Feminist Myths Debunked

Feminist Myths: The Pay Gap, Domestic Violence, and Rape Culture
A hint of skepticism may arise when a male, due to the commonly held notion that women are still treated as second-class citizens, makes any criticism of modern feminism. Whether it is the gender wage gap, domestic violence, the “glass ceiling”, rape culture, or a number of other gender based stratification barriers that are keeping women down, it seems that women just can’t get a break. When discussing these topics though, it’s important to look at them as a whole, to delve into details, and not to just dabble in media/government statements that might not hold true when looked at with a bias towards reason. So, let’s start with that “gender wage gap” that keeps sneaking its way into the conversation.
If media pundits, politicians, and government funded intellectuals are to be believed, woman work tirelessly and sexual discrimination is the reason why every 75cents a woman makes a man makes a dollar. But is that true? While it may be the case that men do make more than women in certain situations, it’s not always the case that it’s for the same work. One of the ways that the supposed gap was brought up, was when sociologists were researching doctors, they noticed that men were paid more. The issue was, that’s only telling half the story. Woman are more likely to be general practitioners and pediatricians, while men are more likely to take specialized jobs such as surgeons and cardiologists. Now, this isn’t to suggest that it’s bad that women take a more general physician position, but simply that specialized jobs take more time in the form of schooling and are scarcer. We’re not going to dabble in the labor theory of value here, simply put the more scarce and requested for a resource the more the price will go up. This specialization and time put in for it is a large reason for the gap in a number of other occupations as well. Men are more likely to take jobs in hazardous fields (coal miner vs. a public school teacher), to take jobs in specialized fields that can require more difficult skills (engineer vs. a librarian), pick unrewarding jobs, take financial risks, and work at inconvenient hours and work longer hours. None of this is to say that there’s anything wrong with picking alternatives, simply put that this is where the occupational culture is at in this era. This has a lot to do with the glass ceiling as well. Women tend to stop trying to make their way up the corporate latter somewhere around after they get to salary positions equaling 80-120,000. This could be because they don’t find it necessary to have their lives controlled by their job, and want to work fewer hours.
I would like to point something out though; much of this only applies to married women, because here’s a fact that isn’t brought up in many feminist theory classes: never-married women without children earn 13% more than their male counterparts. For more information on this and sources, please check Warren Farrell’s “Why Men Earn More.”
Feminist also love to put themselves on a cross by stating that women put in long hours at home in comparison to men, but women are less than half as likely as men to work more than 50 hours a week . I would also like to put forward, that spending time with your children isn’t the same as being a damn coal miner, the notion that “they have the hardest job” is just another thing men love to say to get brownie points.
On to the “society is laid out for men” idea. I wonder, if society is geared towards benefiting just men, why is it that men are the only ones who have to sign up for selective service? Let me take a shot at it, throughout history – especially in pre-industrial time –birth was hell for women and many women died during labor. This meant that women’s biological disposability was risky for humanity as a whole; with no women you get no babies. With men, a different form of disposability enters in. That is, the social/cultural and manipulative disposability that gets men killed through warfare and dangerous occupations – a fun fact is that 93% of work related deaths involve men . It takes conceptual titles to manipulate good men to die for terrible ideas; these include hero, coronal, general, and soldier. With those titles, you also get prizes, like the Purple Heart, Silver Star, and the Medal of Honor. Simply put, the disposability of human’s lies with women who die due to biological and medical issues in labor, and men who are manipulated to die for lies.The truth is, society is not laid out for just men or just women; it’s laid out by and for those who con others into believing their lies and use force on everyone else who questions them.
Now about that “rape culture” business; I’m going to go ahead and grab the definition from that great free market invention known as Wikipedia: “Rape culture is a concept used to describe a culture in which rape and sexual violence are common and in which prevalent attitudes, norms, practices, and media normalize, excuse, tolerate, or even condone rape.”
If people mean rape culture is destroying just women, I have an issue. If people mean that rape culture is destroying both men and women, then they may have something. How is it destroying men? Men outnumber woman among American rape victims . How is that possible? Are woman running down men in back alleys and ripping their pants off? Of course not, but here’s a clue, 2.3 million American’s are in jail, 60% of them are non-violent offenders , and only 6.8% of them are women. Everyone knows that men are routinely raped in prison, to the point that Cop Drama’s continuously make fun of it by telling convicts “do you really want to be someone’s girlfriend?” The majority of rape in American is man on man, yet it’s joked about like it’s no big deal. That’s real rape culture.
Now let’s deal with the domestic violence issue. Domestic violence is absolutely horrendous and abhorrent. It destroys lives and families and is truly tragic. But is it really all about men hitting women? Two nouns, four words, and six syllables: “Frying Pans” and “Rolling Pins.” That’s how the media perpetuates abuse against men. When a woman hits a man it’s because he deserves it. If a man is to defend himself from a woman hitting him repeatedly, at best he’s weak and at worst he’s a psychopath who deserves prison time. A constitutional lawyer and author by the name of Phyllis Schlafly states this in regards to the flimsy nature of feminism, equality and domestic violence: “For 30 years, the feminists have been pretending that their goal is to abolish all sex discrimination, eliminating all gender differences no matter how reasonable. When it comes to domestic violence, however, feminist dogma preaches that there is an innate gender difference: Men are naturally batterers, and women are naturally victims (i.e., gender profiling).” A fantastic double standard in an ABC special showed this in “a reaction to women abusing men in public”There’s over 800,000 reports of women abusing men in the United States, and one could only guess how many men didn’t call the police because they were afraid of being considered weak or even worse, blamed for domestic violence themselves due to false allegations .
I realize that there’s more questions and statements from feminists near are far that may have not been answered, but I hope that these facts make you want to delve into this subject more and to not take feminists, political pundits, and intellectuals on their word.
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Aubrey Leigh August 22, 2014 , 5:06 am Vote0
This is very well written. I really enjoyed reading it. One of my big takeaways is that I should never get married so I can keep making the big bucks! 🙂
_ _ August 22, 2014 , 9:45 am Vote0
involuntary sex woman on man does not even show up in rape statistics, as it gets called something other than rape
so the numbers of male vs female victims are even more diverse than the statistics suggest
answering if that scenario happens by of course not is therefore not correct
other than that, great article as usual from you
Jeffrey Tucker August 22, 2014 , 12:43 pm Vote0
Good piece but the remember that the feminist movement was one of many great triumphs of liberalism. I don’t see the need to give up the word just because some statists have tried to appropriate it.
Carlos Morales August 22, 2014 , 8:26 pm Vote0
Just so I can have some starting point, how are you choosing to define feminism?
Audrey C August 23, 2014 , 12:55 am Vote1
I feel that it’s a terrific reason to give up the word. Words have power, and “feminism” has a lot of baggage – so much so that I’m not willing to take it on.
Kristian Biltoft August 25, 2014 , 12:53 pm Vote0
The same could be said about “Capitalism” and “Anarchism”. Whether or not to stick to a label will forever be discussed.
Dawn Hoff February 11, 2015 , 5:39 pm Vote0
So was democracy
Gabriel Mitchell August 22, 2014 , 5:20 pm Vote0
“if society is geared towards benefiting just men, why is it that men are the only ones who have to sign up for selective service?”
You have to understand dominance is not the same as being better off. Having only men sign up for Selective Service, perpetuates gender stereotypes such as men being the strongest and women being stay at home thus limiting the individual freedom of people. This among other things is how Patriarchal Culture is caused and furthered by the State, and not natural market/social function.
Carlos Morales August 22, 2014 , 7:42 pm Vote0
So, if say we set it up so that blacks must work farms – in fact, let’s just call them slaves – and only blacks are allowed to do so. Would this mean that blacks are the dominant race in the culture? You’re insinuating that drafting men as slaves to die in a war implies that men are the “dominant” group. It truly is amazing how much people will bend over backwards to push forward the feminist ideology.
Sarah Meyer August 22, 2014 , 10:02 pm Vote0
Fantastic article! Love it!!
Audrey C August 23, 2014 , 1:09 am Vote0
I love this video and article.
Feminism should be unceremoniously tossed into the dustbin of western history.
I can’t help but see the greediness and self-centeredness of feminism. I remember sitting in class listening to young women talk about why we needed feminism. A good portion of them were wearing revealing clothing. We were sitting in an air-conditioned classroom, learning. Many of us drove there in our own car. Since it was a community college, virtually all the women there worked – and as far as I know, their paychecks belonged to them, and not their husband or father. Some of us were likely divorced. If they were divorced, they most likely had custody of the children as well as a comfortable child support settlement.
I don’t even want to get into what they considered sexism. If holding a door was sexism to them, then what I experienced in the Marines would have shocked them speechless.
We have everything – but modern feminism wants more, and it has to come out of the pockets of men. I refuse to associate myself with such a movement.
Divest August 24, 2014 , 3:04 am Vote0
Wonderful article!
Divest August 24, 2014 , 3:07 am Vote0
Although a quick note, I think you meant “colonel” instead of coronal.
Mandie Koeckes August 30, 2014 , 3:05 pm Vote0
Great article.
I happen to enjoy the things that set us apart as genders. I agree with you on the double standards of rape when it comes to the victims. I don’t see how feme-statists (since we are on the fence about the feminism definition I will just use this for now) can shout out statistics about rape culture hearsay things like “you can’t rape the willing” if it happens to a man.
I’m not saying wage differences don’t exist, I used to get paid thousands less for the same job, and more hours, but if you don’t like how your employer runs their business than take your knowledge and experience elsewhere. Other businesses would love to have you.