Feminism when it started was not even going by that name. It was the Women's Rights Movement. This movement was to help gain things like the right to vote for all women rather than just a few landowners under old laws. This many people will agree was a good thing. Progress. It is what came after that is questioned.
Power is addictive. Some wonder if the current incarnation of the "feminist" movement (in quotes because whether it actually is feminism by definition or just misandry hiding behind a pretty word is up for debate) was nothing more than people in the Women's Rights Movement not wanting to let go of the power they had gained once it became no longer necessary. If they are making up enemies to fight so that they can remain leaders of a mob. Some even think that they are doing so at the cost of society as a whole. Are these points true? Is one true and not the other?
I can't say for sure if the first is true, although I must admit that it seems likely. But the second? The second I agree wholeheartedly. Trigger Warnings, Safe Spaces, Preferred Pronouns and the deleting of comments that disagree with yours. These things are linked to the phenomenon where we can no longer "offend" anyone.
I wonder though, what would have happened if we had such things in the past? How would the Women's Rights Movement have succeeded in giving women the right to vote if their voices of dissent of the current system had been silenced? If they had been blocked from areas declared "safe spaces" and if their written words all had "Trigger Warnings" that would keep people away? How would their message have ever been spread?
How would the LGBT community ever have been able to go from having bricks thrown at them (something I am ashamed to say my own father has done) to now being able to walk openly, get married, etc? If "Safe Spaces" had existed in the past (a nice name to cover up what it actually is - Segregation - especially against so-called "cis-gendererd" white males) would not these spaces have been used against what was at the time considered a disease, a mental problem, or a demonic one?
I remember when college was considered a place to meet those outside of your personal circle, who have different views, who would challenge your currently held opinions and beliefs. This was considered a good thing! This is what caused people who had grown up being taught that LBGT were horrible sick disgusting people to learn that, hey, maybe they aren't so bad. This was how those raised of a particular religion would meet others of another religion and say, hmmm... maybe these people aren't completely horrible and deserving of death.
Now we seem to be headed in the other direction. What made America great was that it was a mixing bowl of cultures. We took the best from the ones we saw, and could leave the bad parts behind. Yet now... now we are headed back to a path of insular minds.
What, I wonder, do people think is going to happen to them outside of their precious "safe spaces"? Are they that afraid of their mental paradigms being challenged? Are they so afraid that they cannot back up their assertions and opinions with fact that they have to run away in denial? How is this in any way a good thing? Shouldn't truth, no matter how hard to accept, be more valued than self indulgent lies?
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