Dana Loesch, spokesmouth for the NRA, was at the Values Voter Summit, declaring the death of feminism. Just in case people didn’t quite get that, she reiterated.
“We are in a post-feminist era,” she said. “Feminism is dead. It is dead as a doornail*, it is dead. Feminism is dead.”
Saying that “third-wave feminism has betrayed” women, men, children and “our culture,” Loesch claimed, “Third-wave feminism exists to subjugate men, period. They have replaced the patriarchy with the matriarchy, and they are not a good master.”
:Looks around: Nope, this is not the republic of New Amazonia.
“Third-wave feminism says it empowers women—empowers them by convincing women to commit genocide against the female sex in utero,” she said.
Umm, no. You have that ever so backwards, Ms. Loesch. The power is the ability to make our own medical decisions and having full autonomy. Y’know, like men get to do already.
She added that “men are wonderful and they are unappreciated, and you know, you can mansplain all you want to because we womansplain enough.”
Well, if being mansplained is your thing, Ms. Loesch, have at it, but don’t be making that a blanket to cover all. As you think women talk too much, perhaps you shouldn’t be taking up space where a proper person could be talking, y’know, a man.
*This made me curious about the origins of said phrase, and the answer is interesting, having to do with clinching.
Also at the Values Voter Summit was Todd Starnes, who opined over the ‘war on masculinity’:
Starnes said that Mark Hancock, who runs the Christianity based scouting organization Trail Life USA, told him that the Boy Scouts’ decision was “nothing less than a war on boys.” Starnes elaborated on Hancock’s remarks to him, claiming that “the mainstream media” spread the notion of “toxic masculinity.”
“It’s not just a war on boys. It’s a war on men. And there are those in this country that want to feminize men. They want to criminalize masculinity,” Starnes said.
I guess Mr. Starnes didn’t get the message that feminism is dead.
A sentence which provides, by its implication that “feminisation,” is bad, an almost perfect example of why a feminist movement is still needed.
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My Granddad introduced me to clinching, but he called it a “poor man’s rivet.”
White right-wingers only like genocide committed against people who are a) born or b) brown.
Me @ 2
i.e. actual genocide not strawman genocide.
I don’t even know where to go with this.
Ogvorbis:
There isn’t anyplace to go with it. It’s the same old plaint, “females are invading every last sacred space of homosociality!”
Caine:
Sorry. I was reacting to that based on my history with scouting. And my initial reaction was to wonder: if what I did and what was done to me was not a “war on boys”, what was it? Utopian training for a misogynist world? Which is why I don’t really know where to go when I read something like that.
No need for sorry, I understood, which is why I don’t think there’s anywhere to go with it, because boy scouts has stayed, with determination, regressive, servicing many outdated notions, to say the least. This is an old complaint, that any move towards progress and current social mores will utterly destroy masculinity. Whereas teaching boys toxic masculinity is okely dokely.
At most, the hysteria merits an eyeroll, because it’s not like BS has all of a sudden become wonderfully inclusive in all respects.
A hoary simile.
“Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.
Mind! I don’t mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country’s done for.” — A Christmas Carol, Dickens
I wouldn’t worry about feminism being dead. in the third wave It’s the same thing right-wingers said about feminism in the second wave and the first wave. Of course, these same people have been declaring evolution dead for over a century and they spent earlier centuries declaring heliocentrism dead with great energy.
It seems nothing indicates a position is solid and healthy half as much as a right-winger declaring it dead.
Declaring an opposing view “dead” is a short way of saying “I haven’t got an actual argument against it.”
Every action seems to be a “WAR” on something that conservative idiots find necessary. It is almost as if they like the idea of war.
brucegee
I don’T think right wingers actually make it that far in the text. They read about Scrooge being a greedy asshole, cheer him one and are finished.
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I love women enjoying the liberties feminism gave them to take them away from other women.
Loesch wouldn’t be making that sweet, sweet NRA money if not for feminism. Even the fossils who run that organisation realise that you need to market things besides clothing and household cleaners to women in the 21st Century.
Tim @ 13:
Yes, they do, and they put a fair amount of money into marketing directed at women. If feminism died, and society went full tilt regressive in that respect, no more money from the women sector, and they’d be right unhappy about that.