Femi-nasty

James Adams, of fathers4equality Australia, and Akiva Quinn, of fathers4equality Melbourne, comment below on the need to distinguish the goals of the proponents of gender equality from the destructive influence of those who are simply chauvinist and discriminatory. Taken from a recent post to the fathers4equality Australia Yahoo list, with permission.
Contrary to the current common opinion, most fathers are not "pedophiles and pornographers" as portrayed by the Radical Feminists.
The fact that so many people have bought into that idea, and so many other intuitively ridiculous concepts, makes a person wonder what happened to the concept of critical thinking. Or isn't it taught in the schools any more?

Our campaign needs a word that captures the essence of who we are fighting against. We need a rhetoric word, a slogan...

Nasty Feminists -> Feminasties!

1: Feminasty says exactly what we want it to say... Nasty, offensive, vindictive, mean, dangerous, hateful...

2: Feminasty is NOT anti-woman... Women are vitally important to our movement. They are 50% of the population, and 30% of Fathers4Equality! Few women will be offended by this term.

3: Feminasty separates the 'good feminists', from the 'bad feminists'. Few people these days call themselves 'feminists'. But most of us support the ideas of equality and fairness... the ideals that feminism originally supported. But the nasty, man-haters also call themselves 'feminists' too.
Feminasty separates the 'good feminists', from the 'bad feminists'. (see the end for a good definition of the different "flavours" of feminism by Akiva)

4: Feminasty is a word that everybody will instantly understand once they hear it. It is a word that can bee used in press releases and in the media, in conversation and in speeches... It will take off!

5: Many men and kids have been hurt by women... but the opposite happens too... there are bitches and there are bastards... The problem is the system, the Feminist Court, the C$A, Divorce Industry etc etc... It is the system that we need to fix up... there is no point in getting angry about individual women, or women in general... Feminasty is not anti-woman.

5: Most importantly, Feminasty has a sense of humour!

We can make this happen!
We've created a new word... New words are invented every day.. all it takes is a good idea and a good push... get it used in our forums, get it in Wikipedia, watch it spread like wild-fire through the Social-Service and Divorce Industries, into the Macquarie Dictionary... in our new 'action
team' structure, one team will be bloggers and other electronic activists...part of their work for the cause will be to post, and repost, and re-post important ideas to wikipedia...

James ADAMS (PartTimeParent)
Media -http://www.Fathers4equality-Australia.org
PartTimeParent@pobox.com
Ph 0417 258 364 Sydney, Australia

"The greatest love of all,
is a parent's love for their child!
Family Law betrays that love"

Please feel free to re-publish anything in this email.
Attributing it to Fathers4Equality or myself would be appreciated :-)

About Feminism...
FemiNazi, Rad fem, Femocrats, Wimmin, liberal feminist...
Like any social movement, the women's movement came in many colours, and some were quite weird... I smile when I realise that much of it is now dying along with it's aged founders.. like the influential Andrea ("all sex is rape) Dworkin who died last year... Many varieties of 'feminism' are also, finally, dying from natural causes!

Sadly, while the bulk of the feminasties are getting towards retirement... They are now also at the peak of their careers and hold peak positions in our bureaucracies... And they control huge buckets of taxpayer money... We have a long fight still... and every day mean more children have a parent robbed from them, and more good men suicide... every day counts!

Below is a discussion on the different breeds of feminist... very interesting!
Many thanks to Akiva Quinn!

Radical feminists are opposed to all 'male' institutions and are often gender separatists. Radical feminism believes that patriarchy or the oppression of women is the basis of our society and it opposes traditional gender roles.

Radical feminism is also called Militant feminism by its detractors, and often has ideological beliefs in common with Marxism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_feminism

"Some radical feminists ... have advocated separatism, a complete separation of male and female in society and culture"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminism

Lesbian feminism is often separatist, but it is not the same as radical feminism, and is really a branch of the gay liberation movement. Not really our target.

BTW, "feminazi" also appears in Wiki - "rhetoric to characterise women whose ideas are believed to be vehemently misandrous; i.e. having an irrational and extreme hatred of men".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminazi

The term "feminazi" is abusive and probably not very accurate as power rather than hatred of men is what motivates most opponents of gender equality.

Feminist bureaucrats or femocrats act to protect their entrenched power and the interests of women without necessarily hating men. They support the welfare, divorce and domestic violence "industries" to advance the interests of women over men. These "women's interests" feminists or victim feminists who claim women are powerless (rather than equal) are our target.

Summary:

The opponents of gender equality are a heady mix of Radical or Militant feminists and Feminist bureaucrats or Femocrats who oppose male roles and promote only the interests of women. Together you could perhaps term these "femi-nasties" though that is rhetoric rather than descriptive.

The supporters of gender equality are liberal feminists or equality feminists along with the shared parenting and father's rights movements plus women and men in general.

Hope that helps :)

Akiva