"Feminism is nonnegotiable.

[ferrumaeternum]

If you are not a feminist, you do not deserve to live. Do you think you grew out of the ground? That the stork dropped you off? You fell from a tree? NO. You came out of a woman. And even if a mother was awful, abandoned you, abused you, ignored you, made you hate yourself, put you on a diet at age six so that, to this day, you still have a complex about your weight, molested you, competed with you, made you join a cult, was jealous of you, was nicer to your brother than to you, sewed you matching outfits, made you eat liver or any other kind of organ meat (or, like my mom, dried fish!), gave you a Toni home perm, made you as crazy as she, did not love you -- you still owe her your life. You would not be here if it were not for her. I'm not telling you that you have to do anything for your mom. I'm just saying we need to respect women for the fact that they are where the world begins. They are the reason we are still here, an will continuue to be here. Forever. So if you are not a feminist, kill yourself. Normally, I do not advocate suicide, but this time you do not have a choice. You do not have the right to live on this planet, and you need to kill yourself and go to your misogynist heaven, which is much like the Playboy Mansion, where you can read all sorts of men's magazines like Maxim, FHM, Stiff, Hustler, Gear and, of course, Playboy, except...there will be no women there. No real T&A, just paper cuts and those annoying subscription cards that fall out all over the place, because since you did not appreciate the wonder of what T&A really is, and because you did not understand the importance of us being here, your exploitation of them makes you eligible for a hell where we are not there at all. Kind of like jail, but you do not get to make other inmates your bitch." - Margaret Cho

Not only is Margaret Cho fucking hilarious; she has put my entire ideology on this subject into words. Someone recently posted this in literaryquotes, and I felt the need to repost it here, since I've never really voiced my opinion on this matter. I also just think it's a powerful, thought-provoking quote. And believe it or not, I'm actually not a lesbian and I don't have some vendetta against men. Not like that matters much, anyway. My saying things like this is why I will be perpetually single. (That wasn't supposed to sound as bitter as it does.)

Comments

[losefocus.livejournal.com]

Wow, supports my belief that the whole world thinks they owe you something *L*
Randomly found your journal, neat :)