No. We have not. This is a feminist myth. Women have not been ‘oppressed since the beginning of time.’ ‘Oppressed’ is a strong word to use. Oppression could describe the people of North Korea; the slaves trapped during the Transatlantic Slave Trade, or the Jews in Nazi Germany. Oppression means […]
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What is a misogynist?
A person (usually a man) that hates women. A misandrist is a person (usually a woman) that hates men. I find the term ‘misogynistic’ to be often mis-used by feminists. Disney films have been accused of being ‘sexist’ and ‘misogynistic’ when I see nothing sexist about them. How is a […]
What Makes a Man or a Woman?
Genitals, obviously. When you’re born, the doctor looks at your genitals and says ‘it’s a boy’ or ‘it’s a girl.’ Suddenly the world has gone a bit crazy with this and decided to raise ‘gender-neutral’ kids, failing to realise significant differences between the genders. If men and women weren’t different, […]
Women in STEM subjects
The STEM fields represent roughly 85% of men and 15% of women in the UK. The same would be true of Psychology, except the stats are reversed. When I was in secondary school a company named Moody’s partnered up with my school to create a mentoring program in order to […]
Is rape a feminist issue?
Disclaimer: this post is not proposing a ‘solution’ to how to stop rape, it is looking at rape from a humanitarian perspective and refuting the claim that it is a ‘feminist’ issue. I know men and women that have been raped and sexually assaulted. What we view as assault may […]
Female Privilege
Feminists often claim that women are so oppressed and that it’s so hard to be a woman and that men have it so much easier. I don’t see how this is empowering at all; telling people that they are constantly oppressed (when they’re not, not in the West anyway) is […]