The Elusive Mythology of Feminism

I’ll bet you’ve never seen a real feminist. Not in captivity, nor in the wild. I’m not even sure that real feminists exist. Maybe they never did. Let me explain what I mean by a real feminist. I’m referring to a person with two XX chromosomes, who identifies as a female, and lives life as a female, first of all. The next requirement is mental self sufficiency. Not necessarily in the sense of living in complete isolation, with no friends, no lovers, no children, and not loving anyone or feeling that other people are unimportant, although that would be perfectly acceptable for my definition if a particular female chose to follow that path. Mental self sufficiency is having an identity that is not defined by the parameters of others, meaning primarily that life choices are self-initiated, based only on one’s own desires and interests, and never a result of imbalance, coercion or compromise. The next requirement under my definition would be an unwavering support of other women, even in the face of social and societal pressures, as well as personal disagreement with other women’s beliefs or life choices. Many people don’t realize this but it is very possible to disagree with someone and support them at the same time. Holding this perspective often takes years of training, and a healthy amount of open-mindedness but it is actually a thing for some people. Finally, a real feminist doesn’t rely on hatred and rejection of men as the fuel for her ideology. There may be men that she hates because they’ve done something cruel or unjust, or maybe she simply prefers to limit her contact with men for personal reasons but she refrains from simply throwing all men into a trash can of rejection and loathing as punishment for them having the “wrong” genitalia. Feminism is supposed to be empowering for women, and unfairly judging or hating someone based on false perceptions is certainly not empowerment; it’s ignorant, fear based thinking that leads to pain and confusion, both in the women doing the hating, and men as the object of hate. I know I know, my requirements seem unattainable, perhaps even unrealistic for most women. Let’s face it, the overwhelming majority of women are jealous, petty, insecure, desperate for male attention and approval-hell, not just male approval, any approval, gossipy, overly-competitive, status-seeking, immature, and irrational. Alternatively, more passive women are often people pleasing, indecisive, passive-aggressive and needy. The list is endless but I think you get the point. Women would argue that if these negative traits do exist in many women, it’s the fault of endless oppression from the dominance of the “patriarchy” down through the centuries. I say bollocks. That argument relieves women of all personal responsibility for their own character flaws. By the way, the last requirement for my definition of feminism is personal accountability. Another trait that’s usually missing in the modern female, not to mention the fact that every single one of the previously mentioned negative traits only manifests as outward behavior in individuals who are unsure of their own self worth, and either over-compensating for that fact or projecting their worth onto the opinions and perceptions of others-the opposite of being empowered. Basically in Jungian terms, these women are acting out the unintegrated shadow. True empowerment can not exist in an individual with an unintegrated shadow. Feminist philosophy seems to leave that part out.

It turns out that my definition is much more complicated than the dictionary definition: Feminism is the belief in social, economic, and political equality of the sexes. Perhaps this is why feminism as an actual tangible, observable phenomena has yet to be observed in our material reality. You see, it’s actually impossible for anyone to have absolute equality with anyone else in any situation regardless of sex or gender because no two individuals are the same. The only thing that’s even remotely possible is equal treatment under the law, and even that is unlikely because judges and juries carry natural biases based on their unequal life experiences and perceptions; we have, however, managed to legislate for equal treatment under the law in western countries at least. It’s not perfect but it’s probably the best we’ve seen in recorded history. Most other countries haven’t even made it that far. Many Muslim countries, for example, still have legal accommodations for honor killings, and men beating their female relatives and wives as a punishment for disobedience. There is a clear and very visible deviation from the western standard in how women are treated socially and legally in places like Latin America, and southeast Asia. The social treatment of women in India is absolutely appalling at the best of times, especially women of lower caste. There are multiple countries where women being sexually assaulted or raped is the norm, and although laws may be in place to punish the perpetrators of these crimes, they are rarely enforced. So why are the so-called empowered western feminists so quiet when it comes to sticking up for their truly oppressed sisters in other countries? Where is the anger, and where are the hordes of women burning their bras? Where are the boycotts-like refusing to spend hard earned feminist money in locations where women are treated like crap on a daily basis? Then there’s the defense of migrants who sexually assault women and girls in western countries. Claims that they should be forgiven and protected because “they don’t know any better,” or “they just need time to adjust to a new environment.” “I am woman, hear me roar” seems to have turned into, “I am woman, so I’ll just go sit over here in the corner and shut up because I know my place.” All the anger seems to be reserved solely for western men. Sure, there are many western men who are certainly worthy of anger and disdain from women. This still doesn’t explain the double standard that many women are applying to men when it comes to the response for maltreatment and abuse. It seems that if a man is from a non-western country he is somehow excused when it comes to abuse, disrespect, and exploitation of women. If he is from the west, there is very little he can do that isn’t considered an instant offense in the eyes of the western feminist. This double standard on the part of western, mostly liberal feminists is nothing short of a betrayal to those women who have unfortunately been born into societies that devalue and silence them from the moment they exit the womb-sometimes even before that. Not so long ago, it was the custom in China to eliminate female fetuses before birth because a daughter was considered “undesirable” in the eyes of parents who often depended on their male children to financially support them in their old age. Although the custom has significantly decreased over the past few decades, it is still widely practiced, especially in poor and minority communities, and in particular in dealing with families who have had two or three children already, in which case female babies are often aborted by force. I’ve heard many self-identified “feminists” hold China up as a shining example of progress and advancement in the modern world, and yet these barbaric practices are commonplace, and often supported by legal statutes in this supposedly progressive country. In the face of this horror and inequity, feminists are by and large silent, instead focusing on proper use of pronouns, and the right of transgender women to use women’s restrooms. Instead of writing articles about the horrors of honor killings in some Muslim communities, they would rather focus on whether or not boys and girls should play with the same toys.

The western feminist lives in a world where women have achieved such a high level of equality and power that they now need to invent issues in order to keep themselves busy. Meanwhile, women in other parts of the world are dealing with real life, practical, sometimes life and death challenges that afflict them on a daily basis. Challenges and pitfalls from which there are no escapes, and no legal protections. Where are the protests for these women? Where are the pussy hats and rage fits? The modern feminist has become a snapshot composite of the modern narcissist; therefore, we will never see a protest for these foreign oppressed women because they live in a far away fairytale that doesn’t exist within the limited paradigm of the western feminist. The days of western women being beaten or killed just for being themselves have long since been forgotten, and the western man, barbarian though he may be, is all in all the most tolerant and respectful of his kind. He has been whipped and stripped of his dignity by the false “feminism” of the west, and in his general state of castration, he holds up as sacred the useless doctrines and concerns of this disgusting destructive philosophy that demonizes the family and children, offers a twisted vision of male/female relationships, and utterly rips the community apart. He doesn’t know any better because his mother was a feminist, and she destroyed his soul from an early age at feminism’s command. She subconsciously taught him that being male is an evil curse that he should be ashamed of. She silently conveyed her preference for the female child, and went along with the crowd while they turned the western male into a societal joke, worthy of ridicule and disdain. She constantly informed him of how wicked and worthless his father is and was, not realizing that a child’s mind will naturally take on the sins of his father, and carry them on his own back because his undeveloped psyche doesn’t know any better. Many western men walking the Earth right now are the progeny of women who subconsciously detest them. The western feminist philosophy now relies on the unfair demonization of ALL western men, when it should be laser focused on the holistic completion of the female soul. This completion wholly depends on a healthy relationship with the divine masculine image within the self. Wholesale hatred of men ultimately leads to the psychological destruction of the woman doing the hating- and unfortunately, she drags the unsuspecting males she interacts with intimately along with her.

The whole woman-the complete and healthy woman would only hold contempt in her heart for those persons who had earned it by their own foul actions. She would recognize that an entire group of people can never be held responsible for the actions of an individual or small pod within that group, and she would take in possibly the most important lesson of all, which is that one must always choose battles wisely. Some things are worth fighting for, and some are not. The western woman currently holds a powerful voice that can be utilized to accomplish great and wonderful things in the world. It seems as though the western woman’s voice has been co-opted, and is being used to promote fluff and idiocy. There are a multitude of real feminist causes that are more than worthy of attention and action. Child marriage, sex trafficking that is often initiated by a girl or woman’s family members, forced child labor and military enlistment, abuse and murder of women by family members and spouses, debtor slavery, forced abortions, denial of education based on biological sex-seriously, when it comes to human beings experiencing human rights abuses I could go on all day. The feminist must realize by now that in order to find the most obvious and heinous of these abuses, she should focus her purview beyond the borders of her own country. That doesn’t mean that she will not find some of these horrific abuses within the borders of western countries because she most certainly will but even when she does, she rarely speaks up about it-at least not loudly. The loudest protestations are often the most inane. Someone has been misgendered, or someone who identifies as a female but still has a penis and large muscles has been barred from playing sports on a female team; these are the incidents that garner the most attention-at least in the media. The little girl whose clitoris has just been sliced away by some shady doctor in a back room in London by order of her own father gets little to no media attention. Apparently it’s not newsworthy, and certainly not worthy of protest. Feminism has now become synonymous with insanity, and anyone who observes the nonsensical platform of the average feminist from the outside can easily confirm the madness in its claims. Further, she finds it nearly impossible to defend the rights of her forlorn foreign sisters because she is a slave to the ideas of cultural relativism, and protecting the rights of members of any and every culture to practice their sometimes cretinous and medieval traditions anywhere, anytime, often at the expense of women.

Imagine how effective it would be if millions of true feminists took up the cause of protecting the rights of little girls to keep their clitorises in tact, and focused their attention on making sure that the doctors who performed the surgeries, and the fathers and mothers who paid for them all received jail time for the injuries inflicted upon those girls. Imagine if every honor killing was met with an outcry impossible to ignore. Imagine if feminists didn’t turn a blind eye to sex trafficking, and treat it as though it’s some natural and perfectly acceptable part of certain cultural traditions and travel experiences. Imagine if they boycotted travel to countries where this type of female abuse is the norm, or at the very least frowned upon it, and spoke up against it while they were there. Imagine if feminists didn’t travel to India, and beam about the “spiritual” experience while surrounded by sex offenders and modern day slaves. Perhaps you can’t imagine it, and honestly, neither can I. At least not until the so-called feminists of the western world get their own shit together enough to recognize that most of what they complain about is imaginary, while real monsters doing real damage sit back and laugh.