Women Against Feminism and Women Against Women Against Feminism – Why Everybody Loses A Bajillion IQ Points

If you're reading this you probably know all about #WomenAgainstFeminism. At any time if you head over to Twitter and search the hashtag you are likely to be bombared with a wrecking ball of fuckwittery from either side. Don't get me wrong, there are certainly a few people from both sides trying to engage in proper dialogue, but these folks are completely lost in the din of idiots screaming insults at each other. I can't be bothered to click the hashtag and see the latest because my eyes may start bleeding but to save you the trouble of reading it yourself it can essentially be summed up thusly:

#WomenAgainstFeminism Because [insert some bizarre and unlikely reason which completely misrepresents feminism] and also because feminists are bitches/sluts/satan-worshippers who eat the remnants of aborted babies!

#WomenForFeminism Why the fuck are you so God damn stupid, my fucking brain hurts just thinking about you.

#WomenAgainstFeminism See, I knew feminists were bitches. STOP OPPRESSING ME, YOU STINKING NO-ARMPIT SHAVING BITCHES!!!

#WomenForFeminism WHAT? YOU STARTED IT! You insulted my beliefs based on misinformation, you dumb mother-fucker!

And so on and so forth until everybody loses a bajillion IQ points.

As you can see, some really well versed and reasoned arguments on both sides there... Excuse me for being flippant (or don't, I don't care) but my frustration lies in experience, because I took to Twitter myself to try and dispel some of the BS grenades being thrown around about feminism. I'd perused the Tumblr account (I know, eurgh, don't even-) and found that many over at Women Against Feminism think that feminisms is about hating men, not shaving your pits and generally running around screaming "BUT THE PATRIARCHY!" I wanted to show people otherwise. I was attempting to be friendly and helpful, here's an example of one tweet that seemed to really get folks talking ('See, feminists don't hate men') --->

"Oh how nice, did people respond well, Pleb?" No, internet. No they did not. The responses I received to this attempt at friendly dialogue were so out of this fucking world that I had to stop replying to them through fear that my brain would actually implode if it had to process that amount of crazy. I was accused personally of calling all men rapists (I had never once done this before... but I do now, just for lolz), my boyfriend was accused of being an 'internalised misandrist' (because sure, why the fuck not?) and of course, as must always happen in any debate, I was compared to Hitler (I shit you not... evidence below and here). 

It was shortly after that I realised hardly anyone wanted to have a sensible chat about anything and the ones that did were being completely drowned out by the crazies. People just wanted to scream at other people. So I decided to leave it alone, carry on with my awesome life and let the rest of Twitter fight it out between themselves. (Well, almost...)

But now I'm done, honest. Because if you want to be a dick to people on Twitter that's cool, I personally love being a dick on Twitter, or on Facebook, or in the supermarket for that matter (‘Steal the last Pizza Express Individual American, will you? NOT ON MY WATCH, ASSHOLE!’). And yeessss, I know not EVERYONE has been a dick and if that's you, thank you, you did good, kid and I mean that. But to the rest of you who called people names and told them to “STFU” well, you just wanted to be dicks, so please stop pretending this is even remotely about Feminism. Because it's not, it's about dickishness. And you’re not helping either side of the argument. 

Personally, I'm proud to call myself a feminist. I'm proud of all the passionate men and women out there busting their hump volunteering at Rape Crisis Centres; or working with Police Forces to try and end domestic violence; or campaigning hard to stamp out female genital mutilation; or providing health care to pregnant women in need or HIV infected rape survivors. I'm proud of all the strong feminists out there who are trying to make real and lasting changes to make the world a better place for all of us. If you feel you don’t need them, meh, that’s cool. Seriously. But please don’t call a bunch of strangers on the internet 'idiots' and 'bitches' because they do. 

Please Mansplain Sex And When It’s Actually Okay For Ladies To Have It

Dear The Sun,

I just read your insightful piece about ‘Magaluf Girl’ and what a terrible excuse for a person she is, deserving of the utmost scorn usually reserved for baby killers and people who don't hold the lift when they totally saw me coming and I'd totally said 'Hey, hold the lift'.

Well done for sending your top journos to stalk teenage drinkers in Magaluf by the way, it really is important that people know where, how and how often these scum-bags are getting their rocks off. I mean sure, there’s people dying in wars or committing crimes and the general everypleb is being totally screwed in the arsehole by bankers, but hey, this stuff is just waaaaaay more important than all that so-called "proper news", right? Heaven forfend people didn't have a reason for taking to Twitter to annihilate the reputation of a young girl who licked a few tips. Oh, yeah, I did the maths. 24 guys in 2 minutes averages about 5 seconds per guy, and when you factor in time to get between them all then I assume she just licked some tips and it seemed like it was all consensual tip-licking to me and is that so big a deal? I don’t mean to down play this horrendous situation which will surely land us all IN THE FIERY DEPTHS OF HELL, I just think maybe my poor little lady-brain didn't understand why this was ‘news’. Is consensual sex and sex acts in a place where people go to do sex and sex acts really all that important? 

Is this okay?

Also my teeny tiny lady-brain was a teeny tiny bit confused about Page 3, which I don't want to attack of course, gosh no, because it is a "British Institution" (just like screwing the poor and invading countries). It just seems to conflict with the general idea that sex is wrong and immoral and disgusting and ladies shouldn't want any part of it. See, with you being a family newspaper and all, I kinda grew up feeling like a big part of what you were about was telling women we must be sexy and nekked and not bother ourselves with thoughts and opinions and such nonesense. Like we should be all ‘Oooooh, look at my lovely fleshy fun-bags, don’t you want to do a sex on me?’ But now I'm so confused, doesn't being all sexy and half-nekked usually lead to some sexing? And now you're saying that actual sexxing is not okay. Only letting men drool over my lovely t-shirt melons is okay. Because these seem like conflicting ideas to me. Not just conflicting but kind of massively hypocritical and cunty and I get a bit stabby when I think about it. 

So yeah, if you could please go ahead and ladysplain to my teeny tiny lady-brain when I'm actually allowed to have sex, and how often and with how many people and in which positions, I’d be super grateful! Or maybe just take the bare boobs out of your family newspaper altogether if you want to be so fucking uppity and judgemental about women having sex, you hypocritical piss-weasels. 

Sincerest Regards,

Pleb