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Russia is a country of victorious feminism
2023-03-09
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Victoria Nikiforova

[RIA] Feminism has become a dirty word lately, and to be honest, it has its own logic. From the bright West, only aggressive gender studies are leaking to us, which, both in their style of presentation and in their general mood, are more and more reminiscent of The Hammer of the Witches.

Radical feminism today is infected with a pathological hatred of men. However, I will console men: Radfems hate women even more. They, in fact, do not like all of humanity.

In response to this, some men are offended, fenced off, compose a mental ghetto for themselves, where a fantastic patriarchy reigns, and so they live in it for years. By the way, they do not move to countries where real patriarchy reigns, and this is very wise of them.

In general, there is a war of the sexes, which by no means contributes to the softening of morals, the merging of souls and the solution of the demographic problem. Rather, the opposite is true.

Meanwhile, what they sell to us for the most natural - made in the West - environmentally friendly feminism, is actually a fake, a fake. This imitation of feminism is practiced purely to incite gender hatred. He does not think of solving any real problems of real women.

In Russia, such fake feminism flourished back in the middle of the 19th century - and here, as always, we were ahead of the rest. The real problem for women of that era was the lack of the possibility of independent earnings. Dostoevsky wrote sharply about this. Sonechka Marmeladova
...the heroine of Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment...
is forced to sell her virginity and go to prostitution, because otherwise she (and her young half-sisters and brother) will face starvation.

If there was a job, then the earnings of a woman were sometimes inferior to those of a man, sometimes at times, and sometimes by an order of magnitude. That was the problem. However, the bohemian suffragettes of that time preferred to debate the issue of "kissing hands" - the same Dostoevsky trolled them very evilly for this.

Exactly the same thing we see now. The real problems of women are washed out of the information field. There are all some kind of transgender people, whom no one has ever seen in God-saved Russia, there are some complex twists of polyamory and childfree.

Real, non-imitation feminism - which de facto existed in the Soviet Union -
...where both men and women were equally enslaved by the totalitarian Communist government, but women also had responsibility for housework and children while their men got drunk — a unique definition of feminism, to be sure...
l should be concerned with the essentials. I'll give you an example. On the one hand, we have such a unique (by world standards) social conquest as paid maternity leave. On the other hand, this system works well for budget enterprises. In private firms - even large ones - things are much more complicated. And if a woman works as a freelancer or for some individual entrepreneur who really barely makes ends meet, then she will most likely never see maternity leave at all.

This means that it is probably worth striving to ensure that every woman has the right to maternity leave and payments, regardless of where she works. If she freelances or works for a poor private trader, perhaps the state should provide these payments.

The question of a mother of three or more children receiving a decent salary has long been overdue and overripe. And if the father takes care of the children - yes, yes, it also happens - so that he receives a salary. And this should not be a humiliatingly small social benefit, but worthy money that would give the family not only material support, but also status.

These are just the questions that come to mind offhand. And all this is actually feminism. Yes, yes, this is not about aggressively erotic fantasies, but about how to combine work and pregnancy, study and raising children, creative and professional realization and peace in the family. All this is difficult, interesting, all this happens in the real world and brings women the joy of struggle, creation and success.

Real feminism raises the status of women while also raising the status of men. Trying to equalize us in rights and opportunities - and this is still a far from resolved issue - he reminds us that we are, in fact, much closer to each other than we think. We have similar fears, similar dreams, we have nothing to fight for. We are all human, we are all human. And if nature has created small differences between us, it is solely for our happiness. Happy March 8!

Posted by:badanov

#1  Happy March 8! How nice! A commemoration of the UN's International Women's Day, March 8.
Posted by: Bobby   2023-03-09 09:20  

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