Study: Everyone hates environmentalists and feminists

[Squinch]

288. It's got me thinking, though. That post is an illustration of the reasons why there is no end

to my gratitude for the feminists who have come before me.

Forty years ago, only the tiniest fraction of women could make a decent living without a man. You had to find a man who would support you and keep a roof over your head and food in your children's bellies. Women were absolutely dependent on men for survival in a very real way, and even if they were twice as smart, it was their man's word that carried the day. The women HAD to be "appealing" to men in order to survive.

If some husband spouted the odious nonsense in that post, his wife would have to sit and smile and nod, or she was screwed.

I think a measure of how far we have come is that we have become aware of the fact that we don't need to appeal any more in order to survive. Once we would have been utterly vulnerable if we didn't have some man's approval. But now, for the first time possibly in history, we can bestow our appeal only on those men we deem worthy of it. And if they stop being worthy of it, we can withdraw it and move on, and continue to live very well by our own merits.

That just makes me happy. (Though I think it has made men like that very angry.)

I kind of love it that people like that find feminism unappealing. And that we can say in response: pfffffft.