The Infestation of Feminism.

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Feminism affects our government, our society, and our lives in negative ways. It is based on very little and it has been promoted very effectively by women whose self-interest appears to be their chief interest: regardless of the costs to everyone else. Betty Friedan gave part of the credit of the start of feminism to Sigmund Freud, who believed that women were a strange, inferior, and less than human species. Since the uprising of feminism, two generations of girls have grown up knowing they can do anything they set their minds to. Feminism's time has passed. Women now make their own choices. Feminism is constructed with lies and contradictions, and it negatively effects the home and family, often resulting in political malice. It is clear that as the women's movement of old has achieved equal rights, the new generation of feminists appear to be mostly social terrorists. The modern feminists are not the heirs of repressed women who fought for equal rights.

Modern feminists want to transform society, not seek equal rights for women. This is no conspiracy theory because they freely admit it. A problem with feminism is that too many women are simply offended, or pretend to be, by most anything said which is not to their liking. Feminists often react to the mildest of statements made by men with militant hostility. This has very effectively intimidated many men into silence.

Feminism is founded on contradictory lies. The fact that they're contradictory is no source of shame, because feminists believe that logic "is just a tool of the patriarchy to oppress women and that women have other, and superior, ways of knowing" (Sommers). The first lie is that men and women are interchangeable and that there are no differences between the sexes, other than anatomical ones. Because ignoring...