Is feminism a disease?

[Giancarlo]

I do not define women. And I think feminism is a strongly valid movement to this day. It's part of global leftism about demanding equal treatment. Men have bullied there way long enough to power and men haven't exactly been the best leaders.

[giblets]

Feminism is bad because I met 3 feminists who like BDSM.

[Grandpa Troll]

I do not define women. And I think feminism is a strongly valid movement to this day. It's part of global leftism about demanding equal treatment. Men have bullied there way long enough to power and men haven't exactly been the best leaders.

Here you go....JUST FOR YOU GIANCARLO

[Grandpa Troll]

Feminism is bad because I met 3 feminists who like BDSM.

If they were like this one, I bet it did hurt!!!!

[Elok]

I'm going to go ahead and grab the obvious-answer points here: as feminism is nobody's trademark, there is no official set of criteria for excluding anyone from it, so--as with every other such group--in practice a wide variety of people self-identify as one for whatever reason. Sometimes these people are escapees from the lunatic fringe. Sometimes they have reasonable opinions, but no sense of either proportion or humor. Sometimes they identify as it in a rather casual way, because so many other people are calling themselves that. Sometimes they just cling to it as a temporarily fashionable identity. And then there are truly sane, sincere, principled people, who are the minority in this group as they are in every other, including the whole human race.

[Giancarlo]

Here you go....JUST FOR YOU GIANCARLO

Oh Puh-lease. Women didn't start all the major wars in the last two centuries... many of which are based on lies and fake nationalism.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Oh God. A sudden outbreak of fedoras has struck Poly.

[kentonio]

Kid will be lurking and smiling happily to himself..

[Ming]

Kid will be lurking and smiling happily to himself..

He hasn't lurked since August 5th

[rah]

Probably so.

But I have an issue with these certain republicans... as they basically tell you to act one way, but do the opposite behind closed doors lol

Again, hypocrisy is universal, but yeah, there are a few republicans that are particularly so.

[kentonio]

He hasn't lurked since August 5th

Wasn't that around the time Giancarlo started posting again?!?! OMG Giancarlo is Kid!!!

[Giancarlo]

Again, hypocrisy is universal, but yeah, there are a few republicans that are particularly so.

Yea. Especially when they talk about the sanctity of marriage.

It reminds me of a George Carlin quote... Paraphrased a bit...

"They ask what would Jesus do? They don't tell you that so they would do it, but rather tell others to do it".

Kinda describes a certain food stamp buying admitted criminal on this site. I am sure Jesus would have really approved of taking away food from the poor.

[Giancarlo]

Wasn't that around the time Giancarlo started posting again?!?! OMG Giancarlo is Kid!!!

No. I argued with Kidicious. He was on here while I was. I got back earlier than that. Go through his history lol.

[self biased]

Oh God. A sudden outbreak of fedoras has struck Poly.

and pekka of all people is patient zero. What a time to be alive.

[Dry]

Your observations?

This is weird. You are the second person I read who has that kind of experience. The first one said something similar: from all the female feminists he slept with, 100% of them were in kinky sex and wanted to be dominated.

Now, based on these 2 testimonies, I would go with my little theory on the matter.
We all know how often we have those stories of anti-gay preachers or politicians get caught in homosexual practises.
I have noticed that the most rabid anti-racists friends I have, when you scratch the surface, are in fact racists themselves. And the same goes for the most rabid anti-fascists, anti-whatever.
This led me to the hypothesis that when people have a tendency to some behaviour, but their value system condemn that behaviour, they will have a tendency to fight it with more force or rage.
The line of unconscious reasoning would go like this:
- Behavior X is condemn by my value system
- I have a tendency to behave as X, I find myself attracted to X (this is often unconscious)
- Being attracted to X and X being condemn by my value system, I perceive X as something very dangerous because very tempting
- I project this attraction and this weakness onto others, I think everybody is like me, weak when exposed to X
- X being so dangerous, I need to fight X with more conviction, force, energy, if not with rage.

This is a line of conduct I have observed in so many cases around me. The more extreme, rabid a person is (against something) the greater the chances are that in fact, he is attracted to it.
And X don't need to be a bad thing (ex. homosexuality). X only needs to be *perceived* as bad by the person caught in the mind process above.
And don't get me wrong, I don't say all rabid anti-racists (for example) are racists themselves, but the more extreme, the greater the chances are.

So, back to your feminists who like to be dominated.
If my little theory is right, I wouldn't be surprise that their sexual kinkiness (being dominated) comes in conflict with their value system (men and women are equal).
Maybe they are not able to reconcile those 2. Maybe they think all/most women are like them.
Maybe, unable to separate sexual fantasies and real life social interaction, they need to rationalize their attraction: "The patriarchy made us wanting to be dominated".
I guess they went into feminism because some form of feminism might help them reconcile their sexual impulse/desires with their value system.

So indeed, I don't think it is feminism that lead them to sexual submission fantasies, but the other way round. Women with such fantasies might have, on average, a higher level of feminism than other women.

My 2 cents.