Registration of new members is currently closed. Guestbook opened for now.  Guests who have questions may post at our guestbook.  No lengthy debates please. Kindly note: MV is a place for serious learning through mutual consultation where we have zero tolerance for trouble-makers, narcissists and needless disputants. We simply stand for what is compatible with the Noble Quran regardless of titles such as "traditionalism" or "modernism." We have the right to our opinion just as you have the right to yours. All disagreements must be left at that. Final Judgement belongs to The Almighty.
MUSLIM VILLA - QURAN ONLY
March 18, 2024, 10:40:38 pm
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
 
  Home Help Search Arcade Gallery Links Staff List Calendar Login Register  

Feminism - A useful movement corrupted

+-
Shoutbox
November 01, 2023, 03:44:32 pm Zainab_M: Allahhuma ameen .. ameen.
November 01, 2023, 03:43:43 pm Ruhi_Rose: Yes .. making lots of dua everyday ..... watching those real life video clips, my face feels wet with tears all the time.  May ALLAH grant the best to these wonderful, brave & steadfast martyrs,  Ameen ya Allah.
November 01, 2023, 03:38:26 pm Zainab_M: Keep praying, praying a lot for Gaza. It's worse than a prison .. it's a concentration camp.  Children as young as 10 or 11 are having to care for their younger siblings ages 2, 3 and 4 becoz many have lost both parents.  It's a very, very, very tearful situation there.
October 26, 2023, 03:40:19 pm N. Truth Seeker: Don't forget to look up MV Blog Zainab's Lounge for our Gaza updates.
October 20, 2023, 04:24:44 pm Zainab_M: Right sister Heba.  Gaza hospital bombing has the fingerprints of Israel all over it.  For Israel this is no big crime.  They have done this and much worse many times in the past and intend to do the same and worse many more times in near future.
October 20, 2023, 04:20:20 pm Heba E. Husseyn: Catching Zionist lies isn't hard. Soon after Gaza hospital bombing killing and maiming hundreds, Israel was quick to accuse Islamic Jihad of a misfired rocket.  That didn't sound plausible because IJ does not have such sophisticated bombing devices.  Zionist lie was fully exposed when anglican archbishop of Jerusalem,Hosam Naoum,  said today that 3 or 4 days prior to boming Israel had warned Gaza hospital to evacuate. Yet CIA claims in its flawed analysis that the rocket did not come from Israel.  But conveniently does not explain how Israel could have known 4 days earlier that a "misfired" rocket from IJ was coming.  Yet on the basis of this flawed & bias analysis of CIA, Biden is comforting Israel he believes Israel didn't do that war crimes bombing.
July 29, 2023, 03:02:07 am Zainab_M: Yesterday was Ashura, Muharram 10, 1444 (July 27, 2023).  Read about this very tragic day and details of the world's greatest 7th century revolutionary: WHO WAS HUSSEIN.
June 28, 2023, 09:48:39 am Zainab_M: Walaikum As Salaam.  This was the first Hajj open to all after the pandemic. It was attended by 2.6 million Muslims.
View Shout History
Pages: [1]   Go Down
  Send this topic  |  Print  
Author Topic: Feminism - A useful movement corrupted  (Read 366 times)
0 Members and 4 Guests are viewing this topic.
Zainab_M
TEAM MV Founder
Admin
Hero Member
*
Posts: 6318



WWW
Badges: (View All)
« on: January 14, 2018, 01:04:42 pm »



Once upon a time feminism meant building an egalitarian society, the initial cornerstone of the ideology.  But it has come a long way since then with many needless twists and turns.  Presently it gawks like a vagrant; often capricious and goalless; commonly seen as the 'failure of soulless feminism' - part title of an article by Kim Domenico.  While I wouldn't agree with everything this piece contains, there may be a few thought provoking points.

A multitude of phony and soulless ones drowning the voices of a few earnest ones is the big sad story of the  movement called feminism.  Among all things one may hate to imagine, many "feminists" today actually had / have a record of inflicting abuse themselves.  Be it emotional, physical, domestic, whatever, abuse is just that.  It's variance is no presentation of options for the recipient of abuse to select from.  It's no longer exclusively about using gender to subjugate women.  It's just as much a gender subjugating its own gender.

The very soul of feminists thrown out of their moribund movement, outrage against men is the only passion they can grab which is no different from any other form of bias;  still more pathetic, it's no different from misogyny.

Soulless feminism dwells on 'identity politics' that's far more divisive than unifying.  More bluntly put, it has 'evolved' into a safe methodology for carving an identity for struggling narcissists.   Feminism like misogyny, walked on a fine line since its inception, having the potential of turning into an obsession (if not nurtured with care) which it has.  More often than not, obsession is a disease of the mind, ego and soul .... denial within oneself to acknowledge their limits alongside a strange paranoia of being controlled.  Recovery is hard as it involves stepping down-to-earth and the admission of everything the disease holds within itself.

But it's the illusion of powerlessness that plays havoc, pushing the obsessed to grab their fear-driven need to control just about everything themselves.  That brings the dire need for plenty of cover-ups.  As we see it now, this identity politics provides an appearance of presenting a true-blue case but evades every bit of its analysis, the realism of which feels too painful to confront.  More often than not, the hysteria is no less clamorous than any form of alt right fascism.  Rather than speaking out on abuse, it discreetly indulges in abuse, expecting the injustices it inflicts to remain concealed and thus negating the unquestionable truth it claims to uphold, that is, healing power contained within the act of speaking out by the abused.   Think of the great Italian poet, Maya Angelou, whose childhood sexual abuse at the hands of a family friend drove her to silence.  But as a young woman and later throughout her life, she was one of the most significant vocal public figures fighting to preserve the dignity of the soul for all men and women.  Mainstream feminists presently would preach the approach of Maya Angelou, yet many would not preach to the person at the receiving end of their own harsh behavior to follow Angelou's example.  On the contrary, they preach silence as akin to peace and humanity.  A typical example among public figures was the late and deceitful Mother Teresa who preached to the poor living in her squalid shelter that pain and illness must be silently borne as blessing from God while herself visited California hospitals and clinics for every pain, sneeze and cough.  In everyday life, within relatives and friends, the number of such monsters is countless.  For some or many, "feminism" is a convenient guise that's relentlessly utilized posing for a virtuous cause.

As the phrase goes, "Be yourself.  Everyone else is already taken."  Within the capitalistic system, materialism is the benchmark.  Think of those numerous "famous" men and women with abounding unearned praises and privileges.  That's because money and social status are the criterion that sets the values, not the quality of one's intent nor its outcome. Those who have failed to recognize their own individual 'genius' either look upon others to structure an identity for themselves or give way to resentment for the privilege enjoyed by the undeserving, not out of a spirit of justice, but out of spite and envy for not having it themselves.  Similarly, feminism today lurks and rolls aimlessly within this vast intellectual slum.





I don't know who the author of this cartoon is, but it's darn true.
Report Spam   Logged

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter

Heba E. Husseyn
TEAM MUSLIM VILLA Villa Artisan
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 4968



WWW
Badges: (View All)
« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2018, 09:12:04 pm »

Enthralling piece sis Smiley   A movement gone very wrong.  It could have been helpful for so many voiceless women around the world, instead it has only ended up as an ideology filled with acrimony.  No matter what topic of discussion you pick, if a feminist is around, they will spin it some way or another, and make it an issue of men vs. women.   Feminism is supposed to grant equality to women and men, not split them as rivals.  Moreover, that image says a lot.   A happy quiet homemaker is a feminist's biggest enemy.
Report Spam   Logged

Ruhi_Rose
TEAM MUSLIM VILLA The Avid Reader | Mom of 3 cute rascals
Hero Member
*****
Posts: 6271



WWW
Badges: (View All)
« Reply #2 on: January 14, 2018, 09:30:20 pm »



O yeah ..  "identity politics" is a very apt expression for feminism.  Good mind reading Sister Smiley  The goal of feminism of creating an identity is so embedded within feminists that they will zealously defend any person seen as a feminist even if that person is a convicted criminal.  Example, 90% of all female public figures who have made a name for themselves as 'feminists' supposedly fighting for the rights of women have defended Aung San Su Kyi's blatant complicity in the genocide in Burma against Rohingyas  claiming that in the past she stood up against her country's military, even though at present she has openly defended the oppression, murder and rape carried out by that same military.   In other words, for these people, their colleagues are more important than the principles they claim to stand up for.

Report Spam   Logged

Zainab_M
TEAM MV Founder
Admin
Hero Member
*
Posts: 6318



WWW
Badges: (View All)
« Reply #3 on: January 14, 2018, 09:35:21 pm »




A happy quiet homemaker is a feminist's biggest enemy.


Example, 90% of all female public figures who have made a name for themselves as 'feminists' supposedly fighting for the rights of women have defended Aung San Su Kyi's blatant complicity in the genocide in Burma against Rohingyas  claiming that in the past she stood up against her country's military, even though at present she has openly defended the oppression, murder and rape carried out by that same military.   In other words, for these people, their colleagues are more important than the principles they claim to stand up for.


So correct sisters ......
Report Spam   Logged


Pages: [1]   Go Up
  Send this topic  |  Print  
 
Jump to:  

Powered by EzPortal
Scammers & spammers will be reported | © If you borrow MV contents you must mention our link with hypertext | MV Team is not responsible for comments by members or guests.
Bookmark this site! | Upgrade This Forum
SMF For Free - Create your own Forum


Powered by SMF | SMF © 2016, Simple Machines
Privacy Policy