Is feminism motivated by negativity and spite?

Question

Is feminism motivated by negativity and spite? I am prompted to ask this when I look through some of the feminist answers on this GWS forum.

I notice that there is a lot of man-hate here and even when some of the feminist posters deny their misandry it is often clear from their answers that they may be telling porkies.

Answer 1

No matter how much we try to escape the over-generalized stereotypes that equal-rights groups fight against, they themselves all too often overgeneralize and stereotype. It's like trying to put out a fire with more fire.

Answer 2

No. Is masculinity or men's rights or father's rights or equal rights groups motivated by men disappointed with being left behind by their wives and children who don't want them and kicked them to the curb? Or since some of these men whine about losing their money are they money-grubbing selfish men  who don't want their children to get a dime of their money if a penny of it is spent by their ex-would they rather see their children do without to get back at their ex-wives? How many of these guys want custody or just want to yank their ex-wives chains? If they could see their kids night and day-how often would they really bother?

Of the men terrified of being called a rapist-how many of them have been charged with rape? How many of these men have been convicted with rape? Compared to how many women are actually raped-how many men are accused and convicted of rape and of those-how many of those men are innocent? Of those men worried about being charged with battering-how many of them have hit their partner? how many have been charged with battering? how many have been convicted of battering? Compared to the women battered and the men convicted of battering-how many men are convicted when innocent?

What about the men who do rape their kids and join these groups to get access to their kids to rape them again-what do men's groups do about rapists and batterers and child molesters who use their groups to terrorize their children and former partners? Or do you believe that all women and children lie and that not a single woman has ever been raped or battered and that all kids lie and no fathers have ever raped or beaten their kids?  

I'm prompted to ask this based on the masculinist men's rights equal rights fathers rights and anti-feminists answers that men and women make on this GWS forum. I've noticed in the years I've been here that there is a lot of female hate and even though so-called equalists such as yourself deny hating women-some of your questions and answers are disrespectful and hostile to women-are we to believe your assertions of equalism or your insulting questions and answers? I think you use this forum as a way to get back at women and have no idea what equalism means nor do you care to be equal towards anyone but another man-Even then I find it hard to believe you can restrain yourself from considering yourself superior to other men as well.

Answer 3

Feminism is driven by fear.  Radical feminists fear the truth and don't wish to see it.

Answer 4

Credit est mort is correct. Spend a few days on GWS listening to the hate-filled rants of the maladjusted woman-haters can make anyone a little sharp in their retorts.

Black people probably get a little sharp after listening to KKK speeches, too.

Answer 5

people are afraid of things that they know nothing of and are unwilling to open themselves to learn for fear of getting hurt.   women are just wired differently and I don't think it's for the betterment of mankind and I think they know that.  but I also think that many of these feminists have fallen in love, in an way over the top fashion and then it wasn't reciprocated.  now they are damaged and bitter.

  it's easier to hate than to learn to love

Answer 6

With the movement as it exists today...you might think so, huh?  There seems to be a need for their to be an enemy for a movement to pick up any kind of speed or momentum...and feminism isn't any different, from where I sit.  

Instead of working to make conditions better for women, there seems to be much discussion about WHY the conditions are bad, and WHO is responsible for that.  Not terribly productive...

Answer 7

i dotn class those women nowadays as feminists

they do, but thats cos thery have no real idea what feminisim is, so they think they are it, cos they WANT to be it

emily pankhurst  died for her cause

and nowadays they are whinging about a mars bar being too soft for their tiny delicate feminine mouths

if i were her, id be haunting them day and night!

what these woman are is prompted by ignorance and arrogance, not fear

they dont fear anything, cos they are so arrogant

i used to be what i thought was a feminist, i was all for equal rights etc

when began to hear they wre like that, i knew feminisim was so so over

and they had sullied its name and all its good deeds

Answer 8

You know the history of gws Celtish, it is something peculiar to here. A lot of grandstanding, defending positions, getting angry. Feminism is not entirely comprised of hate-filled feminists. Women tired of defending themselves from psycho-misogynists perhaps. There are radical nutters giving answers, but hammering their erroneous opinion is better than lamenting.

Answer 9

I have found that pretty much all strong ideological positions are motivated by negativity and spite.

I also think your question has been answered in the form of the thumbs down Super Ruper received for a very well thought out answer. And honestly, what kind of person gives a thumbs down to an avatar with two such obviously nice dogs?

Answer 10

The truth hurts. Specially when you don't have a valid counter argument.

Answer 11

Of course. It is motivated by...... men have that we want women to have that too.... Men don't have to do that....We want women not have to do that too....

What me and you see as man hatred, feminists see as attacking their oppressors.

Answer 12

I truly believe that it began to become an activist for equal rights and continues to do so as an extent.  But many of the feminists here have disclosed poor or no relationships with their fathers and forms of abuse in past romantic relationships.  I believe many of these women are "feminists" out of spite.  This question http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...  and gadgitgirlmbl's response to answers validated this belief for me.