Read The Douchebag Bible Online
Authors: TJ Kirk
Arkansas probably doesn’t have more privilege than
a black banker in New York City—privilege isn’t a big
tent that all of the subsets of a set stand under.
There’s also a question of cause and effect at
play: do white people have more privilege because
they have more wealth, or do they have more wealth
because they have more privilege?
Then there’s a question of how to quantify
privileges: how does male privilege stack up to
female privilege? Certainly, there are areas where
women are advantaged over males, and vice versa.
How do we measure different sets of privileges
against one another?
It’s not really as simple as some people wish it
were. A lot of people who make the “privilege”
argument want it to be “GROUP X HAS MORE
PRIVILEGE THAN GROUP Y THEREFORE
GROUP X IS EVIL.”
We need to move away from that sort of
argument, and start addressing the need for people
to be treated as individuals, not merely as extensions
of groups we perceive them as belonging to.
But such an approach would require modern
feminism to make concessions, and that's
something that they simply will not do. The way
feminists look at things is that half the country is
female, and males really don’t have the power they
once did, so women don’t have to really care about
extending the olive branch any more. Their attitude
is pretty much, “We will only accept non-females
into our fold if they prostrate themselves before us!
KNEEL, MALE SCUM, AND KISS THE RING. I AM
THE FEMINIST POPE AND I WILL PURGE THIS
WORLD OF NONBELIEVERS!”
They know that we’re not going to do anything
about it. So what’s to stop them? There are plenty of
women who hate men, hate masculinity and hate
masculine values. And they codify their bigotry as
part of an ideology to make it acceptable.
They’re a bunch of KU KLUX KUNTS.
Most human beings haven’t really caught up to
the fact that bigotry has evolved. Rednecks sitting on
couches hating blacks and Mexicans is passe.
They’re still out there—but they’re no longer
empowered. They’re a withered group of deflated,
defeated, bitter men.
The feminazis, however, are empowered. And
they’re organized. And they have mainstream
acceptability. They hide behind the guise of equality,
but what they really stand for is the solidification of
a new double standard that they promote, wherein
female values reign supreme over male ones.
It’s just another group of people looking for as
much power as they can get—human nature as usual.
All groups strive for power. For some, power is
desperately out of reach. For others, they’re
positioned just right. I think modern feminism is
poised for big things. I think they’re going to get a
lot more control, especially in academic circles.
We've already seen them hijack and conquer new
atheism, implementing draconian, male-blaming
rules for atheist conventions—led in their charge by
the aforementioned PZ Myers and the in(s)ane bigot
Rebecca Watson, more popularly known as The
Skepchick (she hosts a relatively popular podcast
and is a horrendous human being who's misandry is
outweighed only by her ego).
And what of female privilege when it comes to
reproductive rights? Think about this: Two people
have unprotected sex. Oops! They
both
made the
exact same mistake.
Here are choices a woman can make after that
mistake to abdicate herself of responsibility:
• The girl can take the morning after pill.
• She can take the one week pill.
• If she gets pregnant, she can get an abortion.
• If she gives birth to an unwanted baby, she can
legally abandon it at the hospital in most states.
Or she can give it up for adoption.
Here are choices a man can make after that mistake
to abdicate himself of responsibility:
•
•
•
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That’s why I think that a man should be able to say,
“I forfeit all responsibility for this child, but also all
rights to this child.” Women have several outs. Men
deserve at least one. The concept is called financial
abortion, and I am a proponent.
We can't talk about feminism properly if we fail to
delve into the feminist complaint that media is
saturated with a particular body image and female
aesthetic that girls and women are pressured to
conform to.
I think the impact of such things has been
exaggerated. We’ve always depicted beauty in art,
and it makes sense that our affinity for the lovely
would carry over into advertising. Why would you