JaC on Feminists

I was taught from babyhood that the strong must protect the weak-this ethic very much informed my Dad’s thinking. He was a WWII combat Veteran, and he definitely believed that men should defend their country and tribe in battle, but the ethic obviously applied to all sorts of other things as well-opposition to abortion, for example. And my parents never had to say one word about bullying: I was told often enough that the strong must protect the weak that I knew that my parents were very much opposed to bullying.

I would bet any amount of money that some feminists exist who believe that by demanding total equality, they are practicing the Golden Rule. They really, seriously believe that they are being nice to men; for instance, some women think that by demanding to go into combat with men, they are demonstrating their love for men: I have encountered both men and women who think that my opposition to women in combat is proof that I care nothing for men. But in many or most cases, the women who want to go into battle with men think that there is nothing wrong with abortion-and the men who want women to go into battle with men see nothing wrong with it either.

This is what really bugs me about feminism: feminists throw children under the bus while claiming to love men more than the women of the past did. In their universe, a woman who dies in order to save a man is a hero, but a woman who gives her life to save her unborn child is a crazed fanatic. I think they have it exactly backwards. In a way, I kind of understand where they are coming from? Being on good terms with grown men is more important to them than children. I don’t have children, I don’t feel particularly bad about that, and I also would enjoy the company of an adult man over a child any day of the week, but this is where moral principles are supposed to come into play: it isn’t just a matter of whom we like most or whose company we most enjoy. We have moral obligations to those smaller and weaker than us that we do not have to those bigger and stronger than us.