As I have said before, I am no feminist. Not because I do not believe in equality of men and women, but because I do not believe in feminism the movement. During my University years, I elected to study one unit of feminism. I was extremely unpopular with the rest of the cohort. Strangely enough, not because of my stance on controversial issues like abortion, but because of my unwillingness to prioritize cultural behaviours over women’s rights.
Feminism caves
After over a century of unisex baths, last year Sweden made the move to gender segregate them. This was done in response to an alarming amount of sexual assaults, rapes and public masturbations occurring at these baths. And yet, this did not have the desired effect to curb the amount of violence against women at these venues. So now at Swedish Baths you can also find armed guards. The question on anyone’s lips who values the safety of women is: who are these perpetrators? And why are they only acting now?
This is something Sweden will not say, due to their self-imposed censorship. However, it did occur around the same time the country took on masses of migrants from the Middle East and North Africa. And it fits a particular pattern occurring all across Europe. Since the introduction of certain migrants, Europe has been facing an epidemic of violence against women. The Cologne attacks were not an aberration. Rather, they were the standard behaviour of many men coming from the Middle East and North Africa.
Recently, a young German girl went on YouTube pleading with German men to do more to protect women and girls from migrants. I found it interesting that she did not call on assistance from feminists. And why would she? Feminists are completely uninterested in the treatment of women when it comes from a culture that is not their own.
The silence from feminists is deafening
You certainly won’t hear a word from Naomi Klein, Germaine Greer, Madelaine Albright or any other feminist of renown about the brutalization of women found outside of the West. They either ignore the heinous acts of misogyny occurring in other cultures, or they rationalize it. Now that these cultures are being imported to the West, these women have become even more silent. There is only one feminist I am familiar with (Ayaan Hirsi Ali) who is vocal in her criticism of the severe misogyny found in Middle Eastern and Northern African cultures. And yet, she is not lauded by feminists, but loathed.
It is time for feminists to stand up and say, enough is enough. We are not going to throw away our rights and our safety so that men from a backwards culture can terrorize us. Equality of men and women is not like the wheel. It can be “uninvented” and rolled back. We must not allow this to happen.