Why do feminism blame everything on white males?

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There is a semi-valid reason: White cis male oppression is the freshest memory and most present and personal example of misogyny available in the minds of most Western feminists (and frankly, most of the people experiencing misogyny from African, Indian, or Arab men don’t have the luxury of being outspoken feminists— they’re too busy trying not to die today). Things like shari’a and FGM and acid attacks and honor killings just don’t compute in their real, visceral, personal experience. It’s not a whole lot more real than the last episode of Walking Dead, and less relatable.

There’s also a reason that I don’t consider valid at all, and frankly it scares the living piss-water out of me and constitutes a fair bit of the reason I turned my back on liberalism for all I retain a lot of the fundamentally Socialist values I was raised with. Somewhere along the line, “more radical,” “more in-your-face” and et cetera became associated, and then equated, with “more progressive,” “more intelligent,” and “more better.” I don’t know WHEN that happen, but I know it was the case when I was in college (‘96-‘01, and then off and on until ‘06). It got worse and worse and worse until I got so disgusted with it I chose to tell them to shove their MA/MFA and just make a bunch of babies instead; it doesn’t seem to have improved any in the decade-and-change I’ve spent mopping floors and wiping noses and generally trying to inculcate some critical thinking and life skills into three daughters and a son.

Why Do Feminism Blame Everything On White Males?

I know, feminism is about equality, and i support it.

But what i dont understand is why feminists always blame white males for everything that is bad in the world. Why do feminists say that white males "spread" intolerance around the world due to the imperalism and that before this white imperalism the world was a perfect place?

I’m a feminist who blames humanity in general.

White males are in control and responsible for pretty much everything bad that happens in the world.

Don't shoot the messengers. As you said feminism is about equality. Nothing more. White males are in control and responsible for pretty much everything bad that happens in the world. That is a fact.

Maybe because it's true? When was the last time you heard of a female mass murderer? If you do enough research, you can find some. But you can probably count them on your fingers, and when you do find them, more often then not, their husband or boy friend was the master mind.

Better yet, when was the last time you heard of a non-white female mass murderer? Good luck finding even one.

Don't shoot the messengers. As you said feminism is about equality. Nothing more. White males are in control and responsible for pretty much everything bad that happens in the world. That is a fact.

Maybe because it's true? When was the last time you heard of a female mass murderer? If you do enough research, you can find some. But you can probably count them on your fingers, and when you do find them, more often then not, their husband or boy friend was the master mind.

Better yet, when was the last time you heard of a non-white female mass murderer? Good luck finding even one.

Don't shoot the messengers. As you said feminism is about equality. Nothing more. White males are in control and responsible for pretty much everything bad that happens in the world. That is a fact.

What about how these men committing these crimes have been raised? A lot of men have experienced abuse at the hands of their mothers, foster mothers etc. You would be surprised how many.

And what about (since we're doing "whataboutism") the millions of women who are abused by their fathers and other men and DON'T become mass shooters?

And what about (since we're doing "whataboutism") the millions of women who are abused by their fathers and other men and DON'T become mass shooters?

I don't know. I can tell you this though, women tend to internalize our social failure and our anger within ourselves more often where as (some) men just end up exploding over those things. Elliot Rodgers is a good example. Now I experienced a lot of alienation in University too just like Elliot (which lead me to drop out) - but how I dealt with this was blaming myself and thinking I must not be trying hard enough. Better go on a diet, get better clothes, clear my skin, become more social etc.

But men are not inherently wicked. Just how they deal with things can sometimes be different than us women. Sometimes. I should say for the record the most violent beating I EVER received was from two girls - they nearly killed me. So it goes both ways.

So you're against whataboutism but you use it anyway. You won't raise yourself up by sinking to his level.

Her level, I think you mean.

So there's a glass ceiling for murderers? We should work on murderer equality to show that women can murder just as many people as men! /sarcasm

Seriously there's a whole documentary series on the CI channel called Women Who Kill. Some women can be pretty badass and they're not afraid to kill men who piss them off!

If you think all women are just nice sweet friendly submissive beings who only want to cook and clean for you, you're only demonstrating your own misogyny.