The Douchebag Bible (64 page)

Arkansas probably doesn’t have more privilege than

a black banker in New York City—privilege isn’t a big

tent that all of the subsets of a set stand under.

There’s also a question of cause and effect at

play: do white people have more privilege because

they have more wealth, or do they have more wealth

because they have more privilege?

Then there’s a question of how to quantify

privileges: how does male privilege stack up to

female privilege? Certainly, there are areas where

women are advantaged over males, and vice versa.

How do we measure different sets of privileges

against one another?

It’s not really as simple as some people wish it

were. A lot of people who make the “privilege”

argument want it to be “GROUP X HAS MORE

PRIVILEGE THAN GROUP Y THEREFORE

GROUP X IS EVIL.”

We need to move away from that sort of

argument, and start addressing the need for people

to be treated as individuals, not merely as extensions

of groups we perceive them as belonging to.

But such an approach would require modern

feminism to make concessions, and that's

something that they simply will not do. The way

feminists look at things is that half the country is

female, and males really don’t have the power they

once did, so women don’t have to really care about

extending the olive branch any more. Their attitude

is pretty much, “We will only accept non-females

into our fold if they prostrate themselves before us!

KNEEL, MALE SCUM, AND KISS THE RING. I AM

THE FEMINIST POPE AND I WILL PURGE THIS

WORLD OF NONBELIEVERS!”

They know that we’re not going to do anything

about it. So what’s to stop them? There are plenty of

women who hate men, hate masculinity and hate

masculine values. And they codify their bigotry as

part of an ideology to make it acceptable.

They’re a bunch of KU KLUX KUNTS.

Most human beings haven’t really caught up to

the fact that bigotry has evolved. Rednecks sitting on

couches hating blacks and Mexicans is passe.

They’re still out there—but they’re no longer

empowered. They’re a withered group of deflated,

defeated, bitter men.

The feminazis, however, are empowered. And

they’re organized. And they have mainstream

acceptability. They hide behind the guise of equality,

but what they really stand for is the solidification of

a new double standard that they promote, wherein

female values reign supreme over male ones.

It’s just another group of people looking for as

much power as they can get—human nature as usual.

All groups strive for power. For some, power is

desperately out of reach. For others, they’re

positioned just right. I think modern feminism is

poised for big things. I think they’re going to get a

lot more control, especially in academic circles.

We've already seen them hijack and conquer new

atheism, implementing draconian, male-blaming

rules for atheist conventions—led in their charge by

the aforementioned PZ Myers and the in(s)ane bigot

Rebecca Watson, more popularly known as The

Skepchick (she hosts a relatively popular podcast

and is a horrendous human being who's misandry is

outweighed only by her ego).

And what of female privilege when it comes to

reproductive rights? Think about this: Two people

have unprotected sex. Oops! They
both
made the

exact same mistake.

Here are choices a woman can make after that

mistake to abdicate herself of responsibility:

• The girl can take the morning after pill.

• She can take the one week pill.

• If she gets pregnant, she can get an abortion.

• If she gives birth to an unwanted baby, she can

legally abandon it at the hospital in most states.

Or she can give it up for adoption.

Here are choices a man can make after that mistake

to abdicate himself of responsibility:

•

•

•

•

That’s why I think that a man should be able to say,

“I forfeit all responsibility for this child, but also all

rights to this child.” Women have several outs. Men

deserve at least one. The concept is called financial

abortion, and I am a proponent.

We can't talk about feminism properly if we fail to

delve into the feminist complaint that media is

saturated with a particular body image and female

aesthetic that girls and women are pressured to

conform to.

I think the impact of such things has been

exaggerated. We’ve always depicted beauty in art,

and it makes sense that our affinity for the lovely

would carry over into advertising. Why would you