Cult mentality/Group think.
Feminism controls every aspect of its followers' lives, their identity, the way that they dress, the careers that they should and should not pursue, the way that they worship, the way that they form relationships, they way that they should behave with the opposite sex, the way that they should treat their children, the way that they should have sexual intercourse, etc etc. Feminism controls every aspect of its followers' lives. Anyone that does not toe the line within the movement is abused, marginalised and ostracised. This is why they all look, walk and talk the exact same. Every feminist that I have ever come across and I have made it my business to mix with them as much as I possibly can has been the exact copy of every other feminist. Feminism robs its followers of their distinct identity.
One easily observable way in which feminism exercises control on its followers is the bowl haircut. It encourages its followers to adopt these haircuts for two reasons both of which focus on denying the follower distinction from other feminists and discouraging them from critical thinking. These two reasons are outlined below:
1. To minimise sex distinction and appear androgynousOne of the fundamental principles on which feminism is based is the idea that gender is a social construct i.e. there is no such thing as man or woman. Feminism teaches its followers that we are all born androgynous (without sex) and that we all undergo socialisation by what they call the patriarchy. This socialisation, they claim, turns us into men and women, two social constructs, one destined to command the other to obey.
“You are not born a woman; you become one… No feminist questions the statement that women are manufactured by civilisation, not biologically determined.” Simone De Beauvoir, All Said and Done, 1972.
One of the principle aims of the feminist revolution is to turn society into an androgynous one where people abandon any practices that lead to distinctions between the sexes.
“the development of cooperative human community based on the free-flow of natural androgynous eroticism” Andrea Dworkin, Woman Hating, Androgyny, 1974.
To minimise gender distinction, women are encouraged to become more male in their appearance and men are encouraged to become more female in their appearance. Women are encouraged to dress in clothing lacking colour, avoid putting on makeup and have bowl or bald haircuts to appear less female and more male and men are encouraged to become less masculine in their traits.
“If you must wear dresses… they should be plain in style and colour… Bright colours and delightful materials are wonderful to have around, but do you really want to decorate your BODY with them? On your body they cry out, "Look at me…I'm female." No More Fun and Games - A Journal of Female Liberation, Editorial, 1970.
https://medium.com/s/pop-feminism/the-future-is-androgynous-but-wtf-does-that-even-mean-60a3edab8ba8 https://thehardtimes.net/blog/how-a-diy-asymmetrical-haircut-eliminate-my-white-privilege/ https://www.byrdie.com/ruby-rose-interview-androgynous Pictures of Feminist icons adopting the androgynous haircuts/looks:
Marlyn Frye
Shiela Jeffreys:
Charlotte Bunch:
Daphne Patai:
Jill Johnston:
2. Dress code, cult mentalityCult like ideologies often impose a dress code on their members. This allows cults control over the most intimate aspect of a person’s life, their identity. A dress code, other than allowing power and control over members, also serves two further functions for cults/ideologies. The first function is to lure people into the group. People sporting unconventional appearances and attire attract attention. This attention acts as a form of advertisement for the cult/ideology. The second function of dress codes is to encourage Group Think, a practice which pressures members of a cult/ideology to accept authority and toe the line adopted by the rest of the group. Group Think discourages critical thinking, individuality and creativity.
The Heaven’s Gate, doomsday cult that committed mass suicide in 1997, imposed a similar, androgynous dress code and haircuts on its members to that of feminism: