To me a feminist, as the term is used today, is simply a woman who doesn`t understand herself or her nature and fails to find joy in life because she is trying to be something she is not, something she cannot be, and, if she understood herself, wouldn`t want to be.

In short, feminism, as the traditional use of the word would bring us to understand feminism, is everything it claims it is not.

At its root, it is both matriarchy and patriarchy treating women as second-class citizens through non-traditional expressions of very traditional gender role restrictions and expectations.

The mode of implementation is different, but the aim is the same.

Instead of female circumcision as practiced by African mothers and grandmothers to ensure their daughters and granddaughters land Mr. Right, American feminists use abortion to keep women unattached and available for Mr. Right with uncompromised vaginas, firm breasts and abs free of stretch marks.

Traditional **** shaming, used in the past by not-so-hot women to dry up the sex market with the intent of driving un-laid men their way, used to take the form of malicious gossip and rumor mongering concerning the sexual exploits of prettier women.

Today it takes the form of ever clearer and ever more awkward and uncomfortable verbal consent to each and every level of intimacy paired with an implied threat of rape charges in the absence of this specific spoken permission leading to a sexual buzz-kill that couldn`t be any more penis shriveling if your parents were in the room.

The ages-old you break it, you buy it rule still applies to men, but there is no need for shotgun weddings today since the courts simply throw men who never wanted children in what is effectively men`s only debtor`s prison if they fail to pay what is demanded.

Bottom line: feminists treat women as children incapable of managing their own affairs while men are held to a very high standard of accountability.

Traditional feminism is both matriarchy and patriarchy on steroids, cross-dressed as progressive intellectualism and self-identified as somehow genuine.