In terms of Soret's stance on Feminism. It doesn't necessarily mean he is an MRA. That is another thing I can't stand. This idea that if you are against one thing you must be automatically in favour of the other. No, you may not be in favour of either. And that is actually my stance. I think we need to move past looking at issues through the gendered lens. We need to start looking at issues from the perspective of both men and women.
In terms of my issues with modern day feminism: First of all, it is a political ideology. There is that little trick that feminists like to pull which is, if you are for the equality of the sexes, you're a feminist. No, if I reamin skeptical about rape culture, or the wage gap; if I believe patriarchy theory isn't an adequate way of viewing society in the West, or that men and women are not simply a blank slate that are programmed to view themselves as male or female, many feminists would deny I am a true feminist. It is not the notion that men and women should have equal opportunities I take issue with, it is looking at society and culture through the lens of feminist theory I take issue with. It has a philosophical and theoretical foundation; it has a worldview. It promotes a radical restructuring of society (smash the patriacrhy). It is a political ideology, and like every other political ideology, it should be fair game to criticise it.
It is authoritarian, it is for censorship, it is anti-free speech. There is very noticeable push back against Enlightenment values. Ironically, it has embraced victimhood. Where as early feminism pushed the view that women can be every bit as capable as men, modern feminism promotes the idea that women are fragile and weak and need to be protected. Campaigns to ban advertisement because if a woman walks past an advertisment of a thin woman in a bikini she will be scarred by it. Constant interfering in students sex lives, because a woman couldn't possibly be able to negotiate her own sex life by herself. Feminism is infantalising women and demonising men. Men need consent classes to be taught not to rape. We need to clamp down on 'lad banter'.
