socially acceptable bigotry is STILL bigotry. crazy, right?!

(poorly written due to lack of sleep and being spontaneously typed… might rewrite later [edit: nope!])

how i love irony… someone asked me if i still ‘did’ this stupid blog, and said how much he liked my posts and etc… this one’s triggered by him.  for all the wrong reasons.

lately, i’ve been “attacking” (or so they claim) bigots in the “progressive”/liberal/anarchist/activist/etc crowds.  which is… almost all of them, it seems.  sadly.

in short, virtually all of them claim to be for equality, and that they believe in equality.  but then, instead of promoting equality, they promote excessive discrimination.  now… maybe i’m just some kind of genius idiot, but shouldn’t it be common sense that if one believes in equality, one should treat people equally/not discriminate by “race,” sex, orientation, or etc?

instead, this is bizarro world (aka idiotland), where the OVERWHELMING norm favors female power (feminism), instead (and many, perhaps even the majority, also support black/brown power.  ugh.).  while claiming with a straight face that feminism is some kind of belief in equality.  that’s interesting… because it’s dead wrong.  belief in equality is egalitarianism.  not feminism.  and egalitarianism precedes feminism… by only about a century.  plus, if feminism was to be about equality:

- why have the word, itself, denoting sexism?  the word is not unisex.  the root, FEM, clearly infers female/feminine.  -ism essentially means belief in, advocacy.  in laymen’s terms, “female power.” and the movement is literally about the empowerment of females.  not equality.  the two concepts are mutually exclusive – ie: one can’t believe in both.  they contradict.  greatly.

- if equality is/was truly the goal, and sexism/bigotry was the practice detested… why does the “movement” use the same exact practice?  sexism can not be combated with… MORE sexism.  it’s utterly moronic and hypocritical.  sexism sucks… so… let’s fight it with sexism!  …what?

it’s clear why the early feminists didn’t simply choose the already existing “egalitarian” term/belief – they’re weren’t egalitarian.  just as the current feminists aren’t.

but here we are, with a ridiculous double-standard, where feminism isn’t just deemed as acceptable… it’s considered positive.  and yet masculinism (aka masculism), its identical counterpart, is considered sexist (it is!) and horribly negative.

ethically speaking, female power is just as bigoted as white power.  they’re the same.  they both practice discrimination based on the body one was born into.  nothing more.  female power is just as shitty as male power which is just as shitty as black power which is just as shitty as white power.

ethically/strategically speaking, given a goal of equality and a belief in equality – treating people equally makes FAR more sense.  it is perfectly logical/ethical, and actually yields results, rather than discriminating based on sex/race/etc.  which is bigoted, illogical (and entirely contradictory), and breeds more bigotry.

the one argument i keep hearing involves how females are behind and therefore, should be favorably discriminated.  not only does this make no sense for the above reasons, but:

- it bases treatment on nothing but a generalization.  some females are far better/worse off than others.

- it’s a fallacy.  it’s not 1980, anymore.  females are now outpacing males in education and employment.  ooops.  so i guess by the same “progressive” logic, they should be jumping on the masculinist wagon and promoting discrimination for males… right?  right?  oh.

(source: 2010 US census)

Women now occupy 51 percent of managerial and professional jobs, up from 26 percent in 1980. More women are graduating from college than men.

(different article)

In terms of finishing college, women surpass men in earning bachelor’s degrees, by 1.5 million

so congrats, kevan and others.  way to cling to ignorant bigotry and ironic hypocrisy, while claiming ethical superiority over your ethical equivalents – the nazi skinheads you loathe.

egalitarianism > any bigoted power.  period.

and regarding violence and the courts (criminal, civil court is a whole other issue [custody, etc]…)

“…Domestic violence committed by women against men is generally ignored or minimized, yet more than 200 studies have found that women initiate at least as much domestic violence (DV) against their male partners as males initiate against their female partners. Research shows that men comprise about a third of DV injuries and deaths. Women often compensate for their lack of physical strength by employing weapons and the element of surprise…

…The most recent large-scale study of DV was conducted by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers and published in the American Journal of Public Health. The study, which surveyed 11,000 men and women, found that according to both men’s and women’s accounts, 50 percent of the violence in their relationships was reciprocal (involving both parties). In those cases, the women were more likely to have been the first to strike. Moreover, when the violence was one-sided, both women and men said that women were the perpetrators about 70 percent of the time...

…In Hines’s study of male victims of domestic violence, 64 percent of the men who called a DV hotline were told that they “only helped women,” and over half were referred to programs for male perpetrators. Overall, only 8 percent of the men who called hotlines classified them as “very helpful,” whereas 69 percent found them to be “not at all helpful.” Worse, when an abused man called the police, the police were more likely to arrest him than to arrest his abusive female partner.“

while i’d love to rain on this bigoted parade, i’m sure this is barely a drop.

comments/arguments encouraged.  but you might want to skip the part where instead of making an argument, you moronically (and with utmost ignorance and hypocritically – sexism [to make an ignorant generalization based solely off one's sex]) just try to dismiss me as some privileged male.  and if you are going to make such a stupid claim, you better be able to support it.  it seems to be the standard response, and yet no one can tell me what this privilege is, or how i benefited from it.  i guess it had something to do with working fulltime since i was 16, and paying for my rent/school/etc, myself.  because clearly, these people (most of which went to college [and often yuppie schools, at that], without paying for a cent of it, many of which haven’t worked in their lives) had it so much harder than i.  working 50-65 hours/week while taking 15-21 credits (5-7 standard classes) and being independent/self-sufficient is sooooooooooo privileged.  clearly, i only had it so easy because of my sex.  and females should get preferential treatment over me, because they have vaginas, despite likely having it way easier, anyway.

i hate making a retort in advance, but since appx 45/50 immediately have jumped to that (this has been  discussed elsewhere), i just figured i’d get it out of the way.

honestly, i’d love to be proven wrong on this one.  but it’s not going to happen.  bigoted discrimination is bigoted discrimination.  it’s not somehow ethical or positive, just because you make a sexist/racist/etc generalization.  and especially when said generalization is proven to be outdated and inapplicable today.

but it’s ok, everyone – i have a penis.  and therefore, have some huge privilege that warrants being discriminated against.  under the guise of equality, no less…