It’s just in your nature to want to be ravages and taken against your will. The sooner you accept it the sooner you can enjoy the pleasure of being a rape doll for men.
Every one I’ve ever fucked at least ;)
It’s okay to admit it.
So much better than those “I need feminism because” signs.
There’s literally nothing more sad and scary than a woman against feminism.
Literallynothing.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Translation:
“I live such a privileged lifestyle and I’m so desensitized to all the REAL horrors of this world that, literally,the saddest, scariest thing I can think of is other women who think for themselves and consider my ideological leanings to be suspect and/or wrong.”
Women can abuse, rape, sexually assault and demean men just as much as the reverse. Any attempt to downplay this reality or reject the idea at all makes you a raging sexist and rape apologist, and enabler, not to mention a terrible person generally.
Feminism fights both mysogeny and misandry
Why should we?
Feminism is fighting for women’s liberation. Why are all of men’s problems ours to solve as well?
Why aren’t we allowed to focus on our own shit?
Black Lives Matter doesn’t have to advocate for white people in order to be taken seriously.
LGBT movements don’t have to include straight ppl in every single argument in order to be seen as a legitimate organization.
But somehow women aren’t allowed to center ourselves in our own activism or else we’re “just as hateful as misogynists” and “being selfish”.
Fuck off with that shit.
Then stay in your lane!
Stop comparing yourselves to men when you dont even understand what men deal with.
Stop gendering issues that are not gendered, thus gendering the solutions.
Stop attacking men and masculinity.
Stop making up new buzzwords to blame men for gender neutral behavior.
Stop boycotting talks about issues men face.
Stop protesting gender neutral rape definitions.
Stop boycotting and closing down abuse shelters.
Stop normalizing discrimination against men.
Stop making biased and sexist studies about men.
Stop getting angry when peopl3 point out the bad in your movement and actually do something about it.
Stop claiming to support gender equality. Stop insisting that feminism is the one and only solution to gender inequality. When you claim to support gender equality, (literally like the person above you did) people will expect you to uphold that.
Feminism has a looooooooong history of opposong equality when women do not benefit. If feminists had stayed in their lane, people would stop expecting feminism to do more. We judge you by your actions, good AND bad. If you claim to support men, we expect you to uphold that.
And glad you brought up Black Lives Matter because they did the SAME THING. When other groups tried to be included, including groups like native americans, who experience police brutality more often, BLM silenced them while also claiming to support them. But where is the support? All they did was equate All Lives Matter (started by native americans and Latinos who were silenced by BLM) into something white people could be blamed for. When they claim to be helping everyone, but dont uphold their claim, people will complain.
But anyway, peopledont have a problem with feminism because they talk about women.
It’s because they also oppose equality for men. It’s because they will outright admit to hating men. It’s because while not all feminists are man-haters, you will have a very hard time finding a man-hater who isnt a feminist. It’s because these bad feminists are arguably the majarity. The unchallenged majority, because feminism has made it so criticizing the movement (without singling out white women) is equivalent to misogyny.
You want people to see feminism as only about women? You want feminism to not be seen as man-hating and regressive?
Then once again, im telling you:
Oh shit, I forgot I was personally all feminists.
Well if I’m all feminists, you must be all misogynistic men. So how about:
You stop forcing young girls to be child brides.
You stop women from being sex trafficked and then told that speaking out against the sex industry is being a swerf.
You stop girls from having their genitals mutilated because they aren’t allowed to find pleasure in sex; the only pleasure that matters is their husbands.
You stop the practice of honor killings, which happen all around the world because a raped woman is seen as an unpure woman.
You stop thousands of Chinese families from drowning their infant daughters because they wanted a son and daughters are viewed as useless.
You stop women from being raped and watching their rapists walk free because she had one drink before he brutalized her, or because she was wearing a short skirt, or because he had a bright future ahead of him.
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I have male friends, I’ve always been close with my dad, and there are causes for men that I will fight for (fair custody agreements, mental health, rights and dignity for gay men).
But if you think that I’m going to stop talking about female genital mutilation and rape and drownings and trafficking and victim blaming and shame and fear and the hatred some men have for women, you’re sorely mistaken.
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Also, I don’t give a fuck about Cassie Jaye changing her mind on feminism. It happens. People are, in fact, allowed to have various opinions.
I could bring up that I used to be an anti-sjw egalitarian who— funnily enough— used to follow you for that content until I realized that egalitarianism is just a circle jerk of “well yes women have problems, but people tell men that they can’t cry! so if feminists don’t focus on that, they’re a bunch of crazy radical harpies who hate men and want us all to die”
And that’s not standing for anything. It’s just standing against feminist because it has a purpose, not just a woe is me free-for-all like egalitarianism.
Your argument was that feminism, as a movement, was about women. And you were insulted that I would “make it about men”.
Well feminism is a group. It’s a movement and an ideology, which is judged by the actions of its members. They are judged on both the good and the bad. And before you decide to join a group/ideology/movement, it is your responsibility to research both the good AND the bad to see if you want to be associated with it.
The difference between me being a man and you being a feminist is that I dont choose to be a man. But you choose to be a feminist. I cant be judged on what men do or what black people do. That’s bigotry (which you seem to be fine with). What *isnt* bigotry is judging members of groups/movements/ideologies on the collective actions of their members. This is why it’s acceptable for you to generalize Republicans or democrats or hippies, muslims, or the salvation army, PETA.
The fact you cant tell the difference between judging people by their choices and who they associate with vs. How they were born is telling.
The bad in feminism is rampant. Closing domestic abuse shelters for men, opening biased abuse rehabilitation programs, gendering crimes like rape and domestic violence to the point of changing/gendering laws, etc. If the good in feminism were powerful or numerous enough l, these would have been stopped. But they werent. Merely mentioning them gets you accused of misogyny. Highly influential feminists are spreading gender inequality at a systematic level and instead of combating them, your combating me…for pointing it out.
If you want feminism to be viewed as something other than man-hating, then do something about it. Stop getting mad at the people pointing out the bad and actually work to fix it. Your movement is deeply flawed, arguably regressive, and currently an active opposition to gender equality. Dont like that? Work to change it. Until then, I will view egalitarianism much more highly than feminism.
It’s kinda like that whole thing with the Crips and the Bloods out in Cali and those laws passed around the 80’s— I’m pretty sure. Timeline doesn’t matter for this. The point is that the gist of those laws was that if you joined one of those gangs— the Crips or the Bloods— you were culpable for anything they did. Doesn’t matter if you had any part in the specific incident or not. If some guys from your gang shoot up a place or stab a guy, you’re culpable by the very act of joining the gang in the first place.
You chose to associate yourself with a certain group, and then you don’t want the actions of the worst members of your group held against you? When you willingly signed up as part of it? I don’t know what to tell you. You joined the gang, you’re culpable. If you don’t like it, don’t associate yourself with that group. Have your own opinions without a label or start your own group and do it better. But don’t get offended when a label you willingly slapped on yourself isn’t as good of a look as you thought it would be. Getting pissy at everyone else because of something you did to yourself is not the move you think it is.
Women are sluts, whores, cunts and bimbos..men cannot be sluts when they get their cocks wet, that’s the utter truth. When a man gets his cock fucked or sucked, it’s the bimbo women who gets all the blame. Men are simply blowing their load and there is nothing wrong with that. Men are smart and have big cocks and women are dumb and have big holes. There’s a reason women are called bimbos and men aren’t.
Feminist claim they want gender equality, but have remained silent for nearly 40 years on the gender exclusion of women from registering for the draft under the Selective Service law. This silence didn’t stop them from incessantly bitching about the gender exclusion of women from combat roles by the military as sexism though. Hypocrites to the nth degree.
Fast forward 35 years and the military kowtowed to feminist bitching, revoking the female exclusion from combat roles. However, the female exclusion from the draft was justified due to their inability to fill combat roles. With the latter gender exclusion obliterated, the former now has no merit.
A federal district court in Houston has held that because women are now permitted to serve in combat roles in the U.S. military, all women must be obligated to register for the draft, just as men do.
I’m dying to hear the feminist response to this. Agree and they alienate the 50 million women who have zero interest in fighting in combat. Disagree and they once again prove themselves to be total hypocrites.
Feminists say women don’t want to be objectified for their bodies and gawked at. Feminists say men who do that are sexists and women are all innocent victims of patriarchal oppression.
Feminists are all just flat assed, low self-esteemed whiners with a bad case of the ugglies, jealous nobody gawks at them
Lenny Letter, Lena Dunham’s feminist newsletter, is shutting down. Dunham, who founded the newsletter in 2015, intended for it “make the world better for women and the people who love them,” according to the email the newsletter sent to new subscribers.
(Aside: Feminism does not make the world better for women - it makes them depressed, angry, and/or fearful at all times, which is a miserable way to exist)
But in its email to subscribers on Friday, it said “today because this is Lenny’s final chapter.”
(Aside: I’ve always been squeamish about the lyrics to The Misfits “Die, Die, My Darling,” but in the context of Lenny’s death I cued it up and listened completely guilt free - great song)
The newsletter said “there’s no one reason for our closure,” but a report in Digiday said that the newsletter had always struggled to gain ad support.
(Aside: Feminists pretend they are universally approven by women and only mysoginistic men despise them, when th truth is they are a miniscule unsupported minority who only get their way by bitching incessently until people get worn out and capitulate. Point proven!)
One feminist cult rag down, too many to count to follow, but the tide is a turning :-)
Feminists are evil. When they can’t force their gender bender ideals on adults, they prey on impressionable children. Don’t believe me? Read the key points below from an article on a feminist school in Iceland…
REYKJAVIK, Iceland — Elia climbed onto the table in front of her classmates. She threw her fists into the air and jumped on to the blue mats below. “I am strong,” the 3-year-old said, her eyes alight with pride and exhilaration.
On the other side of this nursery school in the chic neighborhood of Laufásborg, boys were practicing having “gentle hands” by massaging each other with lotion.
Founded in 1989 by self-described radical feminist Margrét Pála Ólafsdóttir, Hjalli schools aim to counter stereotypical gender roles and behaviors.
Boys and girls are separated for most of the day and they actively compensate for their gender by practicing behaviors usually associated with the other sex: from being daring and taking the initiative to helpfulness and being considerate of others.
At a nearby Hjalli elementary school one recent day, two 9-year-old boys were pretending to be babysitters.
At other stations around the room, boys styled each other’s hair, painted on nail polish or gave each other full-body massages.
“The dolls are only for the boys. The girls don’t need to practice this,” explained Cardew, who said she does structured gender compensation work in class about once a week depending on how much she deems it’s needed.
“When you only have girls, there is nothing girly anymore, it’s like the gender stereotype goes away,” she said. Meanwhile, boys are no longer regarded as “girly” or “sissy” if they show an interest in stereotypically female activities.
In the woods behind the school, the girls’ activity was also causing some problems. Participants were supposed to be climbing trees and walking along walls.
Unless it’s an actual emergency, the teachers at this elementary school are slow to respond to calls for help [from girls].
Crying is particularly discouraged and weeping girls are promptly told to stop.
“People find this a bit ruthless but we’re making women weaker by not stopping them,” said Cardew, who explained that this was the “extreme weakness” of the girls.
She said that girls have traditionally been “taught to use tears to express ourselves.”
For Ólafsdóttir, so-called controlled crying would fall under the “pink haze” category.
The Hjalli model’s effect on children remains unclear.
Ólafsdóttir was even accused of trying to change children’s sexuality.
And it’s that last line that tells the tale. Feminism is a fraud. If it was about gender equality a feminist school would be teaching gender equality, but they don’t do they? They teach something far, far different.
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This anti-feminist and anti-ERA book argues that the housewife is the most important person in the world and that the women’s liberation movement is the threatening all that we hold dear (see the image of the women’s liberation bomb dropping on the home). Authored by Jacquie Davison, the booklet discusses the founding of H.O.W. (or the Happiness of Women organization) that sought to counteract N.O.W. and the proposed Equal Rights Amendment.
Davison believed that women could find happiness only in the home, men were the ultimate decision makers, and that women did not need to be liberated from anything. Her organization’s goals included keeping sex ed out of schools, getting prayers back in school, and stopping the legalization of marijuana. The book also includes an essay from Phyllis Schlafly listing the reasons why American women are the most privileged people in the world. One reason is the financial benefits of chivalry. Fan letters (from both men and women) to H.O.W. are also included. One women writes that “this equal rights lib is for the birds.”
This one goes out to all you young sluts out there that eagerly and willingly betray your gender and give yourselves and your bodies over to a man’s pleasure and control.
Betraying my gender right now
It’s great to see good girls like sluttyblondething reblog this!
Fuck feminism. I’m so tired of having it shoved down my throat by people who pick apart every word of what I say. Just because I used the word slut doesn’t mean I’m trying to offend you. It’s not my fault if you’re offended that I used the word slut. You don’t even know me. You can’t change how I think.
What makes people think that they can sit at home on their computer, rewrite definitions like “Racism”, and expect the whole world to follow them? Black people can be racist, women can be sexist, Christians can be discriminated against. They’ve had their own definitions since before you were born, and you sure as hell don’t get to decide what it means. You sitting on your little IPhone 5, telling us reasons that that isn’t true, isn’t going to change that. You aren’t our authority. Think what you want. Don’t try to force others to.
can be refused admittance to a shelter on the basis of their gender
get the same prison sentences for the same crime
aren’t congratulated on TV for cutting off their husband’s dick
can be refused custody of their children due to their gender
can’t rape a man and then sue him for child support if they become pregnant
can’t get away with lying about rape/abuse and will be punished it they’re caught lying
are called freeloaders and deadbeats for being a homemaker
can’t wear masculine clothing without being harassed
are punished for lying about taking birth control like men are for sabotaging a comdom
having a women’s only space is deemed sexist
can’t give up parenthood unless her boyfriend/husband allows it
can’t be misandrists without being called out for their sexist behavior
I never see feminism advocating for these things. Weird, huh?
I tried to keep this list away from things like statistics and things that would require the word “more” in the statement (ex: “…until more women join labor intensive fields”). I also tried to stay away from generalizing statements, instead rewording them to make them less, well, generalizing (ex: “…until women stop lying about being raped” to “…until women can’t get away with lying about being raped”). If you add on to this list, I ask you to do the same.
If you don’t understand a bullet point, please feel free to ask what I mean by it.
Both genders should know how to change diapers. Both genders should be expected to pay for their meals. Both genders should know how to cook. Both genders should know how to start fires, cut wood, and pitch tents. Both genders should wash dishes, clean, and do laundry. Both genders should be able to defend themselves. Both genders should be able to sew and repair clothing. Both genders should know how to change a tire and oil. Both genders should learn basic first aid skills. Both genders should be able to garden and hunt for food.
They’re basic life skills. (I’m adding from the comments)
Modern feminists have no problem complaining about how unfair the taxing of tampons and pads are… Where are they for the women in Middle-Eastern countries who are being raped, beaten, and killed? Or is that less of a priority? While you’re protesting the wage-gap, their lives are in danger. Is modern feminism really that selfish? Help them to be treated as humans before you worry about man-spreading.
I find it ironic how one of the greatest enemies of feminism is the objectification and sexualization of women. Yet when a strong, independent women such as Rihanna dresses in a sheer full length gown, it is suddenly empowering and female-positive.
I find it ironic how feminists find it acceptable for women to use their bodies and sexuality to sell themselves, but when they consensually use their bodies to sell other people’s products or brands, it is suddenly oppression. Is this a double standard or am I missing something?
I need feminism because… We are strong, independent women!
If you truly are strong, independent women, you would not be relying on feminism to address issues and hardships that most women are very capable, yet unwilling, to address themselves. Feminism relies on strong, independent women to prove that women are capable of showing the same equal levels of determination, talent, power, influence, resilience, toughness, persuasiveness, validity, devotion, leadership, and intellectual ability as any “male privileged” successful man or successful women.
Strong and independent women are, more often than not, enlightened enough to realise that they don’t need feminism, feminism needs them. Feminism needs strong, independent women to validate its claims about females being strong and independent. Don’t you see? Feminism rides on the back of successful, self empowered women, and steals the credit and recognition of their achievements to further push its own agenda!
This is what makes feminism (the first-wave, first-world modern “feminism”), such a dangerous and greedy political movement. It manipulates women into developing victim complexes before convincing them that they need this movement to help empower themselves to become strong and independent women.
I am a woman. I firmly believe that almost every single woman in modern, first world countries have the opportunity of developing and improving themselves to become a strong, independent, self-empowered members of society. Some people act on these opportunities, some people prefer not too. Some people are overwhelmed by the struggles they may face, some people eat their struggles for breakfast. What I am saying is that we have equal opportunities and equal rights under law. What we choose to do with what we have access to is up to us.
Besides, not all women poses is the drive and determination to become super-women-major-media-recognition powerhouses. That is okay. If it makes you happy and fulfilled, be a stay at home mum, view your partner as the head of your household, that still doesn’t make you any more or less strong, independent or empowered in your own way. Don’t let feminism convince you otherwise.
I want to post this to counteract out the sickening amount of posts that blame the patriarchy/male privilege/men for this tragic event. For those who use the suffering of others to promote their own agenda. To those who use this massacre to insist that our society pre-conditions men to believe that they have the right to sex:
Assuming that our society has a system that teaches men from birth that they have the right to have sex with women is assuming that all men have been conditioned to think this way, and therefore currently DO think this way. The only people who actually think they have the right to sex… are rapists, not simply the entire male gender. Elliot was a psychopath, and to parallel his motives with innocent men who are also saddened by the massacre is very misguided.
I have a brother, father, uncle, boyfriend, more male friends than female, and to see so many women on my dash this morning making unfounded statements about men, absolutely sickens me. Everyday men do not display the same sentiments that Elliot expressed.
Here are two quotes from Elliot Rodger’s manifesto: “I will torture some of the good looking people before I kill them, assuming that the good looking ones had the best sex lives. All of that pleasure they had in life, I will punish by bringing them pain and suffering.” and “On the morning before, I will drive down to my father’s house to kill my little brother, denying him of the chance to grow up to surpass me, along with my stepmother … as she will be in the way. ”
Four men and two women are in an early grave because a psychotic man had a jealous rampage fuelled by sexual frustration. I don’t understand the amount of mental gymnastics people have to jump through to come to the conclusion that his actions weren’t spurred by any mental illness from those quotes alone. Just because one murderer/potential rapist/psycho made some inherently sexist comments about women to justify his actions, does that give people the right to presume that all men think like this?
Can we stop stereotyping and generalizing the entire male gender over the actions of one mentally-unstable human? Can we just get back to supporting the victims families.
I am so fucking done with seeing feminists blame the patriarchy (aka men) for essentially causing poor body image issues in both women and men. I don’t understand how they can’t understand that both genders face equally unrealistic beauty standards, and that both genders are equally guilty of perpetuating these standards.
The fact that feminism often implies that only women suffer from poor body image, and that it goes as far as to blame it on men, is incredibly ignorant, bigoted, and hateful. It completely ostracises an entire gender from a movement that is meant to be about equality, because of the way they guilt trip men into thinking that it is always their fault.
Take a look at this very interesting study. All four of these amalgamated human images are examples of unrealistic beauty standards. Here’s the kicker: which gender is behind the more extreme thinspo triggering ‘perfect body’ example for females?
Bother genders are their own worst critique. Stop blaming men. Stop excluding men. Stop claiming to be about equality when you still try and justify that these standards are still completely mens fault. Both genders face beauty standard pressures. Stop making it a solely female issues.
“I need feminism because… too many of my friends believe in equality but don’t think they are feminists”
This is probably because too many of your friends have a better understanding of what real equality is. I will say it again, in developed societies we already have equal rights and opportunities and are protected by law, and if either gender feels like they are being discriminated against they have equal right to take action by law. But feminism isn’t content with just equality and is actually spreading some really damaging propaganda…
I will start from the beginning: Every single primitive human society that has been documented or observed has followed the same pattern: Men hunt and protect, women care and nurture. That isn’t a coincidence. That is human nature. Those are our hardwired instincts. Those instincts (and other biological factors) are what give men and women their own physical and emotional differences. There are certain traits, behaviours, thoughts and actions that are typical of the male gender (typical, but not exclusive). Likewise, there are certain traits, behaviours, thoughts and actions that are typical of the female gender (again typical, but not exclusive). These all came from our instincts that helped us survive through the early stages of the human race.
Obviously the human race has progressed far enough to no longer need or rely on such a system of gender roles to survive, but that doesn’t mean we have evolved out of that instinctive set of behaviours. The majority of men are still going to want to be bread winners and protectors to support the family. The majority of women will still have that maternal instinct to care and nurture for their family. It isn’t because either party are oppressed or oppressors, it’s just how female and male genders have been hardwired.
The thing I dislike about new wave feminism is that it demonizes these typical male and female dichotomies and calls them evil. The only evil is in the individuals who choose to judge each other based on gender stereotypes (For example, those who laugh at men who bake, or those who undermine women in the construction industry).
Feminism is going so far as to pressure women into feeling that they need to be in male dominated areas of study, work and politics otherwise they are somehow being oppressed. It also guilt trips those who want to be stay at home mothers and tells them that their desires are the result of male oppression. It then shames men for simply being the gender majority in certain areas of study, work and politics. Feminism is spreading the ideology that being a woman in a male dominated area is feat deserving of more respect than an equally competent man in the very same situation.
My view on gender is much like the Chinese philosophy of Yin and Yang: “Yin and Yang are actually complementary, not opposing, forces, interacting to form a whole greater than either separate part.” (I use this in the context of society, not marriage or relationships)
Yes we are equal, but for beautifully different reasons. There is nothing wrong with stepping outside gender normatives, and there is nothing wrong with being content with them either. Stop telling me I have to be more like a man to be more of a woman.
*Please don’t misinterpret this and presume that my argument excuses males who abuse females because of their “instincts” (I know someone is going to try bring it up). That is taking my argument out of context and twisting it to fit your own agenda.
“I need feminism because… I definitely deserve to get PAID as much as (or more than) anyone else.”
- If you are a casual worker, you do not deserve to get paid as much as the store manager. - If you are a high school teacher, you do not deserve to get paid as much as a university professor. - If you are a nurse, you do not deserve to get paid as much as a doctor. - If you are an apprentice chef, you do not deserve to get paid as much as the head chef. - Just because you are a woman, doesn’t mean you deserve to get paid as much, or more than a man (and vice versa).
No one deserves anything, especially if the only factor contributing to that entitlement is your gender. You earn your pay. Simple as that. If you choose a lower income job, then you need to realise that you will earn a lower income than someone else who has chosen a higher income job.
How about an example to make this more clear: CHILDREN GET PAID 2c FOR EVERY DOLLAR AN ADULT MAKES!
Now, is it reasonable to call that discrimination towards children? Should we stage protests and demand an intervention to ensure that parents are forced to pay their kids $11.45 for every hour that they stand at their shitty homemade lemonade stall? No, because in the situation involving the children/adults wage gap, it is so blatantly obvious that the statistic involved doesn’t disclose some really crucial information such as: - How often do children work, compared to adults? - How much time off do children take, compared to adults? - How labour intensive is the work children do, compared to adults? - Do the majority of children actively choose lower income jobs to accommodate their lifestyles, compared to adults? - Do the majority of adults sacrifice a larger portion of their time and lifestyle to take these higher income jobs, compared to children?
So when we spew around this statistic about women earning 77c for every dollar a man makes… Why isn’tit is so blatantly obvious that the statistic involved doesn’t disclose some really crucial information such as: - How often do women work, compared to men? - How much time off do women take, compared to men? - How labour intensive is the work women do, compared to men? - Do the majority of women actively choose lower income jobs to accommodate their lifestyles, compared to the majority of men? - Do the majority of men sacrifice a larger portion of their time and lifestyle to take these higher income jobs, compared to women?
Is this really so hard to comprehend, or are we going to blame the patriarchy again?
(PS. Most modern countries have some sort of legal watchdog that prevents and punishes discrimination in the workforce. In Australia we have what is called the Fair Work Ombudsman that gives out information and advice and informs you of your legal rights for those who find themselves in situations that involve discrimination. If you are being discriminated against in the workforce, including payment issues, these institutions will help you out. You don’t have an excuse not to ask.)
I need feminism because I shouldn’t have to worry that my gender will stop me from being successful in the male dominated games industry.
Do we really have to keep doing this? I hate how we completely dehumanize the majority of people working within the games industry by labeling it as a “male dominated games industry”. The way we use words can be so incredibly manipulative sometimes. When you use words such as “male dominated” it completely removes any sort of human context and replaces it with negative stereotypes because we are throwing around the word “dominated” which will always invoke negative connotations.
When you say words like “male dominated” you are almost implying that all the men in that particular industry are women-hating bigoted sexists who want to dominate over all of the women. That is a shitty and hurtful generalization to make. I’m going to slightly re-word the above quote:
“I need feminism because I shouldn’t have to worry that my gender will stop my from being successful in the games industry where 80% of the workforce happen to be really passionate and genuine men who are doing what they love.”
Yes, I understand that there are still people out there who are still inherently sexist towards women, to the point where it could be considered bigotry. These people are the minorities. There really is only a handful of people who will look at mind blowingly awesome work and deny the applicant because all they saw was the female gender of the creator behind the design.
Do you know what will actually stop you from being successful in the games industry (or any creative industry for that matter) 99% of the time? Lack of motivation, passion, talent, ambition, and creativity. You need all of this to succeed. We are all on tumblr, and we’ve all seen those amazing images, videos, music clips, or art… Yet the people who created them are absolute nobodies. It goes to show that just because you are insanely talented doesn’t mean you are going to make it if you don’t have the motivation and the passion to dedicate most of your life into getting your work out there and recognized. You can’t expect to have everything handed to you on a silver platter.
Saying things like “I can’t be successful because there are lots of men” is a really copout way of giving up. Don’t make excuses. Stop blaming others.
