My Theory About Why Feminism is Currently Irrelevent to Millenials

[JurisDictum]

You guys ready for some good ol' American outrage?

In a burst of bogus feminism and commercial ambition, Mattel Inc., the global doll-maker, has announced that in 2018 it will market a Barbie doll wearing a hijab. Barbie dolls rarely impinge on political and social issues but this one is so unsettling that it evokes a wide range of responses.

The following quote will tell you about who the Barbie was modeled after and the general tone of the coverage:

Mattel fashioned their hijab Barbie after a real young woman, Ibtihaj Muhammad, a New Jersey-born athlete whose Muslim parents steered her toward fencing because it would allow her to be fully covered. She joined her high-school fencing team at age 13, and became Junior Olympic Champion while at university. Among fencers she ranks No. 2 in the U.S. and No. 8 in the world. At the 2016 Olympics she won a bronze medal while becoming noticeable as the first American to compete wearing a hijab. In the midst of arguments about Muslim immigrants she became, the Guardian said, “one of the best symbols against intolerance America can ever have.”

Is it so bad to put a Hijab option on the market? They are supposed to offer Barbie examples from every damn culture these days.

IDK if the Hijab is going away guys. Women don't want to be told to wear a Hijab...but they don't want to be told not to either. So their just going to do whichever one pisses you off more.

[Pokesan]

Originally Posted by AzzarTheGod [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm taking far right n second from far right

Rest can diaf

I'd pack her fanny

what the hell is idiot brunette in the middle doing with her face tho?

[maskedmelon]

Originally Posted by Pokesan [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'd pack her fanny

what the hell is idiot brunette in the middle doing with her face tho?

the one standing in the back? look like she doing duck lips.

[rahmani]

I'll give you a better reason why millennials are indifferent to feminism, a lot of us had teachers, then professors, advisers, bosses who are females. For me, there's virtually zero thought about whether my colleagues or supervisors are females. It just isn't something I think about (until I am cursing them under my breath for unrelated reasons)

[Lhancelot]

Originally Posted by maskedmelon [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

the one standing in the back? look like she doing duck lips.

lol, one of the most annoying habits of modern women is this! A family friend who is fairly attractive does this in all her pictures it's the most retarded shit I seen in a long time.

She's very vapid and wants to get butt implants and all kinds of stuff, obviously some serious self-esteem issues going on along with her duck lip pout.

[skarlorn]

Originally Posted by rahmani [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'll give you a better reason why millennials are indifferent to feminism, a lot of us had teachers, then professors, advisers, bosses who are females. For me, there's virtually zero thought about whether my colleagues or supervisors are females. It just isn't something I think about (until I am cursing them under my breath for unrelated reasons)

This is pretty close to my thoughts on the matter.

[mickmoranis]

Times person(s) of the year are a bunch of rich white cunts with a one sentence nod to working class rape victims.

[hyejin]

Originally Posted by rahmani [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'll give you a better reason why millennials are indifferent to feminism, a lot of us had teachers, then professors, advisers, bosses who are females. For me, there's virtually zero thought about whether my colleagues or supervisors are females. It just isn't something I think about (until I am cursing them under my breath for unrelated reasons)

it's funny. I never had an influential female teacher (since grade school anyway) or mentor even, and every female supervisor I had before I joined the owner class was a sadist/proceduralist with no insight into the work being done. I do tend to exist in very much male-dominated spaces though!

[mickmoranis]

Originally Posted by hyejin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

it's funny. I never had an influential female teacher (since grade school anyway) or mentor even, and every female supervisor I had before I joined the owner class was a sadist/proceduralist with no insight into the work being done. I do tend to exist in very much male-dominated spaces though!

this is an interesting point, I cant think of a teacher I had that was female beyond the awesome one I had in 9th grade and 4th and 3rd grades.

[loramin]

Heh, plus if you're talking about female progress in society, female teachers (a profession which has been "gendered" female for centuries in America) aren't exactly the best evidence of it. It'd be like saying "look there are lots of female nurses, women are equal!" ... and not considering how (relatively) few female doctors there are.

Originally Posted by mtb tripper the 2nd [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This is so wrong. I'm sick of people getting this wrong. I actually noticed that dictionaries changed the definition in the recent years. "Fem"inism. It is women's rights solely, and always was until maybe a year or two ago. Feminists started spewing this bullshit about feminism meaning equality for everyone. Equality for everyone is egalitarianism. Tranny pos.

Someone needs to re-read their history books. Since it's inception feminism has always been about equality of the genders. Egalitarianism is a more general term for the equality of all peoples, not specifically the different genders.

Originally Posted by Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906)

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

Originally Posted by Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906)

The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.

But you have to remember, just saying "women are equal to men" was a radical idea for the vast majority of human history. It's so easy to dismiss both what feminists in the past have done AND what feminist work still needs to be done precisely because those women fought and made great strides towards winning that equality (ie. because the feminists made this a much more feminist world, it's harder to see that it still is far from equal).