«Today’s feminism teaches women to see themselves as victims and victims cannot exist without a villain, in this instance – men. In order for this thesis, feminists have made sweeping, inaccurate judgments about an entire demographic, based on nothing more than their gender. Ironically, the exact practice they claim to be fighting.»
Natasha DEVON, “Modern feminism has got it wrong about men”, The Telegraph, 15/05/2014.
«Earlier this year I was asked to present at a feminist society event in one of the UK’s largest and most prestigious universities. I espoused the view that I must be really lucky, because if recent feminist musings in the press and online are to be believed, misogyny is absolutely rife, yet I have very rarely encountered it.
I’ve had the odd blustering huffer-puffer over the years who has clearly thought himself superior, but I’ve always presumed that’s because of my comparative age and slightly avant garde fashion sense, rather than the simple fact of my vagina. (Whilst it isn’t right to form assumptions about someone based on these criteria, it does take the issue out of the realms of feminism.) These instances have, however, been incredibly few and far between. As for the men I regularly spend time with - my male colleagues and friends, boyfriend, dad, my three brothers and numerous uncles and cousins - they’ve never given me any cause to suspect they’re anything but pro-gender equality.
At the end of the session, one of the Society’s senior members said: “It’s great that you don’t think there’s any misogyny in your world, but I think if you talked to these men for long enough you’d find there were some pretty sinister ideas about women buried somewhere beneath the surface.”
In that moment, I suddenly realised why so many aspects of the modern feminist movement in Britain irritate me so much. Don’t misunderstand, I’d consider myself a feminist and I’m all for structural changes which ensure equal treatment of the sexes - the types that are working to ensure we have an equal number of female MPs and laws to prevent female genital mutilation, for example. But cultural “feminist” changes, the types that insist lads mags, and wolf-whistling are automatically offensive and should therefore be scrapped from the public consciousness, I have always struggled to comprehend. For, at their crux is the notion that men are either genetically or socially conditioned to be evil. This explains why relatively harmless acts - an admiring glance, a whistle, a propensity for lads mags - are imbued with such weighty significance, often lazily labelled as “rapey”. (…)
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«En mi opinión es pasarse de la raya… rozar el ridículo»
¿Por qué una misma mujer desnuda, dentro del tribunal es una obra de arte y en la calle, una alegoría sexista? ¿Y si repasamos la sexualidad de todos los símbolos históricos, tapar los genitales o los hiperrealistas músculos pintados por Miguel Ángel del techo de la Capilla Sixtina? ¿Debería el Papa cubrirlo con un paño negro? En mi opinión es ir demasiado lejos, pasarse de la raya de la razón y el sentido común incluso rozar el ridículo que este cartel haya sido advertido como una ofensa.»
«La discriminación siempre es ‘positiva’ porque hay alguien que se aprovecha»
«Ser mujer es la propia dignidad de la persona, de la que no hay ni que alardear ni que sacar partido»
«Las feministas deberían haberle dado un homenaje en condiciones y por todo lo alto a monseñor Amigo Vallejo, que fue quien de un dedazo (modelo Rajoy) metió a las mujeres en los tramos de nazarenos de las cofradías, cargándose la tradición en aras de un igualitarismo… Pero, claro, tratándose de cosa religiosa, ¿cómo las laicas feministas progres iban a celebrar este triunfo de la mujer en el machista mundo de las cofradías?»
Las mujeres que no amaban a los hombres. El régimen feminista en España. Editorial Almuzara, ISBN: 978-84-92924-05-9