This one is going to be a long one and I wil try to make it as simple as I possibly can.
Now I’m no ‘expert’ or ‘scholar’ but this is what I have been able to piece together:
Why did feminism arise?
Feminism began with the suffrage movement, i.e., the right to vote. The way I see it, there is absolutely nothing wrong with the idea of this era. Everyone should be abe to vote, women too, even if most of them were not much affected by politics. I think it was needed.
The second wave wanted ‘women’s liberation from traditional gender roles’. This is where things started to get awry. If I try to put it in simple vocabulary, women wanted equality in the workplace, equal pay, social respect just like a man. They demanded that they were human beings too, and that this was their right.
Well, they were all right up to the point when they said ‘equal rights’, but I think they made a very major mistake…. they forgot they had ‘equal responsibilities’ too.
I would have liked to see history as woman finally stepping up in the various fields, more women ‘taking’ up the gender roles of men like working in factories, fighting in wars etc. etc. that could have been presented as proof. “Look, we have shown you that we can work as equally as men could. We proved it that we can be equal to men. Now give us our rights”. But that didn’t happen. They asked for the prize without even competing in the race. Most of the women in that area ‘did not work as much as men did’, obviously they couldn’t because of the prevalent traditiona roles and customs. If they really do wanted rights, they shoud have ‘proven’ themselves first. They should have taken up the sword and shield and defend their nations alongside spoon-feeding their toddlers and wrapping bankets around them. Most of them did not maintain this role. What about men? They did miantained their roles fairly. History itsef is a witness.
The third wave was less ‘equal’ and more ‘individual’. Things like ‘I should be able to do whatever I want’, and ‘I should not be told what to do’.
In this case, I want to derive meaing from parenting roles. The parents prevent their teenagers from doing certain stuff because they do not want them to get hurt. They do know that as teenagers, freedom must be provided to them, but the world outside the home and school was very unforgiving; there would be no one to take care of them if they venture out alone; they stil have to learn a lot from experiences before being able to make good decisions.
Something similar happened here. Traditional men did not entertain the thought that women could ‘handle’ it outside, so they vehemently opposed the idea of an independent woman. As I see it, the third wave ‘meant good’ for women, giving them a sense of freedom… in short, they were released of their traditional gender roles and they were free what they wanted to do, which was , I say, okay, until they decided what to do with it.
That, I think, was the primal point of metamorphosis of feminism from what it was supposed to be and what it is today. Initially, what was a liberation movement, turned into a master plan for domination of one gender over the other. TOTAL DOMINATION. They didn’t bother shaming men in order to achieve ‘equality’. They didn’t care abusing their new-found freedom and their new-found powers to push the entire maledom into a state of permanent excruciation. In the quest to achieve the ‘female value’, they ripped the ‘male value’ to shreds.
They did have a better option option.
My ideal view of feminism was where every woman were successfull in propagating good values into the society ‘together’ with men by their side. They always had that option. If they had thought more ‘we’ rather than ‘me’, more “how we can do this together” rather than “how I can f~~~ him over so that he won’t f~~~ me over”, I don’t think MGTOW would have had a reason to exist. They were clearly blind to the grave consequences of their liberty. They f~~~ed up big time, and even then we are not angry at them. We say that “Ah! Its just their nature. Let’s not get angry. Lets just accept it and move on. Let them do their thing. We will do ours.”
And now they are acknowledging the fact that they made a mistake. The NAWALTs are clearly stating that “things didn’t have to be the way they were; lets fix it”. But the damage was already done in a galactic scale. Young women were already responding to the mutated idea of feminism and causing destruction of men at all fields of life. In my words, the NAWALTS were ‘too late in their approach’ and ‘didn’t see the fire until it had decimated half of the city’. These consequences, they are effecting us men till date and we still haven’t recovered. I don’t see a way we could be recovered. Though I’m always a very hopeful person.
I really wished things coud have been different, but like the saying goes, all’s well that ends well. Huh! I look forward to the miracle that would hold this line true.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Varun 3 years, 11 months ago.
