{"id":391956,"date":"2019-01-07T17:48:45","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T16:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/everything-that-is-wrong-with-mainstream-feminism-consortiumnews\/"},"modified":"2019-01-07T17:48:45","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T16:48:45","slug":"everything-that-is-wrong-with-mainstream-feminism-consortiumnews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/everything-that-is-wrong-with-mainstream-feminism-consortiumnews\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything That is Wrong with Mainstream Feminism \u2013 Consortiumnews"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Women controlling the military-industrial complex is not feminism, it\u2019s toxic masculinity. The fruit of a sick valuing system that is poisoning our environment and risking nuclear annihilation, writes Caitlin Johnstone.<\/span><\/p>\n

By Caitlin Johnstone<\/strong><\/a><\/span>
CaitlinJohnstone.com<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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These headlines are being derided by skeptics of the establishment mindset for the cartoonish self-parody of the corporate liberal mindset that they so clearly are, and rightly so. Pretty much everything in American mainstream liberalism ultimately boils down to advancing mass murder, exploitation and ecocide for profit while waving a \u201cyay diversity\u201d banner so that the NPR crowd can feel good about themselves while signing off on it. But the fact that these stories exist and have an audience can also be blamed more specifically on the failures of mainstream feminism.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A lot of men (and the occasional cultishly servile woman) like to bitch about the problem with modern feminism as though it is something that hurts men, threatens men, demonizes men, or robs men of their place in society or anything else they feel entitled to. This is all dopey nonsense which amounts to nothing other than a childish temper tantrum over men losing control over women that they never should have had in the first place; it\u2019s people whining about losing their slaves. That imaginary piffle is not what is wrong with mainstream feminism. What is wrong with mainstream feminism is exemplified perfectly in a mass media parade celebrating the rise of women to the top of the most depraved industry on earth.<\/span><\/p>\n

Playing Men\u2019s Games<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The problem that\u00a0true feminism<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u00a0seeks to address is not that there aren\u2019t enough women at the top of the corporate ladder, or that Americans refused to elect a woman to do the bombing, exploiting and oppressing in 2016. The problem has always been that…<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Women controlling the military-industrial complex is not feminism, it\u2019s toxic masculinity. The fruit of a sick valuing system that is poisoning our environment and risking nuclear annihilation, writes Caitlin Johnstone. By Caitlin JohnstoneCaitlinJohnstone.com Outlets like MSNBC and\u00a0Politico\u00a0have been excitedly running headlines titled \u201cThe military-industrial complex is now run by women\u201d and \u201cHow women took over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-391956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}