#blamefeminism

So, we have a magazine article with a list of things to be concerned about with regard to "feminism".

I put that word in quotes because I defy anyone to tell me unambiguously what the word even means.

It gives five examples from well known media of "bad" things that feminism has done for the world.  Only some of the things are hardly bad such as the proper placing of blame for the Anthony Weiner affair, and other items on the list which are bad, can hardly be blamed on feminism such as "impotence"!

But after semi-popular hate site A Voice for Men suggested using the hashtag #blamefeminism to point out things they have against the women's movement you have to wonder about their reading comprehension.

Well, no.  If you read their site for a few days you will soon find out that most of the members there and at least a few of the staff are borderline illiterate.   They have no reading comprehension at all, taken as a whole.  Which is not the same as saying that everyone that posts there is illiterate, there are clearly some non-dim bulbs in the mix.

Regardless, I think the hashtag has merit no matter how people take it in that it will pull conversations together from a variety of places.

Has feminism had negative consequences?   Probably so.  Almost any movement that is loosely defined in the first place and finds itself attached to millions of people will have negative consequences of one sort or another.  Any set of ideas can be taken to an extreme.  Does that mean that people who are united in trying to improve the lives of women, not just in affluent USA but to women around the world.  How many bad apples or bad outcomes in a worldwide movement do you have to find before you can pronounce the movement toxic?

I think when it comes to feminism, that number will be a lot higher than any survey of the hashtag is likely to turn up.

Not sure the same can be said for MRM site A Voice for Men though.