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BFTP: How To Be A Bitch

BFTP: How To Be A Bitch

By tigtog on January 7, 2011

This is not a repost exactly, as I am revisiting more than one previously published post in response to yet another comment left over at FF101 about How Feminism Killed Chivalry, So Enjoy Lifting Those Heavy Parcels Ladies, Because It Serves You Right. This is a favourite trope amongst the antifeminists, about how feminists will be sorry Real Soon Now because they’re saving themselves for real feminine women, who know how to be properly grateful when a man makes a big display of how nice he’s being right now when he could be being really nasty instead, but he isn’t being nasty right now, because he’s just Such A Nice Guy especially just for you.

Posted in ethics & philosophy, gender & feminism, history | Tagged androcentrism, blast from the past, chivalry, courtesy, NiceGuyTM | 1 Response

Feminism destroyed chivalry nyahnyah nyahnyah nyahnyah

By tigtog on April 19, 2010

Bingo, anyone? Don’t you just feel awfully cheated and played for a fool by feminism now?

Posted in culture wars, gender & feminism | Tagged androcentrism, chivalry, courtesy | 20 Responses

Blog Against Sexism Day: good guys and gold stars

By tigtog on March 8, 2007

Caveat: I hesitate to open this line of argument, because I’m sure there will be a fella or two who, after the Hoyden/LP Coultergeist misogyny threads last week, might think that this is aimed squarely at them. Please be assured that this issue truly is much bigger than a coupla fellas on a coupla Oz [...]

Posted in ethics & philosophy, gender & feminism | Tagged androcentrism, chivalry, courtesy, NiceGuyTM, sexism | 8 Responses

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