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    The Thinking Girl's Guide to Feminism
    The Thinking Girl's Guide to Feminism
    The Thinking Girl's Guide to Feminism
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    The Thinking Girl's Guide to Feminism

    By Rich J Chapman

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    A short book questioning modern feminist ideology, as highlighting its faulty premises and misguided reasoning, and the subsequent danger it is presenting to today's society.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRich J Chapman
    Release dateNov 18, 2017
    ISBN9781370928484
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      The Thinking Girl's Guide to Feminism - Rich J Chapman

      The Thinking Girl’s Guide to Feminism

      By Rich J Chapman

      Copyright 2017

      Smashwords Edition

      Table of Contents

      The false premise

      The biology of the sexes

      The genetic horseraces

      Hypergamy

      Those bloody Bell curves!

      The dangers of the ideology

      Economic skews

      Conclusion and discussion questions

      The Thinking Girl’s Guide to Feminism

      Introduction

      As with most –isms feminism is an ideology. And as with most ideologies, from communism to unchecked capitalism, it fits the pattern of being rigid and resistant to self-reflection and admission of possible error. Ideologies are, by their very nature, systems that start with a premise and fit all observations to it. Such a method of seeing the world means blind faith is demanded of adherents and truth and reason are to be eschewed. As history has shown many times over, such thinking is very dangerous and damaging, and modern feminism is no exception to this.

      This short book aims to expose modern day feminism for what it is: an ideology that denies basic truths. An ideology that demands blind faith in ill-defined terms and concepts that can mean whatever a user of the words wishes them to mean at any given time or in any given context.

      As an overall discipline, academia is supposed to find truth so as to make the world more understood and therefore possibly made better. As an ideology, feminism demands belief even though such belief is based on false premises – akin to physicists denying gravity – and whereby all subsequent theorising is thus wrong. Quite simply, in terms of serving and respecting the methods of academia and striving for intellectual rigour, feminism is next in line to astrology.

      What this short book’s aims are not, is a wish to return women to the kitchen sink, or keep them illiterate, or deny them the vote, or any other such ‘patriarchal’ evils. It is the opinion of this author that rights and liberties must be equal to all and that thankfully, through the efforts of previous women, such rights and freedoms have been attained. Quite rightly, women can now vote, receive an education, and are equal under the law. The aims of feminism: ‘the advocacy of women’s rights on the ground of equality of the sexes’ (Oxford Dictionaries), have been realised. But now these essential rights have been achieved the battle must end. For pushing a false and damaging ideology further in its wake will serve neither women nor men: it will instead just hurt us all.

      Indeed, it is the wish of this writer to show how things naturally are, in as an objective and dispassionate way as possible, so that we can then try for a better society by knowing how things are and working with them, rather than forcing an ultimately self-destructive ideological thinking upon ourselves. The aims of this short book is to hopefully prompt women (and men) to question the feminist ideology with observations that suggest more factual truths, instead of blindly following ideologues arguing how they think the world should and thus must be, as wrapped up and delivered in pseudo academic language.

      Remember: Ideologies have been proven to be dangerous. Always question them.

      The false premise

      Feminism has one huge fundamental flaw: it believes that it is social constructs, and not biology, which are the cause of what is observed between the sexes in the world. It is pure cart before the horse, post hoc reasoning and, as begetting the ideological nature of feminism, the cart’s position will never be questioned.

      The essential reasoning is this: babies are born blank slates, and if only little Jane played with blue cars and little Johnny with pink dolls, gender stereotypes would be abolished and men and women would be equal in all societal outcomes.

      This premise is absurd. No serious, thinking person, familiar with academic debates concerning nature versus nature, would deny the roles of both biology and environment in shaping individuals. Yet feminism’s need to totally dismiss the role of biology is reflective of its ideological bent. And such a false premise means all what is observed needs to be shoehorned into the catch all explanation of ‘patriarchy’ for any attempt at cause and effect to be given.

      According to Oxford Living Dictionaries the mass noun of patriarchy is defined as:

      - A system of society or government in which

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