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Feminist Tumblr: It’s Not As If They Hate Men or Anything Like That

Posted on | July 10, 2015 | 65 Comments

The fascinating thing about Feminist Tumblr is that it’s totally unfiltered. Nearly all of the participants are very young — a 25-year-old is a senior citizen on Tumblr — and also anonymous. There’s no adult supervision (your mother is not on Tumblr) and inside this feminist echo chamber, everything inside their zany brains comes pouring out. There is a constant competition on Feminist Tumblr to say the most demeaning things possible about males. Of course, no feminist ever says anything good about males, but the anti-male venom of Feminist Tumblr gives it a special edge.

“it’s so weird that women are seen as emotional and melodramatic when all the men i know are the most unbelievably melodramatic people on earth and also every time i express an emotion as a woman i feel guilty and apologize profusely but I’ve literally never once heard a man apologize for expressing an emotion even though they throw literal temper tantrums all the time”

This is the exact opposite of the usual feminist complaint about men who, allegedly, are emotionally stunted and incapable of anything like the intuitive and sympathetic feelings over which feminists claim women have a monopoly. However, you see here the damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don’t aspect of feminism. Everything that men do is wrong, and so men who do show emotion are condemned as “the most unbelievably melodramatic people on earth” in a post that got more than 6,000 notes in a month.

Who is the author of this screed? Hannah Beth, a 20-year-old Florida State University student who is “majoring in literature and double minoring in art history/german” and also “queer as hell.” When she’s not busy denouncing males for their emotional melodrama, Hannah Beth has some emotions of her own:

I feel like books are a giant blanket I am wrapping myself up in. every morning lately when I wake up the first thought I have is about whatever I was reading before I went to sleep. it’s good to be corny about books on the internet I think. it’s good to have something I love this much. anyway, I felt really anxious all day today and had one of those Bad Days For No Reason and I cried a little bit in my car and I was scared to sleep alone but now I am curled up at 1am with my tiny book and I feel like it is the most reassuring hug on earth, like 100 angels whispering “it’s okay and it’s always been okay and it always will be” which is true and very good to hear from the universe. I wanna write a love letter to literature tbh.

So, yeah, guys “throw literal temper tantrums,” and meanwhile Hannah Beth is crying in her car and scared to sleep alone.

Tumblr Feminists cry alone a lot, when they’re not busy plotting worldwide revolution, like 21-year-old Athena, a “Gemini bitch” from Sweden who describes herself as “stone cold lesbian, post-structuralist radical feminist, marxist communist” and also a bunny owner & advocate for proper animal care. So she loves bunnies, but hates men and capitalism, not necessarily in that order.

“I’m not interested in dedicating my feminist effort to making masculinity more comfortable for men, I could not care less; they created it, they uphold it, so they fix it. I’m not gonna wade through their toxic waste to try to awaken some core of softness and compassion in men. If men are supposedly as good at analysis and reflection as they like to claim then they can fix their own shit. Demanding that women use up our effort to do it for them in the name of feminism – a women’s movement – is just another facet of the same masculinity they supposedly disapprove of.”

We got your message, loud and clear. Got nearly 9,000 notes in three month for that. Cute selfies for a lesbian Marxist, though.

So “queer as hell” or “stone cold lesbian” — kind of a theme becomes apparent here. There may even be a pattern on Feminist Tumblr. Then there’s 24-year-old Jam, “bisexual and aromantic,” who is “half Jamaican half Finnish, first generation Canadian” and also — surprise! — has complaints about men:

“one part of the male gender role I can’t stand is thinking that being irritating and pissing women off is funny????
every man I’ve met thinks that’s hilarious and
gets mad when I’m not into it. like why did
no one teach them to shut the fuck up”

That got over 160,000 notes in five months, because Tumblr Feminists share a profound contempt for “the male gender role.”

Oh, and Jam also posts a lot of selfies. You might like her, if you’re into pierced noses and tattoos and know how to “shut the fuck up.”

Speaking of which, Kethrellan, 19, is studying Music Education and Voice at the University of Delaware and — thanks to a questionnaire she filled out — we know that she’s 5-foot-7, lost her virginity before she was 18, has never been in a serious relationship and is, of course, bisexual.

Question: Is bisexuality as common in real life as it is on Feminist Tumblr? Or is there just reflecting a trend among fashionable young people to identify as Something Other Than Normal? Then I remember — Feminism Is Queer!

 

The title of that 2010 textbook by a Women’s Studies professor summarizes the basic message of feminism in the 21st century.

Whatever she does, the Third Wave feminist cannot be normal, because being normal is oppressive. This came to mind particularly with Kethrellan because I was looking at her selfies — because posting selfies is why they invented the Internet, right? — and thinking “never been in a serious relationship”? Long curly hair, nice smile, wide-set eyes — not a Barbie doll-type beauty, but more like a pre-Raphaelite painting. Rosetti or Millais would have loved her, and yet Kethrellan has “never been in a serious relationship”? Maybe the Tumblr Feminists have got a point. Maybe young guys nowadays are just a bunch of clueless clowns. Maybe they lack a proper appreciation of beauty. And maybe that’s why Kethrellan wrote this on her Tumblr blog:

“overhearing straight boys talk about girls is so terrifying”

Seriously, what’s wrong with these guys? Did their mamas not raise them right? Were they dumped off in daycare when they were babies? Did they grow up without two loving parents? We they shuttled back and forth between their divorced parents or abused by stepparents? How is it that so many of these young men seem to be uncouth savages or feral beasts with no respect for women? It’s almost as if civilization is being destroyed, perhaps by a War Against Human Nature.

Somebody ought to write a book about this or something.





 

Category: Sex Trouble

Comments

65 Responses to “Feminist Tumblr: It’s Not As If They Hate Men or Anything Like That”

  1. Harry D Dullard
    July 11th, 2015 @ 11:25 pm

    What, you don’t think you can stop a main battle tank with a hashtag? Listen and believe!

  2. PhyllisTDowd
    July 12th, 2015 @ 1:05 am

    i like me theothermccain See More Detail

  3. Matthew Lane
    July 12th, 2015 @ 2:45 am

    “It’s a perfect storm of technology, moral and familial collapse, and narcissistic hysteria”

    Note that you are assuming there is actually something wrong with these boys. In reality there is nothing wrong with these boys, where as there is heaps wrong with these SJW Tumblrinas.

    To them, the very idea that there are boys somewhere who have opinions like “gee whiz I would really like to have sex with that sexually attractive girl” is just rape, or possibly patriarchy, or maybe just internalized misogyny, or whatever the preferred intersectional buzz word of the week is.

    In reality “gee whiz I would really like to have sex with that sexually attractive girl” is what the rest of society, not burdened by an ideology predicated on thought terminating clichés refers to as a “healthy sexuality.”

    So the question isn’t whats wrong with these boys, the question is “why does American culture declare a healthy person sick.”

    An the answer is that your society is sick. The only healthy people in the darn society are the ones being deemed sick.

  4. Janet Wilkinson
    July 12th, 2015 @ 3:46 am

    Im pretty sure in a lot of cases the parents did not raise them at all. They were handed an iPad at the age of 7 and the internet did the rest.

    What you are seeing is the professional victimhood, vile hatred, bitter continuously pissed off, man hating youth that is modern day feminism.

    You really think it stops at Tumblr ? Tumblr is just the start, they then move on to Facebook, then on to Twitter and then more than likely out in to real life.

    They then form feminist groups in academia where they will stop men having similar groups or any male only groups (while they are studying gender studies courses) and then take it out in to the workplace where they are likely to take hold in places like HR where they will implement female only support groups and again try and shut down any support groups for men.

    Tumblr is only the first step in the modern day feminist academy for being a anti-male sexist bigot.

  5. Daniel Freeman
    July 12th, 2015 @ 5:10 am

    You’re not necessarily wrong. I checked the link, and unless I missed something, she made a bare assertion without evidence.

    However, our host has provided evidence in the past for young men having vulgar expectations shaped by porn, such as to eff a girl in the butt and then cum on her face, neither of which are attractive propositions.

    I would say that it’s a skepticism fail on his part in the specific instance, and on your part for the bigger picture.

  6. Matthew Lane
    July 12th, 2015 @ 5:23 am

    “However, our host has provided evidence in the past for young men having vulgar expectations shaped by porn,”

    Vulgar is 100% subjective. To a prude kissing is vulgar, to a homophobe gay sex between men is vulgar yet for some reason lesbian sex is fine. To people of the Islamic faith, even mentioning sex is vulgar.

    One persons vulgar is another person vanilla & as such your statement is 100% without any merit in this conversation.

    “such as to eff a girl in the butt and then cum on her face, neither of which are attractive propositions.”

    According to you: But what about the women who kink that is. You don’t get to speak for all women, or all men.

  7. scanspeak
    July 12th, 2015 @ 6:00 am

    I’ve always wondered why every feminist protest involves them getting their gear off!

  8. Gary Scott
    July 12th, 2015 @ 6:53 am

    A ‘Bro-ometer’ you might say…

    Man I was so keen to make that bad joke I didn’t realise you were a woman. Dead right tho, I tease my g/f a lot because I love her 🙂

  9. Phil_McG
    July 12th, 2015 @ 8:32 am

    An you don’t get to pass judgment on other peoples sexual preferences as “vulgar”, because they don’t match your own

    Why not?

    Vulgarity exists. Having no standards at all is just as much a judgement call as discriminating between normal, healthy sex and weird, perverted sex.

    A man and a woman who love each other turning down the lights and putting on the Marvin Gaye CD before they make a baby in the privacy of their own bedroom is a beautiful thing.

    A group of furries yiffing each other in their crusty polyester costumes is not.

    what I mean by an unhealthy society, in that you think you have any kind of objective stance from which to call sex acts or sexual desires to be vulgar.

    It’s not unhealthy to have standards.

  10. Phil_McG
    July 12th, 2015 @ 8:44 am

    I don’t think there’s anything wrong with young men wanting sex with young women.

    I do think a lot of young men these days are stunted in their ability to grow into men, and the fraught relations between the sexes are affected by that.

    That’s why it’s no longer uncommon to encounter males who are still living alone and playing videogames well into their 30’s, as if they were still teenagers. It’s arrested development.

    As for the young dudes, I do think there’s a lot more cluelessness about how to talk to and act around women than when I was their age.

  11. News of the Week (July 12th, 2015) | The Political Hat
    July 12th, 2015 @ 12:45 pm

    […] Feminist Tumblr: It’s Not As If They Hate Men or Anything Like That The fascinating thing about Feminist Tumblr is that it’s totally unfiltered. Nearly all of the participants are very young – a 25-year-old is a senior citizen on Tumblr – and also anonymous. […]

  12. DeadMessenger
    July 12th, 2015 @ 4:01 pm

    I hate puns, but I’ll admit that was slightly funny. That’s the best it usually gets with me and puns. : )

  13. Michael Hazzard Jr.
    July 13th, 2015 @ 2:13 am

    Evolution created masculinity for the survival of the human species and to beat the bears. Did a bear eat you today? Then be grateful bitch

  14. Matthew Lane
    July 13th, 2015 @ 2:50 am

    “Vulgarity exists”

    No it doesn’t. It is PERCIEVED to exist, which is not the same thing. You cannot weight vulgarity, it has no taste, it both does and does not rattle when you shake it, because it does not exist.

    Only your perception of it exists & as has been pointed out, your perception of it is 100% subjective.

    “Having no standards at all is just as much a judgement call as discriminating between normal, healthy sex and weird, perverted sex.”

    As with vulgarity, your judgment on classifying sex acts into one of those categories is also 100% subjective.

    To a pair of gay guys, penis in vagina sex could be classified as “perverted sex”, as all sex would be to a moderate Islamist, as talking about sex would be to an extreme Islamist.

    What about group sex? The romans considered that to be normal, healthy sex. So what makes your perception of vulgarity, or sexual classification more objective then theirs?

    So as you can see your “standards” are exactly that: YOURS & 100% subjective.

    “A man and a woman who love each other turning down the lights and putting on the Marvin Gaye CD before they make a baby in the privacy of their own bedroom is a beautiful thing.”

    Not to say a pair of gay men. To them that would potentially be considered aberrational. Because as with your own standards, theirs would also be 100% subjective.

    “A group of furries yiffing each other in their crusty polyester costumes is not.”

    According to you, but to them it is as healthy as you consider straight sex, in the missionary position, for the express purpose of reproduction.

    Both are equally subjective.

    “It’s not unhealthy to have standards.”

    It is when those standards have no basis in objective reality & then you attempt to force them on to others if if they were objective.

  15. Matthew Lane
    July 13th, 2015 @ 2:57 am

    “That’s why it’s no longer uncommon to encounter males who are still living alone and playing videogames well into their 30’s, as if they were still teenagers. It’s arrested development.”

    No it’s not arrested development, it’s a rational mind looking at the current paradigm & after weighing the options coming to the rational understanding that they have no interest in the frankly toxic state of current relationships as they exist in the western world.

    That’s not arrested development, that’s the very basis of a mature mind at work: A mind with the ability to self correct.

    A mature mind coming to the inevitable realization that the amount of work that goes in to maintaining a relationship & potentially getting married results in no net benefit for men.

    A mind that has looked at the state of play, looked at their own parents & have come to the understanding that marriage shafts men & that shafting does not end until divorce, where it is replaced by the shafting one gets for going through a divorce.