Like everyone else who wastes their time reading too much of the drivel on the internet, the so-called anti-feminists got on my goat and took it out for a run this week.

These idiotic women have not the slightest idea of what they are banging on about. They keep squawking about how men are physiologically different from women (REALLY? Gosh, well, blow me down with a feather), how women are infringing on men’s roles as providers and protectors (all together now: awwwww)and that we should all stay home and assume our rightful place in the kitchen and/or bedroom and let the poor men get on with things (*falls down laughing*).

Now just pardon me a moment while I remove my apron and stop baking something while I check my hair and put my partner’s slippers out……. *ahem* Okay, I’m back.

The whole idea of feminism is that women get to choose what they want to do with their own life. By all means, stay home and look after your husband, bake stuff and discuss the pros and cons of soft furnishings, but do NOT savage women who have chosen to do otherwise – and vice versa.

When Catherine Deveny shot her mouth off in The Age a couple of years ago, savaging women who got married and changed their surnames, she had (as usual) missed the entire point. Feminism has helped give us options. If you choose a different option to me, it doesn’t matter – the point is that we have the options in the first place. Don’t attack another woman because she chose differently to you – applaud her for her ability to choose what suits her, especially if it differs wildly from yours.

Now, I have to be honest and say I don’t particularly care for baking or housework, and I am profoundly craft-challenged, but I know some people who excel in all those areas and love it dearly. God bless ‘em, I say; they help the world go round and where would I get cupcakes without them?

My choices and contributions are different to those my friends (and enemies) make, as are yours…the point is that diversity, opportunity and determination count for an awful lot in this life, and if you’re going to piss on someone else’s choices, you’d better have a lofty and incredibly sturdy perch from which to do it because I know a lot of girls who can operate a chainsaw.

One last thing; I don’t particularly care if you agree with me or not on the feminism issue but do yourself a favour and sit through a season of “Mad Men” and see if the overt chauvinism churns your stomach. If not, perhaps you genuinely are anti-feminism and you actually believe that women should not think for themselves, have opinion, skills, strengths or independent feelings; perhaps you even believe that women should not be allowed to vote or own property under their own name or inherit anything.

However,if Mad Men’s reminder of how women used to be dismissed, ignored and feared by men makes your jaw drop, perhaps feminism has contributed more to your life than you thought.

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