It's rare that I find something on Slashdot worth sharing, but this comment about how feminism has gone from a semi-reasonable movement to a completely unreasonable one is a good example:
It was, but it's following a common pattern of reform movements. Back when the movement started, the issue was obtaining equality before the law. That's been achieved, so the reasonable people have moved on to other pursuits, leaving the dregs behind. It's similar to the way that the leadership of the civil rights movement degenerated from MLK to the likes of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.
I know several women who are 1960s-1970s era feminists who cannot believe that Amynda Marcotte is a perfect example of what feminism means today. In fact, they were downright sickened when I finally got them to see what their movement has started to look like today.
That's a great quote
How astonishing, that something like this would spiral out of control and devolve into a entitlement movement!
Actually, I'm surprised that this was modded +5 Insightful, considering the bent of Slashdot.
Isn't that the standard entropic deviation, decay to entitlement?
That, and the more basic, human issue of needing an impersonal reason for personal failures.