Perpetual Thursday: Feminism v.s. Femi-nazi-isim

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Feminism v.s. Femi-nazi-isim
Wednesday, March 21, 2007

I'm about to say something that, at first, might scare some of you. Ready? Here goes: Feminism is a good thing.

No, really - I'm serious. Feminism can be a good thing. That brings me to the title of this post: Feminism v.s. Femi-nazi-isim. Femi-nazi-isim is a bad thing, obviously, but what is it? In its essence, femi-nazi-isim is today's feminism.

Femi-nazi-isim is best expressed using a real-life example, such as, say, Linda Hirshman:

"NEW YORK, June 20, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Linda Hirshman, a feminist US writer on cultural issues, has told the world why she thinks staying at home with the children is an occupation 'not worthy of the full time and talents of intelligent and educated human beings.' She complains at length that the feminist movement, while making some gains in public life through legal activism, has largely failed in the one area where it counts most: the family.

She upbraids women who stay at home for failing the feminist agenda, saying, 'They do not require a great intellect, they are not honored and they do not involve risks and the rewards that risk brings.'"

Read the full article...

Ann Coulter put it very well when she said, “Hirshman isn't just expressing an opinion about what she thinks is best, she is saying that any woman who makes a choice different from what she espouses is unequivocally ‘wrong.’”

That's femi-nazi-isim. It isn't about giving power to women - in a way, it's about forcing power upon them - like it or not.

If a women wants to be a stay at home mother, she must be anti-femi-nazi - a traitor to women everywhere. How horrible of her to stay at home and care for her family.

In an article in the National Post, author Caitlin Flanagan said: "If you love your work and you love your child and you decide to give your child less of you to go to work, you missed something big and important and so did your child."

Flanagan is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of To Hell with All That: Fearing and Loathing Our Inner Housewife.

In her book, she points out that: "When a mother works, something is lost."

Of course, if femi-nazi-isim was about helping women, staying home would be her choice - and good for her if she makes it. But it isn't about helping - it's about 'empowering', which in the strange language of the femi-nazi's means 'getting careers and ditching family life, no ifs, ands, or buts.'

So what is feminism - what is the "good thing" I said it can be? Well, let's look at Eva Herman - a leading German TV moderator and anchorwoman:

"BERLIN, Germany, March 20, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com)...

Eva Herman published her account of the fatal flaws in a career-oriented lifestyle in a bestselling book entitled 'The Eva-Principle: Towards a New Femininity', released last year...

In The Eva-Principle, Herman tore open the issue of abortion as a violation of the woman, blaming pro-abortion laws for minimizing the trauma of abortion as nothing worse than going to the dentist.

Her book was founded on a rejection of the feminist goals of emancipation, career success and self-fulfillment, replacing them instead with the 'radical' goals of motherhood, home-maker and marriage-partner.

'Let's just say it loud,' Herman wrote. 'We women have overburdened ourselves -- we allowed ourselves to be too easily seduced by career opportunities.'"

Read the full article...

Eva Herman has, of course, outraged femi-nazis with her book (and it's sequel, Dear Eva Herman, a collection of responses from women who were relived to admit that professional success didn't make up for the loss of family life), which, as it's title says, leads towards a "New Feminity." That would be good feminism.

Feminism fights thing that hurt women, like pornography and prostitution. Doesn't the destruction of family hurt women too?

Femi-nazi-isim fights the family, and thus, in essence, fights women. Herman knows that. Flanagan knows that. Coulter knows that.

If only everyone else would figure it out.

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Comments:
Once again, I agree with what you have said. Actually, the only thing I have to ask is, does the word "feminism" really mean fighting things that hurt women, rather than being about helping women overcome things like "prejudice" and "male oppression"? If it means the latter, then there's no reason for it to exist, at least in modern times rather than in something like ancient Roman times, since the talk about "prejudice" and "male oppression" in Christian and modern society is basically just a huge heap of BS. If it's means the former thing, as you say, then real feminism is a good thing. I don't really know what exactly the feminist movement stood for at the beginning, so that's why I'm not really sure what the true definition of "feminism" is.
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Anonymous at 7:45 PM

Well said Pat! I stumbled onto your blog from the Alternative-internet site, and I find it to be rather cool.

I think in our society today there is a huge attack on the family especially since it is the first contact that a person has with the world. And what better way to attack than to take out the mother. There is nothing wrong with a woman wanting a career, but if she settles down and has a family, than there is a great level of commitment involved that must be honored. If more mothers would stay at home, than the mental and phycological health of the entire world would be better. As a woman myself, I would not trust the care of my (hypothetical) children to TV, a Daycare, Governess, or any other influence other than myself.

God Bless,
Anna Egan
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Anonymous at 9:12 PM

Well, i agree with what most of you are saying, but I believe that the main point of "Femi Nazis" is to empower women to step outside the boundaries society has set for us. What I mean by that is, women have been housewives and stay at home moms for centuries. Ever since we had no rights at all, that's what we've been doing. Femi Nazis want women to aspire to be more than what we've been being. It's important that we all know that staying home is beneficial to the kids in a way, but it is also harmful because it shows kids that mommy will always be there and dad will always bring home the bacon. Kids need to know what it is like to be separate from there parents at some point, and they need to see their moms do more than stay at home and cook and clean. Kids need to see their moms be independent, that way they will learn to be independent as well.
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