Debating Anti-feminists: Why don't you call yourself an Egalitarian?

 One common argument feminists will hear is "If you believe in equality then why not call yourself an Egalitarian instead of a Feminist?" It has become a rather popular buzzword among anti-fems in the past few years.

Response #1  Feminism IS a movement that falls under the umbrella of Egalitarianism and have not only advocated for women but many other groups as well, such as men, LGBTQ, racial minorities, the poor, the disabled, etc... I gave examples in my "What have Feminists done for men?" post. 

Response #2  Someone saying "I am an Egalitarian" means absolutely nothing to me. I believe it is a hollow position because it does nothing for anyone. There are two problems with Egalitarianism as I see it. The first is that they don't actually do anything. My favorite analogy has always been to compare Egalitarians to the United Nations. Now don't misunderstand that statement, I think the U.N. is a great organization and they have good intentions. However, let's be honest. They just are not very effective in actually solving serious problems. This is because they don't actually do anything other than talk about their approval or disapproval regarding something that happens in the world.

The first problem is a direct result of the second problem, which is that they don't accomplish anything because they have no focus on any specific groups. Another appropriate analogy would be comparing Egalitarians to Occupy Wall Street in terms of how they fail as a force for positive change. Much like Egalitarians, OWS accomplish absolutely NOTHING because they had no focus on anything specific. They showed up and advocated for a myriad of different positions rather than just focusing on one specific thing. OWS could have potentially changed society as we knew it if they

A discussion about feminism with Sargon fans

Here is a brief argument I had with several Sargon of Akkad fans on his channel. As you can see, they all quickly disappeared from the thread after I dismantled their arguments. I was so bored that I even started debating myself. lol

 

UPDATE

I should have everything finally moved over from my old blog sometime in March and then I will begin making new posts here. I'm also trying to work out a few debates for the upcoming months. Yes, the dates on many of the posts i'm moving over are messed up. I will get them adjusted soon. lol

Rebuttal of the AmazingAtheist's Gamer Gate Video

Welcome to my almost dissertation-length rebuttal of the video above. I haven't had the chance to do a good shredding of an AmazingAtheist video since I had my own YouTube channel but I am sure it won't be too difficult to shake off the rust. :P

TLDR Summary: I illustrate how the video is filled with intellectual dishonesty, hypocrisy, a false dichotomy, baseless assertions, things taken out of context, poor-reasoning, jumps in logic that border on conspircy theorist type of silliness, sweeping generalizations and fallacies in general. In a nutshell, his arguments are easily refuted with basic logic.

"Zoe Quinn is a feminist (here we go), social justice warrior who is known for using lies, harassment and manipulation for her own personal gain."

Okay, lets break this down shall we? We are not even a minute into the video and we already have our first attempt to bash feminism. How is this actually bashing feminists as a group you ask? Oh, that is an excellent question, thank you for asking. :P Well because it is an attempt to establish feminists as the "enemy" here, which is a common theme for TJ and the video continues to do so later but I will get to that in a moment. What this "us vs them" narrative of gamers against feminists does is create a false dichotomy.

Why I am a Feminist

* I am a feminist because I have studied history and understand that without feminism, I wouldn't have the majority of rights that I enjoy today. That is a hint for the women who apparently have not studied history.
* I am a Feminist because I enjoy being able to vote.

* I am a Feminist because I enjoy being able to own property.

* I am a Feminist because I enjoy being able to get an education.

* I am a Feminist because I enjoy being able to get a job.

* I am a Feminist because any time a woman tries to speak up about issues that affect us, we are either verbally or physically attacked by some men. If its on the internet, you will be called ever name imaginable, threatened with violence, harassed, etc... If its in the real world, we have seen things like the Montreal Massacre, where many women were murdered by an Anti-Feminist. The threat of another Montreal Massacre was recently used to scare Anita Sarkeesian into canceling her speech at a university campus. Feminists in middle-eastern countries are also under the threat of
death, such as Malala Yousafzai, who was shot just for promoting education for women. And we can't forget Pussy Riot, the feminist  Punk band in Russia who were thrown in prison just for speaking out about feminism and LGBT rights.

Anti-Feminist Tactics: Why are some men this afraid of Feminism?

If you are a gamer then you probably already know that Anita Sarkeesian and some other women have been targeted with death threats just for speaking out about sexism in gaming. It reached the point where the case is being investigated by the FBI and Sarkeesian had to leave her home for a while. She also recently had to cancel a speech at a university campus after someone called in a threat to turn it into another Montreal Masscare. For those of you unfamiliar with the Montreal Massacre, it was a mass shooting committed by an Anti-Feminist, where 14 women were murdered on a college campus. Why did he do it? He said he was fighting Feminism. Trying to intimidate women into being silent about these issues is the most common tactic you will see from Anti-Feminists and if you dare to actually speak about the threats then they say you are just "playing the victim."

I have been threatened quite a few times myself over the years, especially back when I had my YouTube channel. However, I will NOT be intimidated into being silent. When they have to resort to using tactics like the ones below, it shows that even Anti-feminists realize they are losing the battle.

Anyway, I thought I would list the common tactics used by these people so that you can know what to expect.

Wow, so I challenged a rather hostile MRA to a debate. (Updated)

In one of my previous posts I mentioned the Anti-Feminist YouTube channel that uploaded a fake video where this guy who sounds like he is probably 14-years-old supposedly "destroyed" a mysterious unnamed (red flag #1) feminist in a debate. The only problem is that you could clearly tell the so-called "feminist" was actually a guy using voice-changing software because of how robotic the voice sounded.

I made a post pointing out his blatant dishonesty and challenged him to a real debate with a real feminist. Apparently he responded to my email tonight (a day later) saying that he accepts my challenge and then he immediately (like 15 mins after he sent the email), posted this in my thread on his YouTube channel:

What? lol Yes, apparently I backed out of the challenge even though I had sent him an email asking who I would be debating, whether or not he was okay with my terms and what specific topic related to feminism he would like to discuss.