How Pinterest Is Killing Feminism

dreckmal · 2014-07-24T13:22:52+00:00

This was the reasoning behind Simone De Beauvoir's famous quote in an interview with Betty Freidan:

“No woman should be authorized to stay at home to raise her children … because if there is such a choice, too many women will make that one.”

The truth is that the REVEALED choices of women once they are emancipated do not support sex equalitarianism or the denial of inherent sex differences, the revealed choices of emancipated women serve instead to throw those differences into stark relief.

Lady_Motido · 2014-07-24T16:58:50+00:00

I lost it when I read that Jezebel "create[s] truly smart editorial content for female readers".

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ddrluna · 2014-07-24T16:38:57+00:00

Wait, they're not talking about anything like how men-haters and victimhood-embracers are killing feminism, they're talking about how wanting to look fit and eat healthy is killing feminism? Was the person who wrote this on crack?

I mean, thank goodness they're getting blasted in the comments section, even though most of those people are just upset because "that's not what feminism means".

DianaDewAsmr · 2014-07-24T14:36:52+00:00

I always browse Pinterest for dress-like aprons so yeah, I agree :P

AlmostRP · 2014-07-24T17:01:48+00:00

The amount of butt hurt in this article is astounding.

sierrasecho · 2014-07-24T16:57:30+00:00

I love my Pinterest boards. It's mostly all fashion stuff... because how we present ourselves is important. I don't read fashion magazines, or other women's magazines. I don't like being bombarded with the schlock that comes with them (shitty dieting tips, beyond my price range advertising) So I use Pinterest as an inspiration. I can visualize what might look good on my short and curvy (legit curvy, not overweight curvy) body instead of a 6' tall rail-thin model. We all have to dress - why not try to make yourself look respectable. Wearing ill-fitting sloppy clothes says just as much about yourself as looking well put together.

My board is, always has been, and likely always will be, semi-private. Well, it's at least not shared with friends, or connected to my other social media accounts, though strangers can access it. I am not trying to portray to the world "my perfect life". It is purely for me.

There are a few recipes, some neat home design things and some crafting projects. But they are there to INSPIRE me to do them, or put my own creative spin on them. Encouraging creativeness? Heaven forbid.

[deleted] · 2014-07-24T14:41:51+00:00

If you look at my comment history, I've mentioned pinterest a dozen times. I love it!

jade_cat · 2014-07-25T13:07:26+00:00

"This isn’t where the internet was supposed to take us."

No. Just... No. The Internet was not supposed to "take" us anywhere. There was no "direction" imposed, nor should there be. The Internet was/is supposed to be a place free of censorship, a place of sharing for the world, where everyone could share (almost) whatever they want. Saying that "The Internet" should "take us" in a direction implies that it should brainwash women into becoming hardcore feminists, thus limiting their free will, which ironically feminists claim to defend.

[EDIT : grammar]

M3_Drifter · 2014-07-24T21:26:17+00:00

Reminded me of this documentary (skip to 29:30 if it doesn't do it automatically.)

AndTheSonsofDisaster · 2014-07-24T22:48:11+00:00

In a shocking turn of events, women are interested in womanly things. More on this at 11.

greyngreen · 2014-07-25T19:21:08+00:00

From an evolutionary perspective, the babies that thrived were the ones with mothers that loved to serve them, nurture them, feed them, clothe them, and build homes for them. What do we see on pinterest? Food recipies, sewing tutorials, home organization tips, etc. This is what women, as a whole, enjoy and feminists can't change it without a massive amount of effort to reprogram them.

Women that disliked children and serving families did not pass on their genetic material. Babies do not thrive without mothering.

ishx · 2014-08-03T03:12:19+00:00

My parents are doctors, so I raised my younger brother for most of his life. Of course women want to stay at home. Its a pretty easy job, regardless of how much hardship women might want to make stay-at home sound, compared to my summer jobs, like construction, carpentry and auto-mechanic, running my parent's household and raising my younger brother was very easy.

Yeah, thing is, there's not going to be many stay-at-home mothers for long. Not that many young men(22-35) are interested in supporting a girlfriend/wife.

And well, you can't really expect men to not dominate in medicine, engineering, construction and so forth. Women are short, weak, with no resistance, no power of will, with low Intelligence and with a very underdeveloped emotional capacity. That is why for thousands of years women have been tasked with the role of pushing out babies from their wombs and taking care of them. I mean, its not a function that requires much thought or strength or ability - female dogs do it, don't they? And I don't shower my dog with gifts or money or more than enough attention, so why should men do it?