I Am An Mra

JB wrote: "I challenge anyone reading this to find and piece of feminist legislation or policy and/or any feminist ideas form 2nd or 3rd wave feminism that doesn't have its roots in the the redstockings manifesto. The redstockings manifesto is the blueprint of all that feminism is. If you don't believe what it says then you are not a feminist. Period. . . American feminism can be traced directly to the redstockings manifesto. "

my response: And here he goes with this nonsense again that he wrote on hikingguy's story. Feminism came to be long before the redstockings manifesto ever existed so assuming feminism can be traced back to it makes absolutely no sense at all since feminism existed long before the redstockings manifesto ever did. Also, I challenge you JB to find any piece of "feminist legislation", and if you do, provide it, and all feminist policies, and feminist ideas from 2nd or 3rd wave feminism that have their roots in the the redstockings manifesto, and provide proof as to why you feel they do. I am a feminist, my sister is a feminist, my mother is a feminist, my aunts are feminists, my grandmother is a feminist, my friends are feminists, my husband is a feminist, my father is a feminist, my grandfather is a feminist, my uncles are feminists . . . and none of us had ever heard of the redstockings manifesto until YOU brought it up, and we don't agree with much of what it says. The same was written by many of the feminists here on EP. Most of them had never heard of it either and don't agree with much of what it says. Redstockings has always been considered a radical feminist group http://womenshistory.about.com/od/feminism/a/redstockings.htm, and contrary to what you and many feminist/female-hater MRAs claim, most feminists are not radical feminists. Feminism is a movement. The feminist movement consists of many different groups, and many of them differ from each other in many ways. Anyone who thinks that one particular group is the sole basis of the entire movement and that any member of the movement who doesn't belong to the group or agree with its ideology isn't a member of the movement, is VERY wrong. That isn't how things work.

People like JB who obviously hate a certain movement and try to claim that people who belong to that movement must agree with certain things that one particular group in the movement expresses, and must think certain ways, abide by certain beliefs, and act certain ways or they aren't part of the movement come off as pompous, arrogant, self-righteous, judgmental, closed-minded, know-it-all, fools. Doing that kind of thing is like me saying that all MRAs must agree with, think like, abide by the beliefs of, and act like the members of the "Good Men Project" (who I feel has the most equal minded, non-hateful, positive, activist members of any MRA group) or they aren't MRAs. Period . . . However, I would never say that because I am not a pompous, arrogant, self-righteous, judgmental, closed-minded, know-it-all, fool who feels that I have the right to dictate how people must think and act in order for them to be a member of a particular organization, movement, or group.