It is often said on these boards that New Zealand is a highly feminist society. After doing a little research online I have to disagree.
According to dictionary.com, the definition of feminism is:
1 The doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women EQUAL to those of men.
2 An organized movement for the attainment of such rights for women.
3 Feminine character.
Wikipedia has a similar definition:
“The term feminism can be used to describe a political, cultural, or economic movement aimed at establishing equal rights and legal protection for women. Feminism involves political, cultural and sociological theories, as well as philosophies concerned with issues of gender difference. It is also a movement that advocates gender equality for women and campaigns for women’s rights and interests.”
The question is simple. Is feminism in New Zealand advocating EQUAL rights for men and women? It would certainly appear that this is not the case, with various experiences on this site indicating that anti-male attitudes and policies are well and truly entrenched throughout New Zealand. Man hating is not part of feminism; feminism is about equality.
Now it could be argued that the New Zealand government and other governments around the world are giving extra help to females because of gender inequalities, thereby equalizing the gaps between the sexes in traditionally male areas, (pay rates and such like.) But this doesn’t make any sense either, after all, how can women have equal rights to men, if men don’t have equal rights to women; it’s a two edged sword.
Or is feminism truly just about women? This certainly seems to be the case in New Zealand, where the “equal“ rights of women seem to dominate our society. If feminism is about equality, then this can hardly be called a “victory” for the feminists; unless their agenda was not equality in the first place. In reality a search for equal rights would result in the feminists being just as concerned for the rights of men, and this would give rise to extra help in order to equalize human rights in the areas that men are not equal to women, for example in relation to family and children. Men were just as oppressed by the old sex roles as women, and although it is now considered acceptable for a man to play a more active part in the family, we are a long way from gender equality when it comes to other matters of the family, as is shown by the experiences of men during family breakdown.
The only conclusion is that what is called feminism is not about equal rights at all, both in New Zealand and throughout western countries. Men are actively discriminated against right throughout western society. It is considered fine in western society for women to display open misandry, to insult men in public, or thorough advertising; political policies are brought in that are anti male in their agenda; examples abound throughout this site in every area of anti-male behaviour and policy that we can imagine.
So with all this anti male behaviour from supposedly equality seeking feminists perhaps it’s time to find a new word whose definition matches the reality of the “feminists” in western society.
We know that “feminists” are no longer concerned about reaching equality with men. Two groups of people are either equal or in-equal and this brings us to the inescapable conclusion that the agenda of “feminism” is superiority of women over men. This certainly seems to match the facts of New Zealand’s treatment of men and brings us to a completely different word to describe these “feminists” A word that feminists themselves touted in the 1960s. Chauvinism.
According to dictionary.com, the definition of chauvinism is:
1 Zealous and aggressive patriotism or blind enthusiasm for military glory.
2 Militant devotion to and glorification of one’s country; fanatical patriotism.
3 Biased devotion to any group, attitude, or cause.
4 PREJUDICED BELIEF IN THE SUPERIORITY OF ONE’S OWN GENDER, GROUP, OR KIND.
It is this fourth definition that was applied to men in the late 1960s thereby giving rise to the term, “Male Chauvinist” this was based on an entrenched attitude in the past that men were superior to women. I might add that this attitude still exists in certain places in the world where feminism didn’t reach, such as Central Asia.
This definition, when applied to women seems to match the reality of modern western society very accurately. There is an increasingly disturbing trend of women seeing themselves as superior to men, therefore deserving rights that men do not have. This is seen right throughout western society, and is becoming more deeply entrenched as time passes. It seems that western society is becoming full of female chauvinists masquerading as feminists and pretending to be victims.
My challenge to all men and women is to call these “feminists” what they really are.
They are FEMALE CHAUVINISTS!!!