You're saying that men are competitive, aggressive and purposefully intimidating, and we women are just supposed to understand and accept it as a gender trait? Yeah, how about NO.
Their competition just happens to be increasingly female, and females just happen to be more easily intimidated sexually.
So you're saying your gender is "winning" by raping my gender? Either that, or your mansplanation lacks what most excuses for sexism are missing - logic and common sense.
If you genuinely understood me to say anything like what you say I did, then I suggest you read the whole thing again. Otherwise, please stop slaying straw men.
I’m saying that women should fight back and NOT just accept it, but they need to fight back in ways that empower rather than disempower them. One way is for women fully embrace and own their sex appeal. If women weren’t so easily shamed by accusations that they exploit their sexuality for selfish reasons, then men couldn’t use such accusations against them so successfully. Said more plainly, you can’t shame the shameless. I’d like to see women be more shameless by owning their sexuality completely. Given your username here, I think you and I agree on that, no?
"I’m saying that if women weren’t so easily shamed by accusations that they exploit their sexuality, then men couldn’t use such accusations against them so successfully. Said more plainly, you can’t shame the shameless. "
This actually reminds me of when I confronted a man in the parking lot the other day for being a total dick. (It was a dumb move. Whatever. Moving on with the story.) And he was all, "You better move along, lady, or you won't like what I have to say about you next." And I was like, "AHAHAHAHA WHAT ARE YOU GONNA SAY, DUDE?" And he called me a bitch and a slut and I laughed in his face because I really couldn't care less about being called a bitch or a slut, and that embarrassed him in front of his friend.
In other news, I was lucky he didn't have a gun.
Where I see a hole is that effectively we are painting feminism failing as it is not playing by the rules of a Male constructed ruleset. It starts to raise questions like “is that the right way to do things?” There is no obligation to get drawn into power battles on this level and that seems to upset the male world as they find out all the constructs that allow them to thrive are not being adhered to. And there is no real reason why they should be.
Starting to do things differently always attracts resistance and things do not always go very well at first. Eventually, a new and higher benchmark is set and we all benefit. Its effectively change management.
Quite the contrary, traditional feminism (unwittingly) plays by men’s rules exactly. By insisting that women who exploit their sexuality for profit are somehow “selling out”, it forces women (to men’s advantage) to give away (under rules determined by the male dominated institutions of church and state) what men would otherwise have to pay dearly for.
So feminism doesn’t reject the male ruleset (quite the contrary) but it does reject evolution’s ruleset, and to women’s great disadvantage.
I do not even know where to start...
Feminism. You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.
Evolution's ruleset? What ruleset? The one that lets your gender treat mine like sexual objects without a brain? Again with the rape excuses? Heh. Got more MRAish myths to try and excuse your gender's centuries-long violent oppression of mine?
I have to bow out for a bit, I’ve got to go watch Star Wars with my bro!