Suzanna Danuta Walters: "Why Can't We Hate Men?"

Behold!

Another voice from the vanguard of contemporary feminism.

Far be it from me to interfere with an enemy who's in the process of destroying herself.

The vanguard of contemporary feminism really does hate men, and it's really, really obvious...so...whoever says they can't isn't other feminists. Well, they hate white men, anyway. Straight white men, anyway. 

   And, admittedly, most of the really spectacularly awful people in the world seem to be dudes...so...there's a point in there. Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Genghis Khan...all dudes! But dudes are also responsible for the vast majority of our great accomplishments as a species. The extremes just tend to be populated by dudes. There's nothing wrong with feminists or women or anybody noting that most of the ostentatiously, astonishingly shitty people in the world tend to be men. Well, that's the way it seems to me, anyway. But there's a world of difference between saying that and saying "men are evil," or "men shouldn't run for office. And if "we should hate men" isn't "hate speech," one wonders what would be. Walters doesn't actually say "I hate men," or "all men deserve hatred," but she all but does. (Me, I'm ok with her saying it if she believes it...but she's an idiot for believing it.)

   She also writes: "The world has little place for feminist anger." Which is a pretty odd thing to say, given the nature of contemporary feminism... I mean...there's no doubt that the supply exceeds the demand...but that would be true even if the demand were prodigious...

   Will this be a bridge too far for your average progressive in the street? I'd think so...but I'd have thought we'd have reached that point on multiple fronts years ago, but we didn't.

   tl;dr: stupid.