Feminism justifies anti-male attitudes by promoting an ideological belief that I call feminism’s Patriarchal Thesis:Being a victim is the new discriminated group.
Believing that normal human life is a system of injustice in which all women (collectively) are victimized by all men (collectively), feminists can justify anything they say or do as part of their struggle against historic oppression.
- All women are victims of oppression;
- All men benefit from women’s oppression;
therefore- Whatever.
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The young feminist — today’s 20-something woman born decades after Daly, Dworkin and others created this mythology in the 1970s — is encouraged to think of herself as inheriting the suffering of ancient witches as her legacy. This in turn helps the most privileged college-educated woman to believe she is victimized by a “society” that the feminist blogger declares “hates women,” a society that “justifies” rape and violence against women, “devalues the labor of women” and treats women as “property” to be used for “the benefit of males.” Because she thinks about the oppression of women is historical terms, it does not matter to the young feminist that she herself is extraordinarily privileged. She has inherited her victim status.
It also allows women to be blameless for all mistakes and decision she makes in her life.
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