Okay so I browsed through the thread and thought I'd give my eighty cents.
What really annoys me about feminism is how feminists say that a woman's dollar is 80 cents and how institutionalized discrimination is everywhere and how the glass ceiling of this patriarchal society prevents women from progressing in society without ever backing up their claims. They base these claims of institutionalized discrimination in the workplace on for example showing figures about how only 10% or 20% or whatever of CEOs in large companies are women, even though that doesn't prove anything at all.
For a long time I thought that "a woman's euro is 80 cents" actually meant that a woman and a man working side by side in the same job had different salaries, which would of course be wrong. When I found out it actually meant that the combined income of all women in the society was only 80% of the combined income of all men in the society, I felt betrayed. I mean it's obvious that women earn less in total because they work less hours and spend more time taking care of children. This is a choice made by individual women, is it not? If a woman really wants to earn the same salary as a man, she just needs to dedicate herself to her work. No one has been able to indicate a mechanism which would prevent women from doing this. All talk about glass ceilings is just empty words if it can't be backed up.
And please don't say that "all feminist scholars agree that...". I've taken my share of women's studies and the main thing I learned about academic feminism is that you can't really trust most of the studies that come out of the department of women's studies, because a) most of the "science" isn't empirical at all but argumentative (like literature studies) and b) because their basic premises are often completely ideologically coloured and not based on empirical science. If you show me some good clean data on for example how more competent women are systematically being passed over and less competent men being hired in their stead, I'll be ready to admit that this institutionalized discrimination exists. Same thing goes for institutionalized racism. For example in Finland, Kenyans have a better employment rate than native Finnish people. Still this talk of institutionalized racism never seems to stop. Feminists just will not admit that perhaps most women don't want to be CEOs and have huge responsibilities at work (I'm not saying the women couldn't handle it, just that they might appreciate other things in life besides work).
What also pisses me off is feminists claiming that they are striving not for improving just women's rights, but for equality. What a complete load. At least in Finland, easily the biggest equality issue is the six to twelve month compulsory military service that applies only to men, but the
Ombudsman for Equality has never even touched on the issue, but rather concentrates on the discrimination of, for example, transgendered people. While it is important that transgendered people are taken into account as well, they are still a very small minority compared to the half of the population that men represent. All talk about compulsory military service as an equality issue is belittled and not taken seriously.
So yeah, I guess you could say I'm a bit anti-feminist. But you will not find anyone who is more appreciative of women than me. I'm convinced the world would be a better place if all our leaders were women. As for the friend zone: if you really see talking about being friend zoned as misogynistic, you really must be looking at the world through some pretty funky glasses. And rape jokes? The dirtier the better. Same thing goes for holocaust jokes, pedophilia jokes and incest jokes. I'm also sure the world would be a better place if people learned to laugh at serious issues when it's not hurting anyone. PEACE! AND LOVE!
