@Zap: Didn't we already conclude that I was right and you were completely wrong? At least you said something like that ;)
Most of your post is just plain wrong, and you know it of course. Even though you think that no woman could be critical of feminism or radical feminism, I've showed you examples of that. Why would I, a woman, hate women? Now
that would be like "a turkey voting for Christmas" [sic] It's you who thinks women are illogical, remember?
@Tori: I'll congratulate you for not advocating castration of people who disagree with you. You seem to have a lot more common sense than the poor Zap above. However, your argumentation is still not without fault, as I will show you:
[really, though? The feminists? Seriously? Do you think there are membership forms or something?]
Nobody was implying that you need a membership card for being a feminist, just as there is no such thing for being an egalitarian. However, there is a mainstream in every movement, and in the feminist movement, that mainstream is increasingly adopting the views of its more radical wing.
Feminism is defined in terms of equality; if someone believes that women should have more rights than men, that person is, by definition, not a feminist.
Obviously, different feminists have different views on what feminism is and isn't. Feminism also likes to market itself as an egalitarian movement to gain more acceptance. In practice, however, feminist lawmakers have pushed for laws that clearly favor women over men. Words and deeds are not coherent.
Rape legislation is a perfect example. In many countries, including the US and UK, rape nowadays has a reversed burden of proof, i.e. the male accused of raping the female is guilty until proven innocent. If it is found out that the man and the woman have had sexual intercourse, and the woman later on says she didn't like it, then the man is guilty of rape unless he can deliver proof that he did indeed not force the woman. How do you deliver such proof? Should you start filming every sexual act you have?
This reversed burden of proof is unique in (western) legislation. Normally, people are innocent until proven guilty, to prevent all kinds of arbitrariness and misuse of legislation.
What's more, rape is, at least in the US and UK, defined as a penis forcibly penetrating a vagina or other place, i.e. a woman cannot rape in the eyes of the law. So only a man can be guilty until proven innocent, never the other way around.
If this kind of legislation is passed in the UK and USA, then radical feminism is pretty much mainstream feminism, don't you agree? If you truly want equal rights for men and women, then you should consider calling yourself an egalitarian instead of a feminist, as in practice these two terms mean completely different things.
If you find yourself on the same team as someone who says that men are raped as often as women, it's time to take a step back and have a little think.
It's not just me saying it is that way. Even the CDC, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, has found this in their studies in 2010:
http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/nisvs_report2010-a.pdfPage 28: 1 270 000 occurrences of females being raped within the last 12 months. Page 29: 1 267 000 occurrences of males being raped ("made to penetrate") within the last 12 months.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centers_for_Disease_Control_and_PreventionThe CDC is a US federal agency. I doubt Barack Obama and his administration are full of white male supremacists and rape apologists. Or do you disagree?
