Limbaugh: The Dehumanization Of Feminism Analysis

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What Limbaugh was trying to achieve, and perhaps to a great extent he succeeded in achieving, was the dehumanising of feminists to make them appear heartless. He was painting them as Toril Moi writes in her “I am not a Feminist But…: How Feminism Became the F-Word”, “feminists are a bunch of fanatics, a lunatic fringe, an extremist, power-hungry minority whose ideas do not merit serious assessment” (Moi 1737). This serves as a repulsive definition for many women still insecure and unsure of their footing in the man’s world. They still need approval from the ‘invisible patriarch’ as Bartky says “the disciplinarian is everyone and no one in particular” (Bartky 36). The identity of a woman as an individual is still dependent on the male. The stigma towards feminism largely comes from the male population. It is not surprising anymore that not only men, but women too have become misogynistic.
Women generally conform to the popular ideologies of their times because of an appropriation of a sub-ordinate position to the males in the society. This is in keeping with the idea that Bartky discusses in her essay, “To subject oneself to the new disciplinary power is to be up-to-date, to be ‘with it’ (Bartky 42). They have been naturalised by this false feeling of being free to critique an idea, one that finds favour with the more influential sex. By …show more content…

This is “playing the Nazi card” where you anger the opponent to detract from the main argument. This is precisely what the term aims at doing, instead of focusing on what ails feminism today, it is to derail any constructive thought towards a feminist ideal. Not ready to yield the supremacy that misogynists hold, they have resorted to name calling. Feminazism has nothing to do with feminism. It is, if at all a term worth defining, a form of misandry that should have no mention in the context of the women’s empowering

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