Time to “kick Patriarchy in the groin.”

Why does feminism seem to be in permanent slow motion?  It seems that feminisms victories take forever to achieve and when something is finally achieved it just seems that so much time and effort was put in by so few to achieve a couple of bread crumbs.

Is this because many women firmly believe that we have achieved equality and now there is nothing more to achieve?  Is it because women have just thrown in the towel and decided that liberating women from male domination is just too much work and too much of a sacrifice.

If we have truly reached equality why do men still see women as their property and sex objects.  Why do fathers still rape their daughters and murder their wives and girlfriends.

Why do male matters matter and women’s views are totally disregarded.

If standing up to male supremacy is too much of an effort and a sacrifice then how does one explain rape and other horrid forms of sexual, physical and psychological violence that men rain down on women every second of the day on this planet?

Is it because male domination has been around since the dawn of time that women don’t know any better and have just accepted male oppression as a fact of life.

Men have privilege and power and they enjoy every second of it without even considering the effects it has on women and girls.  Life revolves around men, men determine what is right and wrong and everything is defined by male standards.  Women are just property that the male can use and abuse as he sees fit.

Men have no interest in equality.  If they did they could have ensured a proper society where all are treated justly.  But men don’t want this; they don’t want to give up their privilege and power.   

Women need to realize that if they just sit back and accept male abuse it will not go away.  The oppression of women and girls will just get worse.  More women will get raped, more wives and girlfriends will be abused and even murdered, and women will have to deal with more sexism and even racism.

Its time to get feminism fueled up and moving again.  Men don’t want equality so if we sit around talking about equality we will achieve nothing.

Feminism must be about completely destroying male supremacy and privilege.  Feminists need to “kick Patriarchy in the groin.”

Feminism is not about pleasing men.  It’s about realizing who the enemy of women and girls are and dealing effectively with the enemy to ensure that no man will ever be able to inflict any harm be it sexual, physical or psychological on any woman or girl ever again.

Who are the real enemies of feminism?

                             See what happens when we stand as one

A point of frustration for me is the divisions within the feminist movement.  These differences don’t just result in different views and opinions which by itself is perfectly acceptable and often advantages but also result in some horrific in-fighting.  Often I have heard feminists so determined to force their views and ideologies on fellow feminists that the argument turns into a situation where one feminist pours out vile hatred towards the other and often the other returns this hatred in kind.  So much for a constructive argument.

I sometimes wonder who are the real enemies of us feminists.  Is it male domination and supremacy as we always preach or are our biggest enemies fellow feminists?  Based on some of the vicious attackers I have both experienced and witnessed I am inclined to think it is the latter.

Understandably feminists come from all walks of life, with very different experiences.  This is a good thing but then these feminists start expecting feminism and feminists to comply with a whole host of their pre conceived ideas.

Some of the biggest divisions seem to be race, sexual orientation and even religion.

One of the aims of feminism to totally eradicate racism and yet there are such huge divisions between white women and women of colour.  How on earth are these divisions going to bring anything good to feminism?  Understandably, as humans we tend to mix with people who we perceive as similar to us for example white women will tend to mix more with white women and black women will tend to mix more with black women.  This by itself I do not think is a problem.  Feminism is about liberating a women and if a woman is liberated then she can mix with who ever she wants to.

However, let’s not let this division come between us in our quest to destroy male supremacy.  Black women often go off on a tandem that white women are arrogant and could never understand their suffering, as black women have suffered far more then white women. 

With a view like this no wonder there is so much vicious conflict between the races. 

White women have been known to be arrogant and look down on black women.  Under the feminist umbrella white women must realize that all women are of equal value.  No woman is better then the next, but at the same time black women must understand that suffering is relative.  We all experience suffering differently. 

You and I could face the same tragic experience together but it won’t necessarily mean we will experience it the same.  You may recover quickly from it while I may be terribly traumatized by it.

So ladies, stop been arrogant and stop telling other feminists that their suffering is nothing in comparison to yours as this also comes down to arrogance.

Remember, racism is a product of white male supremacy.  White males did not want their supremacy challenged therefore they made a very clever and cunning move by creating racism which clearly caused divisions.

Despite keeping white women oppressed they gave them more privileges then black women thus creating animosity between the two.

They told their white women that non white people were savages and given the chance they would rape and murder white women and only white men could save them from such an evil fate.  Thus white women saw people of colour as dangerous and scary and at the same time saw their oppressor as their saviour

Then there is sexual orientation.  Some women claim that in order to be a true feminist you have to be a lesbian otherwise it means you are sleeping with the enemy.  Other women find it imposable to be a lesbian and feel that blind hatred towards men will only cause greater problems for women. 

All women should be striving for the liberation of women from men.  If you are a lesbian then you strive as a lesbian to liberate women, if you are heterosexual and have no interest in lesbianism then you strive as a heterosexual women to liberate women. 

Ladies, in what holy book does it state that you have to be a lesbian to be a feminist or that only heterosexual women can be feminists?

Your responsibility is to liberate women irrespective of which side of the coin you are on.  And its time to start realizing that the other side is of equal value to your side as it is the same coin.

Talking of holy books, religion also comes up.  It amazes me how many feminists regard Christianity as some evil man made religion to oppress women.  Strange how these very same feminists don’t have much to say about Islam.

If you are going to reject Christianity, just remember that there are a great deal of Christian women in the world who have become Christian by their own free will (remember feminism is about giving the woman the right to choose) these women use their faith to overcome and destroy sexism and racism so who are you to attack them for their beliefs.

If you are going to reject Christianity as un-feminists then does that mean Christian women who are minorities in countries like Pakistan, Egypt, Indonesia must now be rejected.  Eventhough these women are horribly oppressed in their own countries not just because they are women, but also because they are Christian.

Please read this article called “Muslim Extremists in India Attack, Threaten Christian Women” to give you an idea of what Christian women are up against in countries where they are the minority.

http://www.persecution.org/2011/08/07/muslim-extremists-in-india-attack-threaten-christian-women/

If Western feminists are going to ignore something as horrid as this just because these women are Christian then we seriously have fallen off the feminist bus.  Christian women in non-Christian countries need our support and as feminists we should be doing just that.  But instead we go on about how Christianity and feminism don’t go together and while we are having a big Christian debate, these Christian women continue to suffer.

In fact as feminists we need to wake-up and realize that while we are going at each other whether it is about race, sexual orientation, religion or anything else the number of men who rape and murder women is increasing, the number of men who abuse their partners is increasing, the porn and prostitution industry is growing and the men who are involved in sex slave trade are laughing all the way to the bank.

So next time you are either in a bad argument i.e. not a constructive argument (the two are different) with a feminist or are not trying to defuse one remember while you are fighting your sister, some young girl is been raped by her father and you are doing nothing to stop it.

We need to be one collective feminist organization, with our individual personalities.  Being part of a collective does not mean you should lose your individuality but rather it should be strengthened by you looking at yourself and at your strengths and asking yourself “how can I use my strengths and uniqueness to strengthen the feminist organization in is fight to literate women from men.”

Can women have their own space in a male dominated world?

Feminists often speak about women’s spaces.  In a world completely dominated by men it is no surprise that women often find themselves desiring women’s spaces.

In a man’s world a woman is just a piece of property and a fuck toy.  Something to be used and abused as men see fit.

Considering that in man’s world women are always been brought down, it is no surprise that there are many everyday women walking around with very low self esteem.

Women are not only held back by sexist laws, customs etc, but when a woman believes she is just a worthless piece of shit and her main objective in life and purpose for living  is to serve men, then she is not a likely candidate to achieve much in life.  If women are constantly thinking so lowly of themselves, then they certainly won’t be able to pull themselves up to higher standards and achieve what God created them to achieve.

A male dominated society only offers women oppression and depression.

Women need their own spaces, where not only they can discuss female issues with out been run down by men, but also they need these spaces in which they can support each other hold and hold each other up and show that women have so much to offer this world and they can achieve so much and the only thing holding them back is male domination.

As one who firmly believes that women (and feminist men) need to support each other I was rather disappointed when I came across the following article on the MailOnline written by Abul Taher and Brendan Carlin on 30 October 2011.

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The Hattie Cabinet: Harman 'riding roughshod' over Miliband as she launches women-only frontbench team

Harriet Harman was yesterday accused of 'riding roughshod' over Labour leader Ed Miliband after she launched a new bid to boost the power of women Labour MPs.

Ms Harman, Labour's deputy leader, sparked fury among male party colleagues by announcing that the 11 women in the Shadow Cabinet were holding their own meetings.

They said Ms Harman informed the Labour leader of the plan – already being dubbed 'Harriet's Kitchen Cabinet' – at a full Shadow Cabinet meeting earlier this month.

One witness told The Mail on Sunday that towards the end of the meeting, Ms Harman mentioned that the women members would be meeting on their own. The source added: 'The blokes on the Shadow Cabinet just looked at each other as if to say, what the hell is all this about?

'Harriet then said that as the Tories were now losing the women's vote, it was important that we made sure our policies appeal to female voters.

'But even Ed looked a bit surprised and joked, “When are the men going to meet then?” and when nobody laughed, he said, “Sorry, not a great joke.”

'But it really is a load of politically correct, feminist claptrap. She's riding roughshod over Ed.'

When challenged about the meetings, Mr Miliband's office at first said Ms Harman had actually talked about meetings for all female Labour MPs – not just those in the Shadow Cabinet. But later the Labour leader's spokeswoman admitted Ms Harman had announced that women Shadow Cabinet members were about to meet but other female MPs in the party were also invited.

The spokeswoman denied that Ms Harman was dictating to Mr Miliband, saying he had been aware of the all-women gathering and was 'very supportive'.

She added that an earlier women-only event had taken place in the summer while the most recent was held in the Shadow Cabinet room at the Commons last week.

However, since then, The Mail on Sunday has been told that the Labour leader has rebuked his frontbench team over how details of the all-women meetings leaked out.

One source said: 'He told them all off at last week's meeting, saying someone in the room was leaking stuff from what are supposed to be confidential meetings.'

So fierce is Ms Harman's zeal for women's rights that the South London MP, 61, has been given the nickname 'Harriet Harperson' and 'patron saint of equality'.

As the party's deputy leader, she backed a controversial policy of all-women shortlists in Labour target seats at the last General Election.

However, she faced taunts after her husband, ex-union baron Jack Dromey, was selected as Labour candidate for a winnable seat in Birmingham and duly won it.

Ms Harman was told by William Hague: 'Your husband has just gone through an all-women shortlist to be selected. You may not want to recognise marriage in the tax system but you sure do in the political system.'

Last night, one senior male Labour MP who is angry at the formation of the new all-women group said he suspected it was partly a 'front-group' for an eventual leadership bid by the Shadow Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper.

The MP added: 'Of course we've got to appeal to women voters but it's as though the blokes have never met any women, don't know anything about them and don't want to.'

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I don’t know how most feminists feel about this.  But for me it is a sign that not only do women need their own spaces, but also that men think women’s spaces are stupid and unnecessary and will therefore try and sabotage them.

The reason for this could be because men just don’t care how women feel or they don’t want the oppressed to get together in case they realize just how oppressed they are, that they are worth a lot more then men allow them to think they are and horrors of horrors they may even start a revolution.