First, you don't have to take this s**t. A friend of my ex's (that is, before the two women began hating each other), quite bright and a published author but very liberal and marinated in Toxic Feminism, was always bothered by her lack of a college degree and decided to avail herself of one. When she announced that she was doing "women's studies," I couldn't have stopped myself if Damocles' sword itsownself hovered above.
"Why God damn, Victoria - why would you major in that? You Already hate men."
Second, I have a standard phrase when someone utters the word - if it is a word - "feminist." "Oh, are you a feminist? ISN'T THAT CUTE!"
HIgh jinks invariably ensue, but I bear the armor of "I don't care" and a raucous belly-laugh that rattles rafters.
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On a serious note, last evening I read, "The Forgotten Heroine's Journey" by Jamie Wilson on PJ Media. In decades of struggling to understand the feminist lunacy I've never seen anything summarized so clearly or well. Yes, some women - Janice Fiamengo comes immediately to mind of course - understand where this 50+ year journey has led, and it ain't pretty. Let me see if I can scare up the link. Here you go:
Feminism has always been a luxury belief system enabled by convenience technologies, which themselves are derived from the excess energy contained in fossil fuels. In the coming centuries, as fossil fuel resources continue to decline and civilisation goes back to being simpler and less convenient, feminism will evaporate like a bad dream.
Women's studies by whatever title is just a religious cult masquerading as a field of study and should be kicked out of academia as just so much bunk. That said, women's studies majors and faculty in particular, are a unique breed that should be studied as any other pathological entity would. Let me share an amusing experience that captures who the typical empowered strong woman practitioner of women's studies really are.
Upon completion of my PhD in Earth System Science I took a position teaching science covering a teacher's sabbatical in the local high school. A couple of my students took issue with a decision I made regarding whether certain assignments should be counted in the first or second marking period (a decision that is truly the teacher's to make based on the work required and timelines involved). Despite the outcome of the decision having absolutely no impact on the grades any student would receive in either marking period, a couple aspiring premed young ladies took issue with this and in particular to my response to their complaint about it being unfair by pointing out that life is NOT always fair. By the next morning the first mother had left a message on the school phone for me to call. By the second period, the second mother had arrived at my classroom to debate the subject with me until I had to send her packing so the third period class could start. After the third period (now about 9:30 AM) when I got to the office, the first woman had again left a message demanding to know why I had not yet returned her call. Seeing that it was a university number I steeled myself for a lot of privileged but meaningless tongue lashing. My heart truly sank when the voice on the phone replied, "Good morning, Department of Women's Studies." I left an appropriate message but did not hear back from Mother 1 until I received a message that her HUSBAND would be coming to speak with me. This poor academic man, complete with tweed jacket with padded elbows, and I had a charming discussion in which he quickly realized that his daughter and wife had made much ado about nothing and that he would try to talk them off the ledge (something his weary expression suggest was not a rare occurrence). My relationship with the kids involved went on just fine...but the mother's had lost any actual power or engagement with me given their conduct.
Women's studies is the nest of the Karen...the overpowered but actually cowardly woman who seeks to exert power by bullying and nagging because she can't do so based on making a convincing rational argument.
True...but I rarely see women actually object to the benefits feminists grant them which makes them just as culpable for the misconduct of their sisters.
Feel free to use the analogy elsewhere. It also would make for a good soap opera about a Women's Studies Department. Instead of Falcon Crest we'd have Karens' Nest!
I seldom add comments to say the obvious, but I'll make an exception in this case. Tom, you'd get a D- for any course on women's studies, which is why you get an A+ from me. I like your style: lean and mean (but in a good way).
If i had my way i would force women to experience what men have to suffer, i would have them forced to sign for the military, send them to risk their lives on battlefields, inject them to make sure they have the same cravings for sex men have then extort money from them just as they do with men. i would send women to do the dangerous work men do, get the divorce courts biased against them, get education skewed to favour boys. Then i would accuse women of being privileged. let them see how it feels to be male.
Well said David. I would add give the men the power to send them to domestic violence gulags and have the DV industry do their bidding knowing that they would always be arrested if their husbands said so.
Seems to have degenerated into that. Men should be gentlemen and women should be ladies. Girls should be adored by boys - not trashed - and be adorable. Manners between the sexes need a return to politeness and courtesy.
The sexual revolution was not good for anyone. Girls became resentful of being treated like trash and boys were coarsened. Hugh Hefner etc have a lot to answer for.
Why do you suggest that Hugh Hefner as a proxy for men, has anything to answer for choices women made on the basis of pregnancy preventing medical technology?
Women are responsible for their choices, just as men are responsible for theirs. End of story.
Perhaps calling it 'Women's training' of 'Femfoctrination' might be closer to reality.
No matter the course title, in a liberal arts degree, Women's Studies has to be the softest of subjects (just turn up and have angry / persecuted / victim 'feelings' - those who get distinctions & high distinction are the ones with PMS on exam day), and most useless in the actual job market - waitresses need to be nice to men to get tips when serving coffee & cake for minimum wage...
They 'invent'' the notion of a 'patriarchy' to describe the natural order of gender roles, but in fact, through these schools & courses, actually create a 'matriarchy' - for nefarious purposes - and actively recruit members to their cause...
In the 1970s, Gloria Steinem knew having mom and dad in a child's life was best for the child. Despite that knowledge, Steinem feared that supporting equal parenting-rights would undermine the political objectives of the National Organization of Women (NOW). That decision knowingly subverted the needs of children and undermined fathers rights in order for NOW to gain a political advantage.
Erin Pizzey (a Brit who opened the first women's shelter) became a casualty of popular culture because of her belief that "we must stop demonizing men and start healing the rift that feminism has created between men and women." Pizzey knew "women and men are both capable of extraordinary cruelty" and was unafraid to say it.
So right Sean, they knew what they were doing. Ellen Pence, one of the creators of the Duluth model admitted in a later book that they were well aware of women's violence and mistreatment of their children, but they just ignored it.
To be fair, academia has existed to uphold a priori moral narratives for most of its existence. It's just that the prevailing narratives were usually explicitly religious rather than feminist and egalitarian. (I would argue the latter are implicitly religious.) If ever the purpose of the university system was open inquiry, it was a brief hiatus in a long reign of one dogma or another. I say this not to excuse the status quo, or imply there's nothing to be done about it, but only to point out the problem seems to be more general than this current iteration of it.
If I might make a few observations:
First, you don't have to take this s**t. A friend of my ex's (that is, before the two women began hating each other), quite bright and a published author but very liberal and marinated in Toxic Feminism, was always bothered by her lack of a college degree and decided to avail herself of one. When she announced that she was doing "women's studies," I couldn't have stopped myself if Damocles' sword itsownself hovered above.
"Why God damn, Victoria - why would you major in that? You Already hate men."
Second, I have a standard phrase when someone utters the word - if it is a word - "feminist." "Oh, are you a feminist? ISN'T THAT CUTE!"
HIgh jinks invariably ensue, but I bear the armor of "I don't care" and a raucous belly-laugh that rattles rafters.
***********
On a serious note, last evening I read, "The Forgotten Heroine's Journey" by Jamie Wilson on PJ Media. In decades of struggling to understand the feminist lunacy I've never seen anything summarized so clearly or well. Yes, some women - Janice Fiamengo comes immediately to mind of course - understand where this 50+ year journey has led, and it ain't pretty. Let me see if I can scare up the link. Here you go:
https://pjmedia.com/jamie-wilson/2025/10/22/the-forgotten-heroines-journey-why-feminism-leaves-women-spiritually-starved-and-men-adrift-n4945135
You already hate men! lol!!
James, while I agree with your overall comment, no feminist can be described as "bright".
Feminism has always been a luxury belief system enabled by convenience technologies, which themselves are derived from the excess energy contained in fossil fuels. In the coming centuries, as fossil fuel resources continue to decline and civilisation goes back to being simpler and less convenient, feminism will evaporate like a bad dream.
Women's studies by whatever title is just a religious cult masquerading as a field of study and should be kicked out of academia as just so much bunk. That said, women's studies majors and faculty in particular, are a unique breed that should be studied as any other pathological entity would. Let me share an amusing experience that captures who the typical empowered strong woman practitioner of women's studies really are.
Upon completion of my PhD in Earth System Science I took a position teaching science covering a teacher's sabbatical in the local high school. A couple of my students took issue with a decision I made regarding whether certain assignments should be counted in the first or second marking period (a decision that is truly the teacher's to make based on the work required and timelines involved). Despite the outcome of the decision having absolutely no impact on the grades any student would receive in either marking period, a couple aspiring premed young ladies took issue with this and in particular to my response to their complaint about it being unfair by pointing out that life is NOT always fair. By the next morning the first mother had left a message on the school phone for me to call. By the second period, the second mother had arrived at my classroom to debate the subject with me until I had to send her packing so the third period class could start. After the third period (now about 9:30 AM) when I got to the office, the first woman had again left a message demanding to know why I had not yet returned her call. Seeing that it was a university number I steeled myself for a lot of privileged but meaningless tongue lashing. My heart truly sank when the voice on the phone replied, "Good morning, Department of Women's Studies." I left an appropriate message but did not hear back from Mother 1 until I received a message that her HUSBAND would be coming to speak with me. This poor academic man, complete with tweed jacket with padded elbows, and I had a charming discussion in which he quickly realized that his daughter and wife had made much ado about nothing and that he would try to talk them off the ledge (something his weary expression suggest was not a rare occurrence). My relationship with the kids involved went on just fine...but the mother's had lost any actual power or engagement with me given their conduct.
Women's studies is the nest of the Karen...the overpowered but actually cowardly woman who seeks to exert power by bullying and nagging because she can't do so based on making a convincing rational argument.
Feminism is not about equality
It is an ideology based on nothing but hatred of men and boys and is really all about power and SPECIAL STATUS FOR WOMEN IN ALL THINGS
only certain women, of course....
True...but I rarely see women actually object to the benefits feminists grant them which makes them just as culpable for the misconduct of their sisters.
Actually seems like it is ALL feminists!
Nest of Karens!!! lol Enjoyed your comment!
Feel free to use the analogy elsewhere. It also would make for a good soap opera about a Women's Studies Department. Instead of Falcon Crest we'd have Karens' Nest!
I seldom add comments to say the obvious, but I'll make an exception in this case. Tom, you'd get a D- for any course on women's studies, which is why you get an A+ from me. I like your style: lean and mean (but in a good way).
Thanks Paul! I'll bask in that A+!! lol
Feminism is not about equality
It is an ideology based on nothing but hatred of men and boys and is really all about power and SPECIAL STATUS FOR WOMEN IN ALL THINGS
Feminism is the largest hate movement the world has ever seen
They hate 1/2 of world’s entire population
If i had my way i would force women to experience what men have to suffer, i would have them forced to sign for the military, send them to risk their lives on battlefields, inject them to make sure they have the same cravings for sex men have then extort money from them just as they do with men. i would send women to do the dangerous work men do, get the divorce courts biased against them, get education skewed to favour boys. Then i would accuse women of being privileged. let them see how it feels to be male.
Well said David. I would add give the men the power to send them to domestic violence gulags and have the DV industry do their bidding knowing that they would always be arrested if their husbands said so.
Feminism is not about equality
It is an ideology based on nothing but hatred of men and boys and is really all about power and SPECIAL STATUS FOR WOMEN IN ALL THINGS
Feminism is the largest hate movement the world has ever seen
They hate 1/2 of world’s entire population
None of it belongs in a university.
Exactly.
Feminism is not about equality
It is an ideology based on nothing but hatred of men and boys and is really all about power and SPECIAL STATUS FOR WOMEN IN ALL THINGS
Feminism is the largest hate movement the world has ever seen
They hate 1/2 of world’s entire population
Seems to have degenerated into that. Men should be gentlemen and women should be ladies. Girls should be adored by boys - not trashed - and be adorable. Manners between the sexes need a return to politeness and courtesy.
Very true and feminism is the primary cause of this situation today!
The sexual revolution was not good for anyone. Girls became resentful of being treated like trash and boys were coarsened. Hugh Hefner etc have a lot to answer for.
Why do you suggest that Hugh Hefner as a proxy for men, has anything to answer for choices women made on the basis of pregnancy preventing medical technology?
Women are responsible for their choices, just as men are responsible for theirs. End of story.
Perhaps calling it 'Women's training' of 'Femfoctrination' might be closer to reality.
No matter the course title, in a liberal arts degree, Women's Studies has to be the softest of subjects (just turn up and have angry / persecuted / victim 'feelings' - those who get distinctions & high distinction are the ones with PMS on exam day), and most useless in the actual job market - waitresses need to be nice to men to get tips when serving coffee & cake for minimum wage...
Feminism is not about equality
It is an ideology based on nothing but hatred of men and boys and is really all about power and SPECIAL STATUS FOR WOMEN IN ALL THINGS
Feminism is the largest hate movement the world has ever seen
They hate 1/2 of world’s entire population
They 'invent'' the notion of a 'patriarchy' to describe the natural order of gender roles, but in fact, through these schools & courses, actually create a 'matriarchy' - for nefarious purposes - and actively recruit members to their cause...
EXACTLY! Women's Studies are nothing but a training ground for misandry
In the 1970s, Gloria Steinem knew having mom and dad in a child's life was best for the child. Despite that knowledge, Steinem feared that supporting equal parenting-rights would undermine the political objectives of the National Organization of Women (NOW). That decision knowingly subverted the needs of children and undermined fathers rights in order for NOW to gain a political advantage.
Erin Pizzey (a Brit who opened the first women's shelter) became a casualty of popular culture because of her belief that "we must stop demonizing men and start healing the rift that feminism has created between men and women." Pizzey knew "women and men are both capable of extraordinary cruelty" and was unafraid to say it.
Pizzey, is keenly aware that the culture wars have demonized men for decades. (See Boys, A Rescue Plan: Moving Beyond the Politics of Masculinity to Healthy Male Development: https://www.amazon.com/Boys-Rescue-Plan-Masculinity-Development/dp/B0DRP8B74K)
So right Sean, they knew what they were doing. Ellen Pence, one of the creators of the Duluth model admitted in a later book that they were well aware of women's violence and mistreatment of their children, but they just ignored it.
Feminism is not about equality
It is an ideology based on nothing but hatred of men and boys and is really all about power and SPECIAL STATUS FOR WOMEN IN ALL THINGS
Feminism is the largest hate movement the world has ever seen
They hate 1/2 of world’s entire population
To be fair, academia has existed to uphold a priori moral narratives for most of its existence. It's just that the prevailing narratives were usually explicitly religious rather than feminist and egalitarian. (I would argue the latter are implicitly religious.) If ever the purpose of the university system was open inquiry, it was a brief hiatus in a long reign of one dogma or another. I say this not to excuse the status quo, or imply there's nothing to be done about it, but only to point out the problem seems to be more general than this current iteration of it.
bell hooks...
...Gloria Jean Watkins.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_hooks#:~:text=.com/-,Gloria%20Jean%20Watkins,-(September%2025%2C%201952
She claimed that she used lowercase in her pen name to "decenter" herself.
It seems to me that the unconventional use of lower case would call attention to itself, thereby "recentering" herself.
<"“patriarchy,” “privilege,” “internalized oppression,” “toxic masculinity.” These terms are...">
...ideological jargon.
or about women.
Femdoctrination... (bugs me the comment editing to fix typo's is so poor on SubStack)