I Support Fifth-Wave Feminism
A History of Fifth-Wave Feminism and Its Aftermath.
In their analysis of the history of Feminism, many forget to ask this one crucial question that is fundamental to feminism: Where is its completion? Ideas that stay and progress over time won’t be stopped until it reaches their conclusion. As the famous genderqueer scientist Albertha Einstein says: “I do not know what 4th wave feminism will look like, but 5th wave feminism will be men staying at home and cooking for their wives”.
Few people know the immense scholarship and research done on this topic, some speculate that the fourth-wave feminism will be a gender war whereas others think that it’s about defining what a woman is. No matter what it is, it will cause a tremendous shift in understanding men and women and this is all thanks to Vincent Haron’s groundbreaking work “self-made woman”.
To prove that women had it easier than men, Vincent disguised himself as a woman named “Edwardine” and tried to live as a woman for 2 years as part of an experiment. He found out that contrary to his biases, women were excessively kind and understanding towards both men and women, they were competent in difficult tasks, and had many genuine struggles. Edwardine was accepted by women in spite of being “mannish” and they were friendly with Vincent even after he revealed the fact that he was a man, and not just any man, but a man who considered women to be inferior to him. This experiment made him realize that a lot of the struggles women face daily are due to men themselves. As a result, Vincent became depressed and proceeded to commit suicide due to his guilt, but his legacy lived on and shaped the public consciousness for the better.
As a result of this, much research was done by completely unbiased scientists who came to the conclusion that many knew deep in their hearts: Men were simply unfit to not only lead society but even unfit as equal partakers of it. Men were the cause of poverty, crime, and war and for the good of not only women who were violated by men, but the good of men themselves also, it was about time that people decided to make a revolutionary change for the good of society.
Fifth-wave feminism was seen as the final solution. Even though men committed numerous crimes against women throughout history, going as far as destroying their past, their matriarchal societies that focused on equality, and made them slaves to themselves in the name of patriarchy instead, Women decided that we can settle on a compromise for the good of both instead of taking revenge on men, and fifth-wave feminism was born as a result. Men due to them being unfit gradually started to be replaced by women in the workforce, and they became “stay-at-home husbands”. Women became the breadwinners as they should be whereas men looked after their kids and cleaned the house. This was for the better of all and society entered into a golden age as men themselves were also happy.
Over time, women started to become the leaders of various institutions that previously were founded, owned, and led by men. Whenever there was a political debate or a sports competition, it would mostly be women against other women and it would mostly deal with women’s issues. Men, being tasked with looking after the family was not expected to partake in any of these, since as the old saying goes “what men can do, women can do better”.
However, this golden age didn’t last for long, due to completely external circumstances that could not be controlled, problems started to occur again. People accepted the fact that men were unfit, but certain advocate groups started to preach for men to have equal rights with women. Many employers, for instance, were discriminating against men based on their gender which made it impossible for any men to find work and this forced them to marry a woman to survive instead.
Men’s advocate groups did not argue for anything unreasonable, they simply wanted equal rights and representation. Women decided that it would only be fair to give them so, and as a result, this was referred to as the start of Sixth-wave of feminism. The standard didn’t change, women were still the breadwinners whereas men stayed at home, what did change were the conflicts that came as a result of this newfound equality between men and women, for instance, while women had to wear conservatively to fit in with the dress code, men were freer, some even came to the workplace in wife-beaters, ironic! Women who tried to challenge, or at least navigate this laxness, but they were charged with sexual assault. This resulted in women ignoring what was a problem for them.
Men’s fashion started to become more popular with newfound freedom, particularly for beachwear, Louise Reard was a clothing designer who invented what is known as the “Speedo”, however, because it was so scandalous, no professional model wanted to be seen wearing it. As a result, Louise Reard convinced a 19-year-old male stripper “Michael Bernardini” to model it as it launched. Over time, movie stars and sex symbols who wore the speedo normalized it, and it had reached such a point where speedos were not just worn on the beach but in many public places with “speedo-like” menwear being introduced to the market that make it possible for men to wear them in professional spaces. Many men also had cosmic surgeries to “enhance” their sex appeal so to speak, when challenged by various pro-female advocate groups and accused of being a “manwhore” for wearing speedos and such cosmetic surgeries a certain famous male advocate said, “We do not wear these things and have penis enlargement surgeries for you, we do it for ourselves”. However, women’s rights groups accused men of using their sex appeal to their advantage in society.
To understand the daily life of men at the time, we interviewed “Steven Mulling”, a stay-at-home husband who runs the biggest philosophy podcast. He has been criticized by a lot of women’s rights advocates for living an easy life but he argued that even in an equal society, he was still oppressed since even though legal equality was achieved, many employers had still biases towards women, he’s a big advocate for affirmative action and believes the government should step in and encourage employers hire an equal amount of men and women. In his defense, he accuses his attackers of being “male hating misandrists” and oppressors of men and says that even though he married a rich wife who finances his life, he is still bereft of many freedoms. His life consists of cleaning the house, making food for his wife, sending the kids to school, and as a result, has a lot of free time and doesn’t get to do much, he occasionally invites his friends over and they spend time playing video games with each other until their kids come home from school. Steven when talking about his relationship with his wife says the following:
I love my wife, I really do, and I appreciate her for everything she does, but she must understand that I have my needs that do not necessarily correspond to hers. Every time she comes home she is a bit mean to me and is never thankful for the food I make her. She then always inaproppriately asks me to have sex with her to the point of forcing me to, and then she complains to me that I am not ‘into it’. She doesn’t understand that I also have needs and that it’s her job to understand that. Even if I live a privileged life thanks to my wife, it doesn’t give her the right to treat me the way she does sometimes and I try to have honest and mature conversations on this topic to help her understand this.
Steven as a child was at the top of his class and won the chess competition in his school many times, however, he was dissuaded by his parents since chess is a “girl’s sport” and that he will never be as good as Judith Polgar, the greatest chess player in history. In spite of all of this, his family faced economic hardships and had to work for lower wages compared to what a woman earns. After his first marriage which ended in a divorce with the properties and finances being divided half and half, he married again, this time, his second marriage ended with his wife raping him and carrying the baby from his seed in her womb. After this Stefan wrote a book advocating for abortion, he believes that women who rape men should abort their babies since the baby is from the man’s seed, and as such, it is a form of sexual assault and even slavery. After getting divorced and being paid in alimony and child support, he now lives with his third wife.
Another famous men’s rights activist, Emil Watson, started an initiative called “SheforHe”, pointing out the fact that although the western world is somewhat equal, the rest of the world isn’t and that we should preach the greatness of equality for men and women and advocate for supernational policies in which equality of men and women should be considered as an enforceable human right, saying that those who don’t should be treated as enemies of womankind.
According to gender studies professor Joan Goldmoney, women who criticize men for not being good husbands are suffering from “gender insecurity”, resulting in them projecting their trauma and expectations on men. Joan argues that women should therefore undergo equality and anti-misandry training to remove their biases against and heal themselves from the trauma of their childhood.
Such realities started to cause a rupture between men and as a response to men’s rights activism, women’s rights activism started to grow more popular, ironically this movement was started by a man named Alastair Villar, who wrote a book called “The Manipulated Woman” arguing that women did not oppress nor control men, on the contrary, it was men controlling women and taking advantage of their role in society. Another key event was “Gamingate”, an indie game developer by the name of “Zoey O’Cuinn” slept with five women who were gaming journalists and leveraged his sex appeal to get positive reviews on his game many gamers deemed as bad games.
Many more events such as this transpired, further deepening the rift between men and women. Even those who wanted to stay away from this were effect, for instance on dating apps such as “Tender”, various social studies found out that women liked around 62% of men whereas men liked less than 5% of women. Other studies found out that the Pareto principle was very much in play between men and women, the top 20% of women had access to 80% of men, whereas the remaining 80% of women had to fight for the bottom 20%. This resulted in many men settling down for a woman they didn’t like, resulting in infidelity and divorce rates skyrocketing.
All of this resulted in the final stage of feminism, the seventh wave. Women’s rights activists taking on the mantle of misandry proudly decided that it was time to actualize what was initially known as an innocent podcast name long ago as their universal call to arms: “K*ll all men”. A battle between men and women of the world commenced.
After the apocalyptical galactic war between men and women was resolved, history entered the era known as the "Hydean Utopia", where the only known residents of planet earth were men. This resulted in rapid advancements in politics, science, and philosophy and men were the happiest and most fulfilled they’ve been in their entire history since the Garden of Eve. Men were the happiest and most fulfilled they’ve been in their entire history since the Garden of Eve. This period ended when men discovered communities of women who did not fight in the gender war, and humanity continued in its natural state as patriarchy to prevent this disastrous war from happening again. This period is known as “Pax Hominis”.
