Is it normal that i find men who hold feminist beliefs repulsive?

Repulsive?!

I'm male, I believe in social, economic and political equality for both women and men. That incorporates ideals of feminism, therefore I could be considered a feminist (although I consider myself an egalitarian). So you find me repulsive? On that basis alone?

Because I think you deserve to be given the same basic rights as any man, you find me repulsive. That's sad. What's sadder is the majority of men on this poll think that's a normal perspective.

I find people who call anyone who holds a certain belief "repulsive", are repulsive.

All feminist beliefs? That's a pretty big blanket you got there.

I think this is fairly normal. But there are different extremes within Feminism. Some Feminists believe that females are better than males and housewives are a disgrace to woman, and then some believe women should have the same rights men have, but if they choose a more feminine, traditional lifestyle, then they have the choice. I personally find any extreme Feminists repulsive.

i dont agree i think they are free thinkers who make up their own mind

It's too broad I think "feminist beliefs".

A lot of egalitarian beliefs could be seen as "feminist beliefs" and I personally find egalitarianism to be super sexy. But if a man behaved a lot like the handful of loud, aggressive, narrow-minded, feminists who spout leaflet propaganda with no facts to back it up, I would consider it a turn-off.

I really think it depends. Feminism in and of itself isn't illogical or ridiculous, however a lot of people are, and some of those just happen to be the most outspoken, especially in the world of blogging. I think this new radical feminism is a joke and is serving no purpose aside from dividing women and men and putting ridiculous notions in people's heads.

If you're a moderate feminist who actually takes time to look at both sides of the issues and stand on a more egalitarian platform, you're okay in my book.

I would vote that we scrap feminism entirely in place of egalitarianism, but I do still think it's important to have that focus group on women's issues. But instead of complaining about that beer advert or this movie or that stupid, irrelevant issue, we should be focusing the feminist movement on those parts of the world where women are still second class citizens.

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"I can't help myself but I think that thinking abilities of men whose opinions are in line with feminist ideology are somehow deficient or seriously harmed. I have no intention to insult them and rationally I know that their intelligence is not objectively lower but I still think that an intelligent person can´t think like a feminist would."

This makes no sense. First you say that men who think this are stupid. Then you say that you don't mean to insult them???

By "feminist", do you mean the hardcore, anti-men feminists? Or do you mean TRUE feminists, who believe that women should have equal rights? What's wrong with men thinking that women should have the same rights as men? That's kind of like saying it's repulsive for a white person to believe in civil rights.

Well, fuck you, too.

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I think its normal what you say, woman are not interested in gays and gays are not interested in woman

I'm a woman and I'm feminist to the core. That said, I don't like you.

Crazy feminists are horrible. But please do not lump us all in the same category. Do you really find men who think what the suffragettes did as good as repulsive?

Do you actually care if this is normal, or is this just a platform for you to talk about your opinion?

I don't really give a shit let people believe what they want to believe.

Shut up slut. There now are you happy?

"Feminist Beliefs" is a very general term and honestly, I can't give you my opinion without something more specific.

It's like saying that all people with "Religious Beliefs" are closed-minded assholes. That can be said about Old-Testament Christians who have anti-homosexuality views, but to say that about a Taoist could be so horribly inaccurate that the "observation" isn't so much an observation but an insult born of ignorance and blind hatred.

I believe that women should receive equal pay for equal work. I believe that women should have equal rights. I believe that women should have the same opportunities open to them as a men do and I don't feel that a women should be barred from any profession *STRICTLY* (that's the key word here) because of her sex. I feel that women should be able to work for their own money, be able to keep what they earn and not have to play a subservient role in their household unless that is their choice. These beliefs technically make me a feminist, in the same way as my being a Mormon makes me religious.

However, a woman that believes that women should be exempt from the moral standards men are held to, that women should not be held responsible for their actions if they are attributed to another male, that women should be given preferential treatment in our society and that women are in some way superior and more deserving of said preferential treatment would also be considered, in some ways, a feminist, in the same way that her being Hindu would make her religious.

In the same way that my specific religious beliefs as a Mormon differ from the religious beliefs of a Hindu, so would my feminists beliefs differ from the beliefs of a militant feminist. If you're talking about all feminist beliefs in general, then I would say your opinion of men that hold beliefs like mine is severely misguided and does no justice to them. If you're only talking about the latter beliefs, then I would say I agree with your opinion. No one should support anything like that under the guise of equality.

Is this about a specific user?

Everyone who supports the feminist idiology is repulsive

I hate them too. It's a form of treason as well.

im a guy, i believe in gender equality and im against female abuse but i dont like feminists. some rant for hours about gender inequality to you as if you're to blame or change something. some feminists are also very aggressive and offensive to men. ironically they dont want women to be abused but they themselves abuse men verbally. it also shows that they have nothing better to do than complain about themselves

I personally think that a true feminist is someone who just wants equality. Yeah; go ahead and burn me at the stake, but I consider myself to be sort of a femenist. I don't go out an march but I do agree that women and men should have equality, the good and the bad. I think that a lot of people will claim to be feminist and want women to have better treatment than men, but through my eyes, that is not a feminist, and infact, I true feminist would despise someone as such. I don't know about you, but I think a lot of women have come a long way do to feminist.

To all of you ladies who do not seem to know what a feminist is look into suffrage and The Women's Rights Movement. You will find a lot of women who gave you the opportunities you have today, and I think that they deserve some respect for that. I also think that more than a dozen of you need to open up a book and learn what a true "feminist" is. If it were up to me, women would have the same roles, positions, and power as men the good and the bad. That means they would have the same positions in war as men. That means they would have difficult jobs like men. That means they would have the same hardships as men but also have equal pay and not be looked at as weak, helpless creatures but as someone who can live, fight, and fend for themselves.

The feminist movement has done a lot for you ladies in history and none of you are grateful for it, and I don't know if it's because you are afraid of your image on a little website or if you really have not looked into your history and studied on why you have the rights you have today. Well, I'm not afraid to say thank you to the feminst that gave me the right to vote and let me know that I can me more than just someone's house wife.

Yeah, I get it "Feminist claim to want equal rights but in reality they just want more than that, better treatment, the priness mentality..." yeah, I heard it a million times. These women who ask for this better treatment are not real feminist, and I personally think that they are making the real feminist, who worked hard, look bad.

But, whatever...look into feminism, look into women's suffrage, look into the feminist movement and I think that a number of you will be surprized that the things you learn.

Yeah; I'm a feminist. Yeah damn right! But I'm proud the hell of it. Burn me at the fuckin' stake!

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To the OP:
If you read these quotations, you will probably see why you cannot be understood by people who like feminists. If they see nothing wrong with these ideas, then they will hardly have the capacity to understand what you are talking about.

"The nuclear family must be destroyed... Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process." -- Linda Gordon

"I feel that 'man-hating' is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them." -- Robin Morgan, Ms. Magazine Editor.


"We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage." -- Robin Morgan

"I claim that rape exists any time sexual intercourse occurs when it has not been initiated by the woman, out of her own genuine affection and desire."
-- Robin Morgan

From her "The Demon Lover" (NY: Norton &amp; Co., 1989 Morgan doesn't hide her bigotry):

* p. 229: Sex to this point in my life has been trivial, at best a gesture of tenderness, at worst a chore. I couldn't understand the furor about it.

"To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo."
-- Valerie Solanas, Authoress of the SCUM Manifesto

"The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness...can be trained to do most things."
-- Jilly Cooper, SCUM (Society For Cutting Up Men, started by Valerie Solanas)

"I want to see a man beaten to a bloody pulp with a high-heel shoved in his mouth, like an apple in the mouth of a pig." -- Andrea Dworkin

"Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice." -- Andrea Dworkin

"Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies." -- Andrea Dworkin

Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman." -- Andrea Dworkin

"The annihilation of a woman's personality, individuality, will, character, is prerequisite to male sexuality." -- Andrea Dworkin

"Men are rapists, batterers, plunderers, killers; these same men are religious prophets, poets, heroes, figures of romance, adventure, accomplishment, figures ennobled by tragedy and defeat. Men have claimed the earth, called it 'Her'. Men ruin Her. Men have airplanes, guns, bombs, poisonous gases, weapons so perverse and deadly that they defy any authentically human imagination."
-- Andrea Dworkin, Pornography: Men Possessing Women

"The institution of sexual intercourse is anti-feminist" -- Ti-Grace Atkinson

"When a woman reaches orgasm with a man she is only collaborating with the patriarchal system, eroticizing her own oppression." -- Sheila Jeffrys

"All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman." -- Catherine MacKinnon

"You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs."
-- Catherine MacKinnon (Prominent legal feminist scholar; University of Michigan, &amp; Yale.)

"The more famous and powerful I get the more power I have to hurt men." -- Sharon Stone; Actress


"The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race." -- Sally Miller Gearhart, in The Future - If There Is One - Is Female.

"And if the professional rapist is to be separated from the average dominant heterosexual (male), it may be mainly a quantitative difference."
-- Susan Griffin, Rape: The All-American Crime.

"If life is to survive on this planet, there must be a decontamination of the Earth. I think this will be accompanied by an evolutionary process that will result in a drastic reduction of the population of males." --Mary Daly, former Professor at Boston College, 2001.

"Men who are unjustly accused of rape can sometimes gain from the experience." - Catherine Comins
...to be continued...