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I wanted to put down some of my thoughts on feminism and test them a bit. Now if you are a leftist, i expect lot's of pushback. That's fine. If any of my thoughts are bad I welcome the discussion. But I ask that you appeal to me rationally and in good faith rather than being reactionary or reacting emotionally. Also sorry if any of this turns out to be incoherent or all over the place. I'm so sick i Can't sleep and high on DayQuill. Ok, and here we go

One issue i see with feminism is it has done more to undermine motherhood and accountability for women than anything. Women are actually applauded and encouraged to be dishonorable in the name of feminism i.e. abortion (for no reason other than not wanting the responsibility that comes with motherhood and Avoiding consequences of casual sex which i think is bad for the soul and I'm not even religious. For the record, i have no issue with abortion if the life of the mother is in jeopardy, and though I don't agree with abortion, i was fine in not over turning roe vs wade. Though even Ginsberg thought it should have been left up to the states on a constitutional basis.), onlyfans, promiscuousness.

I suspect a surprising amount of young women today will say cooking an cleaning in family life is degrading, working at McDonald's is degrading, but onlyfans is not. It seems to me that Modern feminism offers nor encourages no spiritual connection to the divine. In fact it conflates such mysticism with "the patriarchy." Feminism went from equality between men and women (which is kind of silly because women never wanted full equality as men and women are different and some things men do, generally speaking, women want no part of) as the goal to men suck and it's sexist and outdated to hold women to traditional standards of morality and femininity. Feminism champions the hairy-armpit-green-haired-sexual-exhibitionist lifestyle over motherhood, marriage and commitment. I'm not sure what to make of the fact that women initiate 70% of all divorces in the USA and China. Are men that much more the responsible? Also, kind of interesting, gay men have a 22% divorce rate, lesbians have a 72% percent divorce rate and heterosexual couples tend to be between 40-50% divorce rate) Men generally get screwed in no fault divorces too as our modern society has incentivized women to break up families. I also find it interesting that women who are virgins on their wedding day, have the highest chance of not getting divorced... it's almost as if there is ancient godly wisdom in Christianity that our society decided was oppressive or wrong. I don't blame women for all of it... women are engineered to go along with and uphold the social norms or status quo of a society (at least more so than men). Just look at female group dynamics. If a woman has 5 girlfriends and 3 of them don't like a guy this woman is dating, the other 2 won't either without much thought or consideration. Its also easier for women to walk away from marriage because throughout history women had to in order to survive (i.e. husband dies in battle, conquering tribe or nation moves in, and to protect her children and her self, she would find a new man in the conquering party and assimilate into the conquering party's tribe or nation.) imo, Christianity actually gave us the best chance at functional and thriving families but a huge portion of western civilization has decided the ways of God are outdated. This is my issue with the left on some things. They get so enamored with their own intelligence, wisdom and pride, that even the institutions of God that were tried in the laboratory of history are outdated instruments of oppression or patriarchy. Doesn't the bible say the wisdom of men is foolish unto God?

It really blows my mind you know? There's even been a gradual trend of women feeling unsatisfied and unfulfilled that correlates exactly with the progression of feminism (i can substantiate that finding). But women buy into this stuff because it sounds good. And I don't necessarily blame them, because it does sound good. Thomas Sowell said "the last 70 years can be characterized by saying we've traded what worked with what sounds good." I recall my mom saying many times to me over the years that women are emotional and that women operate on feelings. There's nothing wrong with that btw. Men and women are different. Does that mean women are unreliable narrators more than men? Maybe. What is the implication of that in marriage life or even at the societal level? A society 100% run by females and a society 100% run by males would look vastly different. We shouldn't be surprised by that. It's an interesting thought experiment to decipher the pros and cons of each. My current thesis is that while a matriarchal influence completes, and is ESSENTIAL, for family life, it doesn't, if left unchecked, scale well at the government level for the same reasons socialism and communism were utter disasters in the 20th century. Also, why is it that children raised by single dad's fare as well as children raised in a two parent household while children raised by a single mother fare much worse? (higher rates of crime, drug use, teenage pregnancy etc) it's almost as if masculinity which the left has demonized for decades is actually necessary and good in a child's life.
 
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You probably should have a reference section to all of the studies you allude to. I probably wouldn't worry about it though since JazzFanz is not the place for this discussion.
 
I am not fully finished with the OP but I wanted to address the idea that "feminism" has increased promiscuity.

Young people are having less sex with less people than ever (last 100 years). They are having sex for the first time later in life. There are more 30 year old virgins than ever (last 100 years).

Promiscuity has not gone up.

There is a loneliness epidemic happening right now.

All that said I don't think people having sex with other people is bad. I think being dishonest to your partner is bad, aka cheating, but other than that I think consenting adults should have sex with each other if they want to. I don't see the harm. I mean worst case scenario is she gets pregnant and lives in a state with restrictive abortion access.
 
I think the premise of the OP is not just off the mark but essentially opposite of reality. It seems that this argument against feminism is based on the idea that society is worse off than it used to be.

It isn't.

So the entire argument is invalid.
 
I am not fully finished with the OP but I wanted to address the idea that "feminism" has increased promiscuity.

Young people are having less sex with less people than ever (last 100 years). They are having sex for the first time later in life. There are more 30 year old virgins than ever (last 100 years).

Promiscuity has not gone up.

There is a loneliness epidemic happening right now.

All that said I don't think people having sex with other people is bad. I think being dishonest to your partner is bad, aka cheating, but other than that I think consenting adults should have sex with each other if they want to. I don't see the harm. I mean worst case scenario is she gets pregnant and lives in a state with restrictive abortion access.

You disgusting monster.
 
I am not fully finished with the OP but I wanted to address the idea that "feminism" has increased promiscuity.

Young people are having less sex with less people than ever (last 100 years). They are having sex for the first time later in life. There are more 30 year old virgins than ever (last 100 years).

Promiscuity has not gone up.

There is a loneliness epidemic happening right now.

All that said I don't think people having sex with other people is bad. I think being dishonest to your partner is bad, aka cheating, but other than that I think consenting adults should have sex with each other if they want to. I don't see the harm. I mean worst case scenario is she gets pregnant and lives in a state with restrictive abortion access.
it's much easier for women to get laid than it is for men. The 30 year old virgin... males are gonna dominate That pie chart.
 
I think the premise of the OP is not just off the mark but essentially opposite of reality. It seems that this argument against feminism is based on the idea that society is worse off than it used to be.

It isn't.

So the entire argument is invalid.
I wasn't very clear. I don't think feminism in inherently bad. I think women should be treated with respect and dignity and any aspect of feminism that aims for that is a good thing. I'm also in favor of a woman leaving an abusive relationship. Are there other aspects of feminism that are not good?
 
I wanted to put down some of my thoughts on feminism and test them a bit. Now if you are a leftist, i expect lot's of pushback. That's fine. If any of my thoughts are bad I welcome the discussion. But I ask that you appeal to me rationally and in good faith rather than being reactionary or reacting emotionally. Also sorry if any of this turns out to be incoherent or all over the place. I'm so sick i Can't sleep and high on DayQuill. Ok, and here we go

One issue i see with feminism is it has done more to undermine motherhood and accountability for women than anything. Women are actually applauded and encouraged to be dishonorable in the name of feminism i.e. abortion (for no reason other than not wanting the responsibility that comes with motherhood and Avoiding consequences of casual sex which i think is bad for the soul and I'm not even religious. For the record, i have no issue with abortion if the life of the mother is in jeopardy, and though I don't agree with abortion, i was fine in not over turning roe vs wade. Though even Ginsberg thought it should have been left up to the states on a constitutional basis.), onlyfans, promiscuousness.

I suspect a surprising amount of young women today will say cooking an cleaning in family life is degrading, working at McDonald's is degrading, but onlyfans is not. It seems to me that Modern feminism offers nor encourages no spiritual connection to the divine. In fact it conflates such mysticism with "the patriarchy." Feminism went from equality between men and women (which is kind of silly because women never wanted full equality as men and women are different and some things men do, generally speaking, women want no part of) as the goal to men suck and it's sexist and outdated to hold women to traditional standards of morality and femininity. Feminism champions the hairy-armpit-green-haired-sexual-exhibitionist lifestyle over motherhood, marriage and commitment. I'm not sure what to make of the fact that women initiate 70% of all divorces in the USA and China. Are men that much more the responsible? Also, kind of interesting, gay men have a 22% divorce rate, lesbians have a 72% percent divorce rate and heterosexual couples tend to be between 40-50% divorce rate) Men generally get screwed in no fault divorces too as our modern society has incentivized women to break up families. I also find it interesting that women who are virgins on their wedding day, have the highest chance of not getting divorced... it's almost as if there is ancient godly wisdom in Christianity that our society decided was oppressive or wrong. I don't blame women for all of it... women are engineered to go along with and uphold the social norms or status quo of a society (at least more so than men). Just look at female group dynamics. If a woman has 5 girlfriends and 3 of them don't like a guy this woman is dating, the other 2 won't either without much thought or consideration. Its also easier for women to walk away from marriage because throughout history women had to in order to survive (i.e. husband dies in battle, conquering tribe or nation moves in, and to protect her children and her self, she would find a new man in the conquering party and assimilate into the conquering party's tribe or nation.) imo, Christianity actually gave us the best chance at functional and thriving families but a huge portion of western civilization has decided the ways of God are outdated. This is my issue with the left on some things. They get so enamored with their own intelligence, wisdom and pride, that even the institutions of God that were tried in the laboratory of history are outdated instruments of oppression or patriarchy. Doesn't the bible say the wisdom of men is foolish unto God?

It really blows my mind you know? There's even been a gradual trend of women feeling unsatisfied and unfulfilled that correlates exactly with the progression of feminism (i can substantiate that finding). But women buy into this stuff because it sounds good. And I don't necessarily blame them, because it does sound good. Thomas Sowell said "the last 70 years can be characterized by saying we've traded what worked with what sounds good." I recall my mom saying many times to me over the years that women are emotional and that women operate on feelings. There's nothing wrong with that btw. Men and women are different. Does that mean women are unreliable narrators more than men? Maybe. What is the implication of that in marriage life or even at the societal level? A society 100% run by females and a society 100% run by males would look vastly different. We shouldn't be surprised by that. It's an interesting thought experiment to decipher the pros and cons of each. My current thesis is that while a matriarchal influence completes, and is ESSENTIAL, for family life, it doesn't, if left unchecked, scale well at the government level for the same reasons socialism and communism were utter disasters in the 20th century. Also, why is it that children raised by single dad's fare as well as children raised in a two parent household while children raised by a single mother fare much worse? (higher rates of crime, drug use, teenage pregnancy etc) it's almost as if masculinity which the left has demonized for decades is actually necessary and good in a child's life.

You've obviously been brainwashed by religion.
 
You've obviously been brainwashed by religion.
Haha nah. I'm not religious. But i do think there is wisdom in religion. On one hand I can see why such a large chunk of western civilization has discarded Christianity (which was key in building the west), but I think it will have consequences. For the West, Christianity was kind of like the joe ingles Glue of those good Don and Rudy teams.
 
Haha nah. I'm not religious. But i do think there is wisdom in religion. On one hand I can see why such a large chunk of western civilization has discarded Christianity (which was key in building the west), but I think it will have consequences. For the West, Christianity was kind of like the joe ingles Glue of those good Don and Rudy teams.
Religion filled a need.

We made religion for our benefit, many used religion against their own people and certainly against others. I don't think any of the specifics matter at all and I don't think religion is beneficial overall at this point in time.
 
Religion filled a need.

We made religion for our benefit, many used religion against their own people and certainly against others. I don't think any of the specifics matter at all and I don't think religion is beneficial overall at this point in time.
I think any road that leads to nihilism is rather problematic and demoralizing. Even in fields like psychology, when tends to be dominated by leftists, they've reached consensus that one of the pillars of a fulfilling happy life is living for something greater than yourself. Now, religion accomplishes that. All across the board, religious people have more kids too. Sans religion, you get a crappy secular ideology like... wokeism? To be clear, I am a proponent for equality and dignity for all. But I do not believe that is what wokeism has evolved into. that's a whole other thread topic though
 
I think any road that leads to nihilism is rather problematic and demoralizing. Even in fields like psychology, when tends to be dominated by leftists, they've reached consensus that one of the pillars of a fulfilling happy life is living for something greater than yourself. Now, religion accomplishes that. All across the board, religious people have more kids too. Sans religion, you get a crappy secular ideology like... wokeism? To be clear, I am a proponent for equality and dignity for all. But I do not believe that is what wokeism has evolved into. that's a whole other thread topic though
Wokeism has evolved into a right wing fantasy. Its very definition is like a cloud of smoke that cannot be grasped.

We don't need more kids.
 
Man, the trolls on this website sure are thirsty for attention
I think this poster is engaged in an honest discussion. They have less than 1000 posts over 12 years of being a member. I'm pretty sure they almost exclusively post in the Jazz section.

If you call every single person you disagree with a troll then it really makes that accusation weak coming from you.
 
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