Examples of How Feminism Helps Men.
How much of a hint do you need? She obviously isn't seriously advocating this, any more than Hyperlexian was serious about eliminating 99% of males. It is very exaggerated, and I find it hilarious.
Well, we are each entitled to our own sense of humour. My own sense of humour is similar, and it has got me in trouble before.
I don't know. Possibly. I would have to see it before I decided. One would have to be careful when joking about rape, as being a sensitive topic, and rapes occur every day. Castrations don't.
How much of a hint do you need? She obviously isn't seriously advocating this, any more than Hyperlexian was serious about eliminating 99% of males. It is very exaggerated, and I find it hilarious.
I rarely find the forced removal of body parts humorous as a part of comedy. The SCUM manifesto was an example of this, and there are plenty more examples of this type of thinking.
Well, we are each entitled to our own sense of humour. My own sense of humour is similar, and it has got me in trouble before.
I don't know. Possibly. I would have to see it before I decided. One would have to be careful when joking about rape, as being a sensitive topic, and rapes occur every day. Castrations don't.
How about instead of rape, someone were to write in a similar tone about cutting off a females body parts, then again I'm fairly sure you have a reply ready about FGM and how that happens every day as well. Either some topics are too serious to joke about or they are all fair game, period.
If its wrong for men its wrong for women and vice versa, if a large majority of feminists adopted this position, the religion would be a lot more sensible overnight.
feminism hasnt and never will help men. feminism is only about women and what women can get. even now when things are equal they continue to take take take.
I'm pretty sure that the Scum Manifesto wasn't intended as humour.
Given that a lot of heterosexual men really appreciate feminine body parts, I can't think of a good line of humour that would involve slicing them off.
However, quite a lot of chicks go in for cosmetic surgery: breast augmentation as a high school graduation present; eye-bag tightening at 30; cellulite removal; face lifts; lazer-hair removal, etc. etc. etc. This would be a ripe topic for humour.
Also, possibly jokes about spaying women at menopause--probably bad taste, but maybe it could be done.
I'm sure that no-one is serious about publicly castrating all men--although castration would have to rank as one of man's greatest fears.
I'm pretty sure that the Scum Manifesto wasn't intended as humour.
Surprisingly I saw some feminists defend it as satire, even in the wikipedia article.
Given that a lot of heterosexual men really appreciate feminine body parts, I can't think of a good line of humour that would involve slicing them off.
However, quite a lot of chicks go in for cosmetic surgery: breast augmentation as a high school graduation present; eye-bag tightening at 30; cellulite removal; face lifts; lazer-hair removal, etc. etc. etc. This would be a ripe topic for humour.
Also, possibly jokes about spaying women at menopause--probably bad taste, but maybe it could be done.
A: A lot of heterosexual women appreciate men that have testicles and thus are able to get erections.
B: Women voluntarily having surgical procedures is not the same as men forcefully having their testicles cut off.
C: Menopause, really? Yeah, that's the equivalent of cutting a guys balls off.
You are doing a great job showing how people defending your position are completely unable to be objective.
I'm sure that no-one is serious about publicly castrating all men--although castration would have to rank as one of man's greatest fears.
Oh, not all men, whew, what a relief. So I guess that means some are serious about castrating some men, in the same way that some men are serious about raping someone. Again, I find it hysterical that people that claim to be in favor of equality are the most anti-equality people I know.
If rape is a woman's biggest fear and castration is a man's biggest fear, then its only fair that both should be off limits for jokes/satire/humor regardless of the frequency of occurance for the acts in society at large. Furthermore, if we buy the 60 pages of arguments from the feminist anti-porn lobby, perhaps humor around men being castrated or having their penises cut off leads to that happening.
i'd say that i am probably more wary of violence than rape, as i have experienced both ("fearful" isn't really a word that applies to me).
regardless, i completely agree that the castration joke went too far, hence why it was removed.
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The Scum Manifesto seems to have some serious points. The castration joke didn't.
One would hope at least.
One could conceivably produce a joke about girls being forced to have breast augmentation surgery as a requirement for entering high school (along with the usual vaccinations).
Spaying a woman was the closest equivalent that I could think of. On the other hand, female genital mutilation does happen. Maybe someone made a joke about it, I don't know, but I'm sure that Hyperlexian would spank me if I repeated it here.
Thank you for the great compliment.
I could be wrong, but I don't think that anyone is seriously in favour of castrating anyone other than pets, farm animals, and possibly rapists.
Well, I know that some people can be sensitive and offended by jokes that others find humourous.
I certainly don't buy the feminist anti-porn arguments.
Thank you, Mother WP.
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Another reason that this sort of joke doesn't bite both ways is that Western women (this is a very general statement) are not as attached to their genitals as Western men are. For example, I wouldn't have much of a problem with being spayed if it could be done without increasing my risk for breast cancer or osteoporosis later in life, or changing my libido. A lot of women feel ambivalent even about their breasts because of the unwanted attention they attract (breast reduction surgery isn't unheard of even in women where the size of the girls isn't causing physical problems).
I think the gender roles are pretty arbitrary and childish, nothing against people for whom they fit like a glove but there's no logical reason to be trying to make all these square pegs go into round holes and vice-versa. Who decided that everyone has to be a certain way? The roles are not difficult just for women or homosexuals, being a straight guy isn't all lollipops and rainbows either, there are many demands, many limitations on what you can do and particularly what you're allowed to talk about. Frankly, on the latter point, it can be a little like living in Iran sometimes.
I don't think it's decided much by biology, since it's changed so much over time. In the Classical era, you were a manly man if you wore a skirt, read lots of poetry, and put floral designs on your armour. That was more or less the Rambo of the age. That's Caesar and Alexander the Great and all the rest of them.
So, that part is a big benefit. Less constraint and more freedom for people to be who they are is never a bad thing. But I can't help but feel like the way things are panning out, men will continue to be mostly trapped in their role while women break out from theirs. I think this is the source of alot of resentment towards feminism, even though it's misdirected.
I'm certainly very fond of my genitals, but I did find the joke to be very funny.
I wonder how many men versus women found the joke offensive?
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Heheh, perhaps when its in the hands of Jackson or Sharpton and weilded as extortion. Aside from particularly bunk high profile power-grabbers though - clearly not.
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I wonder why men have this silly impression that our testosterone producing body parts are important.
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I wonder why men have this silly impression that our testosterone producing body parts are important.
Well, I sure like mine. My life would have been pretty darned meaningless without them.
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