promotional posters torn down(3). The universities respond with appeasement or ignoring the problem. This is not the only example though, the universities also allow this to happen to their own staff. The Oxford Professor Fiamengo was attempting to give a speech for the anti-feminist community, and was practically forced off stage by the mass of people yelling and screaming in order to block out what she was saying(4). That’s not all however, during a meeting involving men 's issues a large group of protesters blocked the entrance and proceeded to verbally assault the security guards for “protecting misogynistic speeches.” The meeting was involving issues such as male suicide rates and male rape rates, when you include prison that rate is higher than women 's(5). This is what makes people question if feminism is really about equality, they tend to ask “what are you fighting for, don’t women already have