Recently in my graphic design class, Trevor told me to
look up this website: Conservapedia. The name really says it all. It’s a wiki
page for extreme Conservatives and the content is just as infuriating as it is
funny. As I was looking through the articles, one in particular caught my eye,
Feminism. There was a list of things on
the feminist agenda, including “shirking traditional gender activities, like
baking” and “condemning the God-given order of gender roles”. Following this
list, was one quote that mildly disturbed me, but also made me laugh
hysterically:
“The feminist
agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist,
anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands,
kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become
lesbians.”
The
complete and total ignorance in this article and website in general is the
exact reason that we need feminism. The ignorant authors of this article are
obviously under the influence that feminists are cruel devil worshipping women
with an evil agenda rather than rationally thinking women who want to be seen
as equals. The implication that baking and raising children are “traditional
gender activities” is totally ridiculous and almost prehistoric.
There
were many other statements in this article that were either way out of context,
or just entirely made up. The radical conservative writers and contributors act
as if the burning of bras is like the burning of books and buildings:
detrimental to society as a whole. It’s extremely obvious by this whole wiki
site that conservatives are not at all interested in a progressive society, but
instead want to set the time clock back a few hundred years so women remain
silent and in servitude of a patriarchal society.
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