Feminism arose from disgruntled middle-class white women. Athlone has a good post about this on ROK.
For example, the idea that gender is a social construct originated with French "philosopher" Simone de Beavoir in her book "The Second Sex."
Let's take a look at her background (source:
http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/phil/philo...oir.html):
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De Beauvoir grew up in a respected borgeois family, the eldest of two daughters. She adopted atheism while still an adolescent, and decided to devote her life to writing and studying.
Hmm does that sound like anyone we know? Oh yes, pretty much every contributor to Jezebel fits this description! She had no cares in the world, she rejected religion, and she decied to do the modern equivalent of blogging. How could she just dedicate her life to "writing and studying?" Because A MAN, her father, was already successful and she didn't need to worry about any dirty grubby things like money or a job. Can you imagine a waitress who worked 3 jobs and supported 2 kids writing or thinking anything like this?
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Her major thrust into philosophical analysis was due to her life-long friendship with Sartre. Using some of the ideas she worked with in Ethics and a few of the underpinnings of existentialism as described by Sartre, she went on to produce her famous work, The Second Sex. Working with the idea that women are the "other," and another statement: "that women is not born, but made," De Beauvoir delves deep into the history of women's oppression. This was the definitive declaration of woman's independence.
Well well, it all started because she was messing around with a MALE philosopher, Jean Paul Sartre. She felt that women were the "other" because that's how she felt about herself I bet. Throw in projection and solipsism, mix with existential gobbledygook, and voila! Her statement about women being made is absurd on its face. It actually applies to men, not to women.
Nothing is expected of women except that they look pleasant and have kids. They don't have to do anything special to accomplish that. It is men who have to struggle and prove themselves otherwise they are seen as worthless.
She had an open relationship with Sartre but would not marry him; apparantly he was short and ugly. She did have the hots for an alpha-male however, Nelson Algren.
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Beauvoir called herself Algren’s “wife,” a word she never used with Sartre; he gave her a ring. She signed one typical letter: “Good night, my beloved one, my friend, husband and lover. We were so happy, we shall be so happy. I love you so much, my local youth, my crocodile, my own, Nelson.” (In their private language of pet names, Beauvoir was the French frog to Algren’s toothy, toothsome crocodile.)
Source:
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and...ecomes-one
There is nothing new under the sun when it comes to women. The same patterns repeat over and over through the ages; they merely appear different due to the distorting lenses of time and culture.
So as you can see, feminism originated in the insane thoughts of a woman with a comfortable life who just wasn't "haaaappy." The same sorts of women propagate it today.
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