Once we were feminists

Research into the bullying behaviour of Nurses otherwise known as Horizontal Violence, typifies the style of bullying tactics that they use. Eeva Sodhi, wrote that as women get older their bullying becomes much more sophisticated and research by Barbara Leckie into the bullying behaviour of school girls shows a remarkable similarity with the Horizontal Violence found in the female dominated field of Nursing.(The mean girls of ER; Marie Claire)

Janice Fiamengo and Cassie Jaye are just two of a number of women, who transitioned from seeing themselves as a feminist to becoming more supportive of a gender that is regarded by feminists as the enemy: "men". Women who show that they feel empathy towards men and are supportive of men meet huge resistance. They are accused of being misogynistic, hating their own gender and as collaborators they suffering from the Stockholm syndrome or Uncle Tom's syndrome where women use passivity and submissiveness as a coping mechanism.

Such claims are attempts to try and invalidate their experiences, views and opinions of these women.

Cassie's reference to the group think mentality of the media is starkly demonstrated in a book written by Myrna Blythe Spin Sisters; How the Women of the Media sell Liberalism and unhappiness makes a very poignant point, in that women of the media strongly believe that all women should believe in the same things as they do and vote the same way. They cannot comprehend the possibility that other members of their own gender may have different ideas, beliefs, wants and experiences.

This is further demonstrated in the belief that only university trained feminist researchers are capable of interpreting women's experiences.

They then turn around and say that, after all, that is not what they meant. What they really meant is that women research subjects need to be educated to realize that feminist researchers, with their superior intellect and training, are in the best position to interpret what women's experiences are. Eeva Sodhi Manufacturing Research.

The British philosopher Roger Scruton has pointed out several prominent features that distinguish indoctrination from normal education. In a competent well designed course, students learn methods for weighing the evidence and critical methods for evaluating arguments for soundness. They learn to arrive at reasoned conclusions from the best evidence at hand. By contrast in cases of indoctrination, the conclusions are assumed before hand. According to Scruton, the adoption of a foregone conclusion is the most salient feature of indoctrination. In the case of gender feminism, the foregone conclusion is that American men strive to keep women subjugated. Christina Hoff Sommers; Who Stole Feminism?

Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect women and children. None of their pain or achievement is registered in feminist rhetoric, which portrays men as oppressive and callous exploiters. Camille Paglia