How do you, feminists, deal with the extreme anti sentiment?

Question

or people like that?

Answer 1

just ignore

Answer 2

What Kitana said.

I ignore it. Sometimes I mock it. It doesn't stay with me for longer than 30 seconds after walking away from my computer.

Answer 3

I am trying to learn to ignore it and not be over sensitive.  I am staying away from some issues.  I am ignoring the word feminist, lol, since I know who and what I am and anonymous people do not define me.  That is just here...honestly in my personal life, no one behaves as they do here or say the things that are said here.

In my family, my sons were raised with the idea that equal rights were a given.  My youngest son, who is in the Army, is in favor of female soldiers and says if you think they are not in combat you are a fool.  Even my alpha male supports equal rights and hates bigotry of any kind.

At school my students, male and female, are like my own kids, they just assume that everyone is now equal and are shocked to find out the amendment has never passed.  They are good kids for the most part and see the future as one of total equality for all people.

Answer 4

I surf away from Y!A.  

I simply don't see "extreme anti sentiment" in the real world.  I'm sure it exists in trailer parks and frat houses, but I don't go to places like that.

Answer 5

I don't really care.  They have so little grip on reality that I find it pointless trying to enter into any kind of discussion with them.  Let them think what they want, their ignorance is their own problem, feminism, and the rest of the real world, will continue regardless :-)

Answer 6

I just point out where they're wrong, then let them believe whatever they want.

Answer 7

Feminist deal with it with lies and propaganda mostly.

They use a set of tactics that shunts any wrong doing of their movement on to others. I.E. "If you don't agree with feminism then you hate women" mentality that feminists have. This is just a tactic to shunt blame from themselves while shaming others into pretending to agree with them. It is a very effective tool the have used for a long time.

Answer 8

I know that they wouldn't say it to my face and they will continue to hide behind their computers...

and I move on.

Answer 9

By shouting them down with self-righteous rhetoric.generally

But only after imperialising them fails miserably. I just don't agree with the policy anymore so they shud accept that and just keep it to themselves. Everyone can hold a belief but no one should force it onto the rest of the population

I agree with Rio in that respect

Answer 10

It's mostly hopeless trying to reason with stone-headed, repetitive characters, but you just have to give it a shot.

Actually I like a person who offers an argument, so long as it is an argument and not a floating opinion predicated upon prejudice. That's better than the pretenders who want to be all things to all people.

Answer 11

I abhor feminism, masculism, misogyny, misandry, and racism. I have no time for them any more than I have time for ANY s*x-based and race-based credo

"Anti-sentiment" is just a natural response against any of the above. Every action has its own opposite reaction.

Equalism is the future.

Answer 12

What Chevalie said.

  

Answer 13

I'm not a female, but I'd consider myself a feminist.

I would probably try to enlighten them to my perspective if I felt they were open-minded enough to handle it.  Otherwise, I'd just ignore them.

Answer 14

They argue, bicker, try to prove them wrong or prove or change their minds.  Why?  I don't know.  I find it pretty ignorant to argue with idiots...same goes for those who do not support men's rights.

Answer 15

I'm such a staunch feminist and it's so hard for me to deal with all the resentment.  I usually cry for hours on end and then I have a cup of tea which helps me relax.  I then attempt to find something to hate like perhaps a doughnut or something along those lines because hatred is so important to helping me cope with all the oppression I face.

Answer 16

As a psych nurse and counselor, it is easy for me to see racism and sexism as the psychological illnesses they are.  And, so, as I approach any person who is disturbed with extreme hates and paranoia, I assess first for suicidal and homicidal tendencies and act accordingly to insure the patient's and the public's safety.  Then, I listen.  The more that people filled with hate and fear have a chance to be listened to, the less isolated those people feel and the more they can participate in the social consciousness.  That is good and healing little by little over time.  And, I learn stuff by listening.

When ANY kind of viciousness is tossed directly at me personally, though, I go medieval not in defense but in offense.  That works because "scratch-a-bully-reveal-a-coward".   In my family, working with especially racists, we called it "Two-Fers", meaning, for every act aggression aimed at us, we bush back two times . . . two for one.  It is important to pick your battles carefully in the cesspools of some morbid cultural milieus because too much hate and fear can swirl like offal all around you and one cannot take it all on at once.  The most important point is to recognize quickly a personal attack and then not  put up with it from get-go because bullies and bigots feed off feigned indifference and passive response and will not leave you alone and go crawl back under their rocks until the cowards are pushed right back.  I make HUGE LOUD ANGRY scenes to bring attention to bigots' behavior, even though I do not actually feel huge, loud and angry over most matters.  It's just pollution control, a social civic responsibility to keep the water cleaner for all of us.