Will women get a raw deal in Occupy Wall Street?

Occupy Wall Street has being dominating the news lately and from what I can see it has very little to do with feminism.  The protesters are still trying to define exactly what it is that they want to take away form this protest. But what we can definitely know is that they are protesting the great disparity within the economy.

This at first glance may suggest that the protest takes feminist ideology into account.  Wall Street together with the economy as a whole is virtually entirely in the hands of strait white males.

Personally I see nothing wrong with a person who works hard and reaps great rewards from their hard labour.  

But these strait white males are making fortunes at the misery of so many people.  And what do these mighty white males do with all their money that they have made at the expense of others, do they invest it back into the economy in away that all can benefit?

Not at all, they use it to make themselves more powerful by using it to oppress those who are not welcome into their boys’ club house.  They use it to finance the porn industry and the prostitution industry by making use of porn and prostitutes both locally and abroad.  It would not surprise me if some of these strait white males believed that they were in actual fact investing their money, after all if paying a third world country so that they can rape that country’s young girls is that not supporting a third world country financially?

So at first, yes,

Occupy Wall Street

does seem to uphold feminist principals in that it oppose this kind of tyranny.

Yet when looking at it more closely we see that it is very much represented by males.  This being, despite there being a good deal of women present.  It is the men who are deciding what they want out of this protest.  They are asking themselves, what is best for men. 

Women are suffering tremendously under this economic disaster, yet it seems that only the men are the ones deciding on what is best and you can be sure that when they are making these decisions they are not thinking about feminism, but rather about how it will advance their male privilege and not how it will uplift women.

Just because there are a good number of women present does not mean that their needs are being taken into account.  The fact that there are many women present shows that they do take this seriously, that their needs are just as important as men’s, therefore it is only right that women need to be afforded the same opportunities as men, otherwise women will once again get walked all over in this male dominated world.

Remember feminism is not about trying to deny that men don’t suffer, but rather that women’s suffering is of equal importance to that of men.

Proud to be a man-hater

Lately I have been bombarded with comments and articles clearly pointing out that feminists are nothing short of ugly, hairy man-haters. As the term man-hater is something that gets thrown around constantly in anti-feminist circles, I want to find out what does the term man-hater acutely mean.

To get a definition of the term man-hater we must remember that we are living in a male dominated world by which everything is defined in terms of male supremacy and privilege.

Therefore an attack on male supremacy would already start pushing you in the direction of being a man-hater. Male supremacy delights itself in the likes of rape, porn, prostitution, violence, greed etc. Therefore if a feminist protests rape or porn, she is seen as someone who is attacking the ideals of male supremacy and is therefore branded a man-hater.

The term man-hating is not something new, it has been around for many, many years. When female suffragettes where demanding the right to vote, ugly, hairy man-haters where quite common words to be heard in the sentences and as stand-alone words of many a male.

Today very little has changed, as soon as a woman or girl dares to stand-up to sexism, racism or to even try and suggest that girls and women have rights they are branded man-haters.

In my personal experience I have found many men who use the term man-hater to often associate themselves with the likes of men's and/or fathers rights.

Most MRAs and fathers rights activists are strait white males who have the greatest power and privilege under male supremacy. I guess these privileged assholes resent feminists attacking their special privileges as these privileges keep women and girls in servitude to the mighty white male.

If opposing rape, porn, prostitution, male on female violence, sexism, racism, homophobia etc etc makes a feminist a man-hater, then not only am I a man-hater but also proud to be one.

If you are a feminist and you get accused of being a man-hater by the oppressor it means you are doing a good job. So next time you get called a man-hater or any other nasty term like femiNAZI be proud of it and let it spur you on to become an even more radical man-hater.