Are these people for real?

[boot_the_grime]

So I occasionally stumbled onto this video on Youtube, since it was under 'related videos' to some videos about feminism. www.youtube.com/watch This is a woman ranting about feminism and "male disposability" - i.e. the "women and children first" mentality. The thing is, I agree with her on a lot of things, in that I despise the "women and children

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[boot_the_grime]

I'm familiar with The Birth of the Nation since it's such a famous part of film history - and famous for its racism as well; it often gets brought up together with Lenni Riefenstahl's "Triumph of the Will" and the works of Sergei Eisenstein in the discussions about art and propaganda, i.e. films that are considered great artistic/aesthetic achievements while also being horrendous propaganda. But I've only seen some scenes from "The Birth of a Nation", never the entirety of it - and I don't particularly want to. I feel it would be far more annoying than the other works I've mentioned: "The Triumph of the Will" is a documentary that glamorizes the Nazis and Hitler, while Eisenstein's propaganda is to use figures from Russian history to raise nationalistic feelings that Stalin wanted to raise at the time. Neither involve the direct and blatant falsification of contemporary history, and I don't know if I'd be able to watch that.

I went on a tangent there. Anyway, your comparison works - men are "oppressed" because they lost the privilege they had earlier. What particularly gets me about the video itself is that the "male disposability" she's complaining about has nothing to do with feminism - it comes from the Western patriarchal idea that women, like children, need special protection, while men don't. That's why the whole point of the video is absurd. It's not like people on Titanic were feminists and this is why they decided that "women and children" should get the lifeboats first. How can anyone complain about men being sent to die in wars, which has been going for thousands of years, or about male victims of domestic abuse not being taken seriously - and then blame feminism for it?! Some people are really confused.

[gabrielleabelle]

Yeah. There's no logic there. It doesn't make any sense.

:/