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Am I The Only One That HATES Feminism?

there are images of many of the women's profile photos that were leaked and they were never going to make a Victoria’s Secret model call ague, ,any of them had the feminist haircuts with weird hair color and looked like they had never been to a gym

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Like everything else there are moderate and extreme forms of feminism.

The best feminists are the ones who get out and become successful in their chosen fields.

The worst ones are the ones who just sit around and whinge about being discriminated against.
Yes about right Sir R.

Growing up, yes there were dreadful misogynistic men about.
But also there some of those of the fairer sex that hid behind the mask, and weaved their self-serving devices.

A fairer world nowadays, fewer places left to hide.
 
Speechless .. except to say .. the narcissism, the cold calculatedness, the entitlement .. (and so on)
You couldn't do it better with satire .. maybe that's what it is?

 
Barrack Obama's 'wife' - what a gem. I saw a video of her a long while back addressing a stadium of female black college graduates where she exhorted them to not marry for love (I think I recall hed saying that explicitly - if was implied anyway) but to select a man who would advance them in their life's goals.

 
Never had a thought in their lives that wasn't transplanted into their brains by idealogues

 
SORRY FOR HAVING GREAT t1ts AND CORRECT OPINIONS.” Not my words, readers (although, having said that …)

Jeans, controversy, used bathwater: Sydney Sweeney’s selling it all. A showbiz masterclass, if you ask me

Five years ago, she’d have been doing feminist stunts – but times change and Sydney has captured the zeitgeist. She might flog that to you too

ORRY FOR HAVING GREAT t1ts AND CORRECT OPINIONS.” Not my words, readers (although, having said that …), but the words of a sweatshirt worn across the aforementioned acclaimed rack of Sydney Sweeney last year, shortly after some madly overheated controversy or other involving the Euphoria/Anyone But You star. I forget which controversy. Like Marvel movies, too many Sydney Sweeney controversies were made, and they all seemed to connect to each other in ways no one but the truly initiated could understand, so now only the saddos turn out for each and every one.

You might dimly be aware there’s another one going on at the moment, following Sydney’s participation in an American Eagle denim advert – a fashion retail event which obviously spiralled into some fatuous blue jeans/red state flame-war that has seen deranged TikTokers claim something about “eugenics”, the president trouser-rubbingly decide he likes Sydney Sweeney and American Eagle shares climb 23% in a week. Tell me the US will still be Earth’s dominant superpower in 30 years because I simply DON’T want to hear anything else. This is the behaviour of a culture with legs. (And a perfect ass, sorry if you can’t handle it.)

Anyway, aside from the white supremacist lunacy, there is frothing disquiet about the extent of Sweeney’s commercial brand partnerships, which include Miu Miu, Armani Beauty and a men’s grooming product firm for which she recently did a tongue-in-cheek ad to flog soap that contained trace elements of her bathwater. It all seems quite a lot of lucrative fun, which must, of course, be stamped on, particularly when it seems to be being had by a woman.

I had to laugh at the intervention in a New York Times article of the fashion analyst who said: “It seems like she’s not embarrassed or ashamed by promoting all of these different projects.” Oh my God. Imagine! In fact, that explicit mention of shame reminded me of something that I’d read last year in the Guardian, which described Sydney Sweeney as “problematic yet unashamed”. I do so enjoy these funny ways of talking – although perhaps one’s not supposed to?

I certainly genuinely loved the moment last year when Sweeney offered Vanity Fair a temperature check on the aspirational sisterhood of … hang on, let me get my reading glasses on … the Hollywood movie business. “This entire industry, all people say is ‘women empowering other women’,” Sydney explained. “None of it’s happening. All of it is fake and a front for all the other **** that they say behind everyone’s back.” Oof. Ladies and gentlemen, she went there. And how can you not love it? Chalk up another correct opinion and just accept that Sydney might not now get cast in a strong-female-led film based on a kids’ book, inspired by a theme-park ride or commissioned by a toy company.

As for Sydney’s online adversaries, what is it that cliched enemy characters say in the movies? “You and I, we are not so different after all.” Fact is, Sydney Sweeney is an actor. She wants attention. And – newsflash – so does some dreary TikToker making the nutty claim that American Eagle has done a white supremacist advert. They’re just a million miles less good at it than Sydney.

Unless, of course, my other theory is true: that there are masses of undercover Maga agents whose sole job is to pose as woke warriors and say things so provocatively dumb that they further degrade the already cratered global reputation of the American left. Or, to couch it in their preferred language: if the vice-president and Fox News seize delightedly and profitably upon the usefully idiotic things you say, then it’s just possible you are in your least desirable location – “the wrong side of history”. Or, to put it in even more basic terms: YOU ARE NOT HELPING.

Furthermore – and perhaps even more importantly – you are making the world less amusing. What you have failed to understand is something that us normies know instinctively. Namely, that this is how we want our celebrities, and most particularly our movie stars, to act. Most ordinary people want – and have always wanted – their movie stars to be gorgeous, fantastical, completely ridiculous figures in any number of ways, or else they’d be the most boring thing in the world: just like us.

We want our movie stars to be “unashamedly” hot. We want our movie stars to tell us that they literally have to sell their own bathwater to eat, then find out they have a property empire that includes but is not limited to a $3m house in Westwood, a $6m house in Bel Air and a $13.5m house on a private Floridian island with a 520-bottle wine cellar, an aquarium and an infinity pool with a swim-up bar.

Of course, not everyone’s a normie. It will have come to your attention that there are some people out there who want celebrities to drone on about causes, to post like it makes the blindest bit of difference and to hold fundraisers for Joe Biden till it’s miles too late. But these people are strategically bankrupt, don’t really have a cultural hinterland and should largely be avoided at parties.

Listen, five years ago, a commercially instinctive Sydney Sweeney would have done a feminist stunt or a tweet about mental health. Plenty of stars did, and made plenty from them. But nothing’s static and vibes change, so stars are doing different starry things now. Or to put it another way: they’re all in the infinity pool, but some of them are headed for the swim-up bar. That’s showbiz – try not to choke on it.

 
Too buried in entitlement and self-interest to be capable of self criticism on her own. No insight. Husband looks powerless in the relationship. She probably 'settled' on him as a provider and blames him for her other dissatisfactions. Women like her have to be pulled up.

 
So she plants herself in front of a camera in public and says she prefers not to be filmed. Esteems herself as an object of desire. Then she does what they so often do, casually calls the police over a trivia as if they're her personal force multiplier. Then the male simp white knight cop says in effect that it's "unfortunate" that they can't protect her. Then when she loses the debate she drops all pretence of civility and sneers at the guy calling him a "weirdo". All because they can't ever lose or be wrong. Tell me they're your friends.

 
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"We don't get no respect" - after Rodney Dangerfield

 

Hehehe, seems oddly autistic for a woman to even specifically identify as a feminist nowadays. Feminism is now the default setting for women - say 95% of Western women are feminist. They've won! Feminism is the standard. Once the Boomers and older Xers, who sold out the young men, leave their leadership and management roles then it's almost wall to wall women in charge.
 
Hehehe, seems oddly autistic for a woman to even specifically identify as a feminist nowadays. Feminism is now the default setting for women - say 95% of Western women are feminist. They've won! Feminism is the standard. Once the Boomers and older Xers, who sold out the young men, leave their leadership and management roles then it's almost wall to wall women in charge.
throw in the DEI and they have been oppressed and rewarded for all the complaining, its understandable why they 95% are. one thing they hate is they dont like responsibility or being held accountable and the problem is always caused by someone else
 
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