Is ‘Modern Feminism’ turning women into sadist radicals in urban societies?

Women in most urban parts of the world are most liberated and free in the human history today. Yet in many ways they are NOT doing merely as well as men, they are doing BETTER. Women’s emancipation is one of the glories of the modern civilization making the greatest chapter in the history of freedom. So why then women in feminist movements from organization like

National Organization for Women

Professors in our Universities and Colleges

Women in Media

Still so dissatisfied, the feminists rarely acknowledge women’s progress. Yes they agree to certain things have been achieved but they still don’t reject their activist brand of feminism and always end up defining “FREE” as proof of just how entrenched patriarchy and inequality truly are. Women are so oppressed they don’t even know it. Years after years these women make claims about women in violence, women in depression, and women in eating disorders, women and workplace injustice to support their views. Over the years their claims have been closely studied leading to a finding that their victim statistics are misleading.

Consider the issue of Gender Wage Gap

It is a common saying that women earn 2/3^rd of a dollar while men earn a dollar for the same amount of work. This is constantly repeated by feminists and their supporters. After a close in depth study this has been proven false. The pay gap is simply the difference between average earning of all men and women working full time, it does not account for differences in occupation, positions, education, job tenure, or hours worked per week.

Now the wage gap activists like “American Association of University Women, National Women’s Law Centre say that even when we control these factors women still earn less” It always turns out they have neglected one or two major data points in their research.

Take the case of doctors

On the surface it looks like women physicians are clearly victims of wage discrimination, they appear to work less for the same work. But dig a little deeper and you find that women are far likely to opt for lower paying specialities like paediatrics, family medicine, gynaecology then higher paying cardiology, anaesthesiology they are also more likely to work part time and even the women who work full time put in 7 to 10 percent less hours then men. Women physicians are more likely to take long leaves of absence usually to start a family now there are exceptions but most workplace pay gaps narrow to the point of vanishing when one accounts for all these relevant factors.

Now how do the women’s advocacy groups react to this?

They say women’s choices are NOT truly free. Women, who take leaves for their families, work as paediatrics, put in fewer working hours are held back by invisible barriers or internalized oppression. According to National Organization for Women “powerful sexist stereotypes steer women and men towards different education training and career paths and family roles.” But is it really social conditioning that explains women’s vocational preferences and their special attachment to children?

I will answer it in a way that in pursuit of happiness men and women take different paths and isn't it patronizing to say that most urban women are not free self determining human beings. Another way to prove that male and female wage gap isn't true is that if women are being paid less than men, in a corporate world wouldn't the capitalist owners fire men whom they pay extra money to and give jobs only to women doing the same amount and nature of work. Why wouldn't they use this huge market benefit resulting in profits and cutting cost?

Christina Hoff Sommers (Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute) “as a regular lecturer on campus I have seen young girls have fully accepted the propaganda of feminism, even in US where girls are most liberated, fortunate women on the planet yet in their feminist theory classes they are likely to learn that they are put upon by men, tyrannized by men. The more elite the school, the more advanced the degree they are more likely to take such feminist propaganda more seriously”. But this doesn't have to continue.

The time has come for women to take back feminism, reform it, correct the excess of it, repudiate the victim propaganda, get rid of women are from Venus and men are from Hell and begin the arduous task of correcting a three decades of feminist misinformation. There has to be a platform where the excess of modern radical feminism should be checked for legitimacy that should be allowed to double check their actions and theories to reform the idea for generations.

Women who suffer and are true victims of domestic violence, wage gaps, rights in general can be helped by truth and solid research and not by hysteria and hype.

Appreciate and make good use of the unprecedented freedom that you have.

With reference to video from Christina Hoff Sommers.

Understanding Feminism in South Asian Society

A chunk of work that needs to be shared

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

The Engaged Feminist Intellectual 

What comes to me very strongly is that in many ways in order for what we recognize as feminism to operate as an engagement we must presume socialist norms, which are written within capitalism, because it means turning the use of capital from capitalist to socialist uses.

Where there is no agency of turning and development of capitalism not noticeable except as remote victim, today the task has been picked up by the international civil society, which I have described as "self-selected moral entrepreneurs" on many occasions. These people are confident that gender redress can be computed in terms of making the phenomena of gendering accessible by general terms provided by world governance style documents, every unit in fought over in prep com meetings, everything most simply understood, as in a PowerPoint presentation; as in knowledge management plans, decisions made by logic rather than subject-engagement.

A certain kind of anti-capitalism, not invariably present in this sector which is often dependent upon, and happily so, upon corporate funding, substitutes for a proactive socialism here. The slow and deep language learning that must accompany accessing cultural infrastructures so real long term change might be envisaged is largely absent.

The distinction between problem solving and the un coercive rearrangement of desires between doctors without Borders and primary health care, let us say, is often ignored here. This kind of "feminist engagement" is not noticeably "intellectual," if the intellectual is a person who analyses the existing situation before choosing the most convenient instrument for solving a problem that has been constructed as a "case" by looking at the grid established by people in a completely different level of capitalist society.

In this sort of below the radar rural situation, in eastern India, at least (that is another problem, we tend to generalize too soon, because of the alliances of the international civil society with the benevolent feudal feminism of the global South), the problem-solving approach can apply to clearly visible cases of domestic violence.

The Three Pillars of Modern Radical Feminism

I see three pillars to this new form of Modern Radical Feminism being engraved within the urban societies all over the world.

• Dignity
• The word NO
• Men

Dignity:

Tammy Bruce (Board of Directors on National Organization of Women) says “I feel pride and some guilt for this designation, Pride because feminism has pushed forward some very important and needed changes and guilt because it has done a lot of damage”. For radical modern feminists dignity stands for two things

•  It should be the core of what feminism should be about
•  A woman should be able to freely choose her path in life

College students in the western world aspires to be in any field such as lawyers, journalists, artists, doctors, engineers but they would not choose a wife or a mother to be a career path or even consider it one of the paths to follow. If this is a given factor to a college student today it is not just considered a no go as a career but it is discouraged by the feminists by labelling it offensive, sexist, embarrassing and anti-feminist. It has happened to many women who are pro-marriage and family life, their views are not event considered as ones to be heard or acknowledged by the radical feminists. This happened to a guest contributor Susan A. Patton at Princeton University in 2013 who published a letter stating that marriage and being a mother and a wife needs to be acknowledged equally as other career choices by college students and she suffered the criticism beyond our expectation by the feminist groups.

When what was due to keep the dignity of a woman was to value and respect all responsible choices. “While talking of dignity I can’t see anything less dignified that a woman in the sexual arena act like men or ought to act like men. Is this what a truly liberated woman wants?” Tammy. Think of casual sex and think of it like men do and what they aspires to? The answer to this question on an international level is a ‘YES’ by the women.

• Feminism has downplayed the desire of women to have family
• Simultaneously hyping the rewards of career and casual sex around the globe

Not exactly the recipe of success and happiness

The word NO

There is great power in the word No. The consequences of using the word No to define feminism has been catastrophic in the last 3 decades. Particularly the time when Pakistan met the idea of feminism while it was already evolved from the original narrative, women who fought NOT to be treated as a sex object have been more objectified than ever, you see it on tv, internet, advertisements, magazines, newspapers and now we see teenage girls pursuing teenage boys like boys used to do some decades ago. How did this happen?

Because feminism advocated that women should behave like men, whatever men did and however they did it, that is what women should do. Feminists were angry at men but they wanted to be like men at the same time. No wonder our society is so confused women are robbing themselves to say no to this, solution is to take that power back.

Saying No means that I will not be defined by anyone else NOT by feminists and not by men’s sexual desires. That is female power.

Men

Whether feminists agree or not, it was men who gave up their monopoly to give women the right to vote, men who invented birth control, refrigerator, washing machine and so many other devices that liberated women and men are different from women. Academics like to speculate that “men and women are basically the same but they like to socialized differently.” Bobbi J. Carothers Harry T. Reis (men and women are from earth Journal of personality and social psychology Vol 104 no 2 Feb 2013). Moreover sexes need each other for example women civilize men, its what they are suppose to do but in order to do so, women must

• Preserve their dignity
• Not be afraid to use the word No
• See men as partners NOT as competitors or oppressors

That is the solution for a society to be stronger otherwise it will only get worse, and by the time we will realize it the differences would be of such grand level that we will only be remembered as ignorant fools who damaged the society from a grass root level.

(with reference to Tammy Bruce's Video)