Feminist preoccupation with power

WilliamWDelaney · Phoenix Joined: Apr 27, 2011 Posts: 1201

Hey, look! Another left-leaning ideology that pisses me off! The problem is that, in this case, I agree with the goals and core principles of it, but there are aspects of feminist ideology that I can get a little frustrated and impatient with. One such aspect is the belief by many retarded feminist trolls out there that anyone who disagrees with any aspect of feminism, no matter how pathetically weak, is a misogynist and obsessed with "putting women in their place." Another one that gets on my nerves is the widespread mindset that acknowledging any congenital difference between men and women, besides examples of how evil and moronic men are, means you think women are inferior. Some people don't believe I've encountered such imbecilic rubbish. Well, if you can't take my word for it, I would sooner take a warm dump on your eye than argue with you.

Anyway, let me blast off for a while about the feminist preoccupation with "power": it's stupid. You get that? It is stupidity in its purest form. The vibe that I get off of a lot of mainstream feminists is that every aspect of male behavior is an expression of a nonexistent male preoccupation with "power," and it seems to extend into areas that don't actually make any sense. For example, I was in a discussion with a feminist once involving the gender disparity in engineering fields, and she bore the belief that there was some kind of "glass ceiling" somehow keeping women out. The discussion went south from there, and she came up with some very stupid theories relating to this, all centered around the idea that anything you see men doing that women don't is somehow related to this nonexistent male obsession with "power" and "control."

There are aspects of being a guy that have nothing whatsoever to do with having power over things. For example, there is this weird thing in guy culture about collecting useless junk. You can tune into History channel and watch this show called American Pickers, and they are selling unbelievably useless trash for thousands of US dollars. Old ladies collect antiques and depression glass. Old men apparently collect useless rusted pieces of junk.

Somehow, I know that there is a feminist out there who would try to interpret that behavior in terms of the "male ego" and the "male obsession with power" that doesn't exist. The problem is that it's perfectly useless for me to try to propose any other possible explanation because the kinds of retarded clods who think about gender in this way don't want to hear any explanation for things besides their absolutely asinine (and increasingly annoying) belief that you can explain all gender disparity in terms of power and privilege.

Now, just to piss more people off than I already have, I'll violate another feminist taboo that I hate, which is attributing gender-related behaviors to biology. Oh, there is nothing that feminists hate more: if you even DARE credit any behavioral difference between men and women to biology, rather than culture, you are guilty of thinking that women are inherently inferior to men, even if you don't. It doesn't matter what your actual beliefs are: as soon as you violated this holy tenant of the feminist Torah, you were transformed, in the feminist mind, into the Great Satan. You are an infidel! You are an unbeliever! You are doomed to male patriarchial Hell for all eternity!

You see, I love to talk about the neurohormone vasopressin. It's related to oxytocin, and both of them have a reverse feedback loop with nitric oxide in which vasopressin/oxytocin stimulates NO- production. Oxytocin is particularly important in temperature regulation: under cold stimulus, it helps with your circulation at your extremities. It also induces "cuddling" behavior, and this is probably related to the fact that there is a large concentration of birthdays around the month of September.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Science/story?id=990641#.T3jC0PBrPQA

However, vasopressin is more important for fluid homeostasis, and its effects on behavior are highly weird and contradictory. The sticking point is that it is involved in the formation of marital pair-bonds, and this is the behavioral effect of vasopressin that makes it relevant to men who collect useless junk. Ladies, if you are considering a long-term relationship, never trust a guy who doesn't value his rubbish. Anyway, the gist of my theory is that instinctive hoarding behavior in men could be related to pair-bonding behavior, which would explain why every married man over 40 has a garage full of useless filth.

Anyway, you might wonder how this ties in with my objections to the feminist preoccupation with power, but here is the secret to understanding this entire post: the worth of my retarded, useless theories are not the driving point here. If you post a response that is related to my useless, unintelligible, rubbish attempts to play armchair scientist, you are either trying to be obnoxious on purpose or a retarded moron...or both. This isn't intended as a scientific discussion, but it's intended to express my annoyance of a phenomenon that has been driving me absolutely insane. The grievance is with an aspect of feminist ideology that leads to a complete severance with reason.

The human psyche does not revolve around power, and gender disparities haven't always been due to men grasping for control. Women, during ancient and medieval times, were perfectly capable of controlling their own destinies. They were not forced to be subservient to men. In a lot of ways, it was their idea. It was Woman's idea to present themselves as delicate and fragile. It was woman's idea to ask Man to play the "Knight in Shining Armor." All the men were ever interested in was figuring out the best way to convince their girlfriends to screw them. They never sought unchecked power and authority over the lives of half of the species. Men throughout history have been willing to kill themselves to convince their women that they care. Nothing is being imposed upon you, just because you have a vagina.

The problem with this power-oriented concept of feminism is that it is gasoline on the fire of the antiquated idea that women are somehow being forced into subservient positions, and it comes out as unreasoning anger. It causes otherwise intelligent, sometimes remarkably intelligent women to behave like paranoid, delusional morons. This departure from reason makes intelligent discussion impossible. I cannot have an intelligent or worthwhile discussion with someone who has her guard up because she suffers from a delusional fantasy that the world is out to rape her. It turns into adolescent name-calling, which is degrading to everyone involved. There is more to life than power, and there is something seriously wrong with your sex life if power is even a prominent aspect of it. A real lover is just obsessed with making you happy.

Anyway, just wanted to get that rant out of my system. Gone.