Why You Don't Need Feminism

Recently, I made a post about Mark Ruffalo's ridiculous and accusatory response to everyone who disagrees with him about feminism. Or, more specifically, the "I don't need feminism" internet phenomenon that was actually a response to the "I need feminism" internet phenomenon, but he had nothing to say about that one.

However, while writing that post, I decided I would look at some of these pictures of the "I need feminism" posts and see why they were so good, but they're not. They are beyond ridiculous and the fact that Mark Ruffalo thinks I'm an idiot because the modern feminism movement is absurd makes him an idiot.

So, to show you why these posts are ridiculous, I will show you some of these I need feminism signs and explain why it's stupid.

And the definition of feminism, for the purposes of this post, remains the same as the last thing it was last time I wrote on this subject.

Feminism: the advocacy of women's rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men.

Okay, so, without further ado, here I go.

I need feminism because I don't want my gender to make choices for me

The response to this is simple: it doesn't. Gender does not have a mind nor a conscious. It is incapable of thinking or making decisions. It's impossible for your gender to make your choices for you. The only one who makes your decisions is you. If you let your gender influence your decisions, that's YOUR problem and feminism won't help you with that. 

I need feminism because I considered not getting this photo taken because I'm not wearing make up.

I fail to see what feminism could do about that. Your low self esteem is not something feminism can fix. That's your issue that only you can do something about. Don't sit around and wait for feminism to march down the street with signs screaming their opinions about make up. Or maybe you want feminism to come put your make up on for you? Or talk you into not wearing make up? I'm so confused. Why is something that only affects you (your low self esteem and only feeling comfortable having pictures taken if you're wearing make up) a social issue? I don't care if you wear make up or not and neither does anyone else. Seriously. You are the only one. 

I need feminism because if you honk....I might fall off my bike!

Oh, honey. If you have such poor balance that a car horn would cause you to fall off your bike, then you really shouldn't be riding bikes. At least not around places where people drive cars. That's dangerous. Feminism can't give you better balance so you don't need feminism, you need practice. If you're around cars, chances are you're going to hear horns being honked a few times. Some people honk at other drivers for making traffic errors and we wouldn't want you to fall off your bike. So either don't ride around cars or learn to ride better. This really has nothing to do with feminism.

I need feminism because I'm tired of being called hysterical & over-sensitive

Well, if you are a hysterical and over-sensitive person, chances are you're going to be called that throughout your life. Those are something we call personality traits and feminism can't change your personality. What do you expect feminism to do about that? If you don't want to be called hysterical and over-sensitive maybe you should toughen up and learn to control yourself better. See what a difference that makes before deciding this is something society needs to fix for you.

I need feminism because at 7 years old, my little cousin wants to know why there is so much violence against women - and I have no answer for her.

Tell her this: the number of men and women in the world is about equal, which means women are approximately 50% of the world's population. With over 7 billion people on the planet, that means there are millions of women. Now, consider how many acts of violence are committed a year. Don't think about them in terms of violence against men or violence against women. Think of it as violence against people in general. Now, out of all those acts of violence, statistically speaking, women will be the victim at least half the time. The rest of the violence would be violence against men. But feminists of course don't care about that. Explain to her that people are flawed and when an act of violence is committed, sometimes the victim is female and sometime the victim is male. Sometime the perpetrator is male and sometimes the perpetrator is female. There is so much violence against women because people commit violent acts against each other and women are people. I don't condone violence, but I don't think violence against women is a separate issue than violence against people in general. But I don't know why you need feminism because you don't know the answer to a question. Just look it up or send your cousin to someone smarter than you.

I need feminism because too much of history was written by white, bourgeois, heterosexual, cisgender men...like me....!

Clearly, you don't know this already, but feminism cannot change what happened in history or who took the initiative to write it down or make it happen. Feminism says they are all about equality but for some reason it's not cool to be heterosexual, cisgender, or a male because that's too...demeaning to women? Look, no one stopped women from participating in history but if a man did something important to history, I don't want to be lied to. I don't care what the gender of the historical figure is, I care what they did. Anti-feminists didn't stop women from doing anything and neither did men. There are hundreds of great women in history. Rosa Parks, Joan of Arc, Queen Elizabeth I, Anne Frank, Pocahontas, Sacagawea, Abigail Adams, Queen Victoria, Cleopatra, Florence Nightingale, Clara Barton, Elisabeth Elliot, Marie Curie, Helen Keller, Eleanor Roosevelt, Amelia Earhart, Mother Teresa, Harriet Tubman and Marie Antoinette to name a few. Don't say you need feminism because you're uneducated.

I need feminism because my vagina has a voice.

Gross. No it doesn't.

I need feminism because never having experienced street harassment shouldn't make feel unattractive. 

You're right, it shouldn't. But, once again, this is not a social issue, this is a personal issue. The problem is not that feminism isn't accepted by everyone; the problem is you have low self esteem and feminism won't change that! You have to change that. I mean, if that's why you need feminism, I think you will be very disappointed in feminism because it can't do a thing for your self esteem. And if that's your reason then I guess it's just as acceptable for me to say I don't need feminism because never having experienced street harassment doesn't make me feel unattractive at all. See how it's a personal thing and not a social issue?

I need feminism because my university is named after a man.

Wow.....you need feminism because you chose to attend a school named after a man? What exactly do you expect feminism to do here? Change the name of the school? Pick out a different one for you? My suggestion is if you are unhappy with the name of your school either go to a different one or get over it. There are plenty of schools named after women if you prefer to go to one of those.

I need feminism because my period does not invalidate my opinion!

Well, let's think about that. If you are one of the many women whose period dramatically effects your mood and makes you sensitive and emotional and influences decisions you make, then I would say in some instances it does invalidate your opinion. If you are on your period, you are less likely to be rational and you have to take that into consideration. Feminism can't help you here. Your menstruation cycle won't change no matter what feminism says. It's not because you're a woman or have a period, it's because during the cycle, women can become moody and irrational.

I need feminism because some of my friends will laugh at me for doing this.

That's because this is silly and ridiculous. You are expecting feminism to fundamentally change human behavior and nature which it can't and won't do. You're wasting time with something stupid and it's laughable. Anyone who does this deserves to be laughed at. And feminism won't stop your friends from laughing at you. Feminism doesn't do anything. At all.


There are more of these out there and I haven't seen one that isn't ridiculous. In fact, some of them are so dumb don't be surprised if I make a part 2 to this post. Anyway, if you look, none of these cutsey signs (see what I did there?) have anything do to with the definition of feminism. They all just want feminism to make themselves feel better about being weak and stupid. But all these things are exactly why we don't need feminism! Feminism is what is fooling these people into thinking any of these things are actual problems. Feminism is what is telling people they are oppressed but it's just not true. If people would use their brains this wouldn't be happening.

Modern feminism is a joke and these people are the punch line.

Retail Rant

If you've ever worked in retail, or currently work in retail, you know why it's awful. If you have never had the experience of working in retail, you almost certainly have been a customer at a retail business. Working retail is not a glamorous job. The hours suck, the pay sucks and the customers suck. Now, I know every customer isn't an annoying jerk. Some are very pleasant people who treat you like a human being rather than their servant. Those who acknowledge that they are equal with you and not above you are wonderful and I genuinely enjoy helping them and doing everything I can to make their experience with the business a pleasant one. Thank you for being a good customer.

But, unfortunately, there are as many nasty customers as there are pleasant ones, sometimes even more. And if you don't know if you're one of the customers retail workers hate, you're about to find out. And, really, it shouldn't be news to you. If you are the kind of person who will throw a temper tantrum and yell at a cashier to get whatever you want, we all hate you. We do not value your business. People treat retail workers this way more often than should be acceptable. Pay attention and you will see it happening. As a retail worker, I can say it happens all the time.

I have always hated the phrase "the customer is always right". It's complete crap. The customer is NOT always right. In fact, the customer is almost always wrong. What this phrase does is say the customer can verbally abuse an employee and throw a fit/temper tantrum to get whatever they want. Even if it's against store policy, even if it's going to make a cashier's drawer short at the end of the day. People scream and verbally abuse cashiers to get discounts, or something for free and it sucks that those of you who do that get more free stuff than the kind, considerate people who actually deserve it. Anyone who will actually stoop so low as to verbally abuse someone to get a few dollars off of something is a piece of trash.

In this post, I will attempt to instruct you on how to properly treat retail workers, who, believe it or not, are actually human beings. I wouldn't be doing this at all of if there weren't so many of you who treat retail workers like they are beneath you. I will also talk about how not to be an incredibly inconvenient customer. So, pay attention. Some of you might learn something.


1. Paying with a $100 bill
Sometimes, this is acceptable. Other times, it is incredibly inconvenient for the cashier. Please try and remember that the cash register is not an endless money box. If you are going to insist on paying with such a large bill, it would be considerate of you to make sure the cashier can break it first. This is especially true if your total is $20 or less. Like, why are you even paying with such a huge bill for such a small amount? You are not the only person paying with that bill and it's ridiculous to make a cashier pull out $97 in change for a $3 purchase. Please try to remember you are not the only customer. You don't have to pay with such a huge bill. Before you go to the store where you are only going to buy one thing, stop at a bank and get change for crying out loud. I have so many people pay with large bills for small purchases and it is so incredibly annoying. And some people are so rude about it. I once had  a man buy something that totaled to $20 and payed with $100. Now, my manager had just come to my register and done a cash pick up, and the person before him had paid with $100, so I was relatively low on cash needed to make large amounts in change. I tried to make the $80 with the fewest bills I could, but it would have taken basically all the large bills I had left and you don't want to be stuck at a register with not even a ten or twenty for change. I politely asked him if he, by any chance, had a smaller bill and he said no. So I just gave him all the bills I could without leaving my drawer relatively empty so I had to throw a couple of fives and like five ones in there as he complained about how "ridiculous" it was that I "didn't even have $80 in the cash register" and then, after I gave him his change, whining to the customers behind him because he didn't like the bills used for his change. First, he whines because I "don't have $80" and then he whines because he didn't like the bills I had available at the time he paid with a large amount. But I had just given my manager most of the money from my drawer, as I'm supposed to, the customer right after that got a small total and paid with $100 so making large amounts in change with just 20's wasn't possible at the time. So maybe next time you have a total of $30 or less and you decide to give the cashier one hundred dollars, don't throw a temper tantrum because you get back more bills than you like. We have what we have. You don't know what's happened before you, so if you're not going to make sure they can break it, don't make a scene because they had to give you a few smaller bills to make the change. It's not worth it. Like, why? Whining doesn't put more money in the drawer, it just makes you a jerk.

2. Tapping/Snapping for attention
I should not have to tell you that this is rude. Retail workers are not dogs, they are not servants. They are people. You don't snap at people for their attention. Retail employees assist you, they don't answer to you. I can't even begin to describe how annoying this is. I work inside a small booth that is surrounded on three sides by glass windows. Sometimes, I have to do something that is not within a customer's line of vision. If a customer walks up and immediately doesn't see me, they are knocking on the window. Sometimes they knock on the window if my head is turned in the other direction. If I am right in front of them but writing something down, they knock on the window. Sometimes they knock on the window as they are walking up before they even get to the front. There is literally no reason on earth for this. For gosh sakes have a little patience. It has gotten to the point where if people start knocking on the glass for my attention, I intentionally take a few extra seconds with whatever I am doing. You can wait. We know you're there. We will help you. But sometimes, if we are in the middle of something, you might have to wait two or three seconds. Get over it. Believe it or not, helping you is not the only job I have. If you approach and don't immediately see someone, chances are we're not hiding from you. We are actually busy with something/someone else at the moment. Don't knock windows, whistle, or snap your fingers for an employees attention. Just don't.

3. Being on the phone
It's amazingly ridiculous that after all this time, people still don't understand proper phone etiquette. So, here is a lesson from a minimum wage retail employee to you: don't walk up to the register on your phone. Don't make a busy cashier stand and there and wait for you to be paying attention so they can check you out. It's very rude to be on the phone when someone is trying to help you. If you walk up to my register and expect me to do things for you while you are babbling along on your phone and not paying attention to me, I am going to talk to you as if you aren't on the phone. I'm going pretend the phone isn't there and if you miss hearing something, or don't understand after the transaction is through, don't whine at me. I informed you of everything. You just weren't paying attention because you were on your phone. Here's an idea: if you aren't done on the phone, don't walk up to the register!  Or if you insist on walking up to the register before you're done on the phone, have the person on the phone wait, or call them back for crying out loud. It's not rocket science, people! It's common courtesy. Well, it should be common.


4. Complaining to a cashier about prices
Did you know that the employees of a retail business have zero say in the pricing of products? Some of you act like everyone who works at a business, cashiers and everyone else, sits in a back room and votes on the prices of individual items. That doesn't happen. What happens is we ring up the items you buy. We don't make the prices and we can't change them for you. If you think it's too expensive, don't tell a cashier, just don't buy the stupid thing. Telling a cashier does absolutely nothing! We don't go up to the manager at the end of the day and report to them what items you feel are too much money. We just clock out and go home glad to finally get away from you. Complaining to a cashier about it does as much good as complaining to your mailman about it. We may work there, but we don't own it. We just ring up your groceries. We have nothing to do with the prices. And just know, even if you think it's too expensive, plenty of other people are still buying it without complaining so if you think it's too expensive, we really don't care. At all. If it's too much for you, don't complain. We're not going to change the price just because you don't want to spend that much. Just go somewhere else.

5. It wouldn't hurt you to listen 
While retail workers can't just give you anything you want as if you are some superior human being (which, if you haven't gotten it yet, you're not), we do have some information we can share with you. If you are going to complain to a cashier listen to the answer! I cannot stress this enough. Too many times those of you who are whiny entitled jerks complain to a cashier about something you don't like.  Then, when we try to explain what happened, or tell you what you need to do to fix it, or (as is usually the case) explain why we did nothing wrong and it's your mistake (politely, of course), you complain over our response so that we have to try and get you to understand five or six times! You never let us finishing telling you what the solution is! What is up with that? It's become really obvious that you don't want a solution, you just want to yell at someone because you messed up and now want everything for free. We have policies, we have procedures, I can't just hand you free stuff. That's not how shopping works. If you make a mistake, we can usually fix it, but you have to let us talk! It may not be the solution you want, but that's not my problem, it's yours. It's not my policy, it's the stores policy. I can't change it for you. So instead of whining about it, put on your grown up pants and deal with it like an adult. Keep in mind that the louder you scream the less I care about your problem and the less likely I am to help you or do anything for you. You can scream until your throat is sore but I won't bend over backwards for a jerk like you.

6. Being nasty to an employee
This sort of goes hand in hand with the above section, but I'm going to add more here because those of you who do this need to get it through your thick skulls. It's like when you walk into a store or business, you think you've suddenly become some kind of god we all must worship. But that is not the case. The case is you are in a store with other people who are equal with you and you are not more important than anyone else in the store, even the employees. Employees are supposed to be nice and polite no matter how much of a pig you are, but we are not required to take abuse or to give you whatever you demand. We may be smiling and apologizing throughout your temper tantrum, but what we are really thinking about you is much less friendly. Inside, we are flipping you off, calling you every vulgar word that you are emanating and hating you with a passion. We are pleased and cry hallelujah when you say you are never coming back. If you throw a temper tantrum, you don't know what you're not getting. If you are nasty to me because you screwed up and I can't fix it, then I am actually withholding information from you and you will never know. There may some options you have if you really need what you are yelling about, but because you are yelling and not listening, you will never know. I will apologize for your screw up and pretend that I care but if there's something that could be done about it, I'm not telling you. I'm not sharing any alternatives with you. You can stand there and yell at me but just know I am less likely to give you any helpful information if you do that and you will leave as much of an idiot as ever and thank god if I never see you again. You never know what we are not telling you or what we are thinking about you because of your vile behavior. We may be smiling and apologetic, but when you are gone you just get called a bunch of names and become a joke with all the employees.

7. Being the ungrateful regular
There's one (or several) at every business. The person who comes in all the time and always gets the same thing. 99% of the time things go smoothly and they don't even say thank you. Then, every once in a while something goes wrong and they waste no time in immediately complaining and calling you incompetent. Yeah, we hate you. And, usually, customer, if something goes wrong, it's not our fault. Sometimes a machine isn't working and I'm sorry you don't like that but that happens sometimes. Get over it. And sometimes you screw up and then yell at us because you are unhappy that you made a mistake. And somehow that makes it my fault. Do you understand that no one who works at the business likes you and we all cringe when you come in? We do. And it's your fault.

8. Threatening to never return
Tons of you do this and none of you understand so let me clear it up: as a minimum wage hourly employee who has to work wether you show up or not, we do not care if you never come back. We won't even notice if you never walk in the door in again. If you are whining and complaining, we are praying you never come back. We don't want you there. No one wants to help you. Everyone wants you gone. Your "threat" isn't a threat at all but rather a blessing to each and every employee you imagine you have the right to verbally abuse. Half of you end up coming back anyway so this threat literally means nothing to us. My paycheck doesn't decrease if you don't come in the door. I am working for my paycheck not for you and it makes my day more pleasant if you don't come back. I'm not threatened by you never returning because it doesn't make one ounce of difference to my job. You think you're more important than you actually are and when you say you're never coming back it's such a relief to me because the trash is taking itself out.


These are some of the things that bother me the most about retail customers. There are hundreds of other things customers do that they really shouldn't, but if I mentioned them all this post would never end.

But my point here is to try and help people see that being a customer at a retail business doesn't mean you are superior to all the employees and can have whatever you want. Yes, it's our job to help you and try to make your experience an easy and pleasant one but you must understand that we are still people and yelling and screaming at them is rude and makes people not want to help you and you can be asked to leave. Businesses have policies and we have to follow them. You, as a customer, have to respect them. We will do everything we can for you as long as it's something our policy allows us to do. If you don't like that, don't be a customer.

Mark Ruffalo is an Idiot

“My response to the “I am not a feminist” internet phenomenon….

First of all, it’s clear you don’t know what feminism is. But I’m not going to explain it to you. You can google it. To quote an old friend, “I’m not the feminist babysitter.”

But here is what I think you should know.

You’re insulting every woman who was forcibly restrained in a jail cell with a feeding tube down her throat for your right to vote, less than 100 years ago.

You’re degrading every woman who has accessed a rape crisis center, which wouldn’t exist without the feminist movement.

You’re undermining every woman who fought to make marital rape a crime (it was legal until 1993).

You’re spitting on the legacy of every woman who fought for women to be allowed to own property (1848). For the abolition of slavery and the rise of the labor union. For the right to divorce. For women to be allowed to have access to birth control (Comstock laws). For middle and upper class women to be allowed to work outside the home (poor women have always worked outside the home). To make domestic violence a crime in the US (It is very much legal in many parts of the world). To make workplace sexual harassment a crime. 

In short, you know not what you speak of. You reap the rewards of these women’s sacrifices every day of your life. When you grin with your cutsey sign about how you’re not a feminist, you ignorantly spit on the sacred struggle of the past 200 years. You bite the hand that has fed you freedom, safety, and a voice.

In short, kiss my ass, you ignorant little jerks.”

Have you seen that before? If you have, you will probably know that this was written about a year ago and it may be old news to you, but, it's the internet. It's still out there and people are still reading it. If you haven't seen that before, it was written by Mark Ruffalo on his official tumblr. You can see it on his tumblr for yourself here.

The reason I am doing a post on it is because so many people have seen it and there are so many things wrong with it that I can't just sit here and let him write an extremely rude, ignorance filled post aimed at people who disagree with him, such as myself. This post may be a bit long, so let's get right into it.

First, if you're not sure what he is responding to, a few months before he posted this, there was something going around the internet where people were responding to the modern feminist movement by taking pictures of themselves holding signs explaining why they were not feminists and posting them on the internet, as seen in the following photos.

Here are a few examples to what Mr. Ruffalo was responding to, though there are plenty more out there if you are interested in looking. In his own words, he thinks all these women are "ignorant little jerks" because they don't agree with him. Strong, independent women who don't believe they are oppressed or weak are jerks, according to him. Not very pro modern feminism if you ask me. But that's just the beginning. 

Now to address the post itself.

“My response to the “I am not a feminist” internet phenomenon….

First of all, it’s clear you don’t know what feminism is. But I’m not going to explain it to you. You can google it. To quote an old friend, “I’m not the feminist babysitter.”

This is the first thing he wrote and he's already lost my respect and shown he's just a typical liberal feminist. The first thing they do when someone disagrees with them is say we have no idea what we're talking about and refuse to explain it to us. I've had several of these people tell me I don't know what a word means, don't understand what something is because my opinion is different from theirs, don't know what feminism, racism, sexism, etc is but have yet to have one single person give me a definition. 

They are quick to say we don't know what something is, but refuse to define anything so we can make sure we are on the same page. They prefer to just call names and say we are stupid. But, you know, when someone tells me I don't know what something is just because I don't share their viewpoint and then refuse to explain what they think I'm ignorant of, my first thought is they themselves don't know what it means. If I am in a discussion with someone and want to validate my position, if you don't seem to know what the issue even is, the first thing I am going to do is explain it to you so we can have a rational discussion and both know exactly what we are talking about. I will not say you clearly don't know what the basic foundation of this discussion is and I'm not going to tell you but here's my opinion on it. 

Elementary mistake here. He won't define his terms (which you should always do when speaking on a topic this broad), but he'll rant on about how stupid we are for disagreeing with him when he hasn't even explained what it is I'm supposed to disagree with! He didn't define what he meant by feminism so how does he know we disagree with it? This makes me think Mr. Ruffalo doesn't know what feminism is because he won't (can't?) explain it. 

So, google it. Great advice. Google is the ultimate authority on things like this because whatever results you get from google are automatically correct. If you don't know what feminism is, google it, because that will clear everything up. That's obviously what Mark Ruffalo did before writing this stupid rant. And I'm not "the liberal babysitter" but I'm going to define my terms anyway because that's what we do in a rational discussion/debate. 

That being the case, since Mark uses google to as his resource, I will use it to look up feminism as he suggested so that we all know what we're talking about. Since he suggested we google it, I'm assuming he is basing his rant off of the definition provided by google which is:

Feminism: the advocacy of women's rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men.

Now that we all know what feminism is, let's move on. 

But here is what I think you should know.

You’re insulting every woman who was forcibly restrained in a jail cell with a feeding tube down her throat for your right to vote, less than 100 years ago.

You’re degrading every woman who has accessed a rape crisis center, which wouldn’t exist without the feminist movement.

You’re undermining every woman who fought to make marital rape a crime (it was legal until 1993).

You’re spitting on the legacy of every woman who fought for women to be allowed to own property (1848). For the abolition of slavery and the rise of the labor union. For the right to divorce. For women to be allowed to have access to birth control (Comstock laws). For middle and upper class women to be allowed to work outside the home (poor women have always worked outside the home). To make domestic violence a crime in the US (It is very much legal in many parts of the world). To make workplace sexual harassment a crime. 

In short, you know not what you speak of. You reap the rewards of these women’s sacrifices every day of your life. When you grin with your cutsey sign about how you’re not a feminist, you ignorantly spit on the sacred struggle of the past 200 years. You bite the hand that has fed you freedom, safety, and a voice.

Wow, just wow. It's now obvious that Mark Ruffalo doesn't know what feminism is. And he is loudly showing off his ignorance on the matter. I don't see how of the signs the women made saying why they didn't need feminism showed how they were for or against any of these things. 

He is saying because I don't believe being cat called is oppression and leads to rape, that I don't want women to have access to birth control and that I don't want domestic violence to be a crime. Because I don't believe we live in a rape culture I am against voting rights for women and I'm not against marital rape. Because I don't appreciate modern day feminism, I support work place harassment. 

That is quite the attack. He is making a lot of serious accusations towards a lot of people, including many women. And he is not even talking about what the movement has become, he's talking about what it was when there were real inequality problems such as women not having the right to vote. But that's not what feminism is today. Feminism today is so petty and the problems aren't real. They blow things out of proportion all the time. A woman can be CEO today or President. How is there a war on women? How are they oppressed? Women today just want to be able to walk down the street naked and pretend it's going to stop rape. And that's what feminism today. It seems to me that Mark has this all backwards. In my opinion, to be a modern day feminist and whine because you of the questions you get asked in interviews or female movie stars who make millions of dollars a year saying it's not enough because men make more is an insult to the feminists who came before you. It's an insult to the women who fought for your right to vote and to work outside the home. What they fought for was equal rights, what you're fighting for is entitlement. 

As we saw in the definition, feminism is about equality of men and women, not the empowerment of women. And all feminists do nowadays is talk about bad things are for women and you never hear them say anything about the problems men face. Men get raped. Men face sexism. But all feminists care about is how things are for women. And that's why I'm not a feminist. I want equality for both sexes, not entitlement for one. And that doesn't mean I don't think women should vote and I don't appreciate rape crisis centers or support domestic violence as the ignorant Mark Ruffalo would have you believe. 

Then, once again, he tells us that we don't know what we're talking about and tries to minimize a whole belief by referring to the pictures as "cutsey signs". You know, there are hundreds of people out there who held "cutsey signs" saying why they needed feminism and posted a picture on the internet but Mr. Ruffalo didn't say anything about them. Apparently, if the signs are pro feminist, they are a good way to spread the word and help women everywhere, but if they are anti-feminist, they are "cutsey".

Mark goes on to say because we don't agree with the liberal idea of feminism that we are spitting in the face of the feminist movement of hundreds of years ago that brought equal rights to women which is complete crap. Just because I disagree with you, doesn't mean I don't know what I'm talking about or that I support violence against women. In fact, it is because I know what feminism is that I disagree with you. Not the other way around. 

                             In short, kiss my ass, you ignorant little jerks.

Ah, there it is. It just wouldn't be a good ignorant liberal argument without the name calling thrown in there somewhere. Good thing he got it in there at the end, though. But, yeah, anyone who dare disagree with him (when he won't even tell us what he's talking about) is an "ignorant little jerk." Well, Mr. Ruffalo, I say you are an ignorant enormous jerk. And I am not saying that because I disagree with you on feminism. I am saying that because of the rude, demeaning, unresearched, idiotic, accusatory way you presented your pathetically weak argument. You intentionally insulted thousands of men and women because they don't agree with your idea of feminism. You just told all of us that because our opinion is different from yours we are insulting, undermining, degrading and spitting on the movement that helped violence against women, that gave us voting rights and jobs. You have told us that because we don't agree with you, we are okay with rape. 

It is you, Mark, who is the one who is being insulting, undermining and degrading. You are the ignorant one in this scenario. I don't mind being called a jerk by someone whose opinion of me I couldn't care less about - Mark Ruffalo is not important to me in the slightest. But I do mind you saying that everyone who disagrees with you is undermining rape, sexual assault, marital rape, voting rights, and access to birth control just because we want men and women to be equal and don't think cat calling warrants a public protest.