Problem is, some real feminist beliefs are wilder than anything I could ever make up.

Case in point: Here is an honest to goodness, genuine, real feminist conspiracy theory about ... diapers! A feminist looked into the practice of selling different diapers for boys and girls, and she found a conspiracy. (Of course, if you look into diapers, you know what you're likely to find.)

Anyway, here is this genuine, real feminist conspiracy, presented without further ado-do.[One feminist wrote:]

>>Recently, being about to face the prospect in a few months of having to 
>>buy diapers, I went out to see where the diaper industry had gotten with 
>>this issue.  Now, they offer diapers which work "for either boys or 
>>girls", as though they are offering some new technological innovation!  I 
>>sometimes have cynical moments when I wonder if the whole thing was just 
>>a marketing ploy [...][Another feminist replied:]
>Your cynicism is 100% on the mark.  [...] I honestly think the boy/girl 
>diapers was both a conscious sexist attempt to perpetuate stereotpyes in 
>the designs on the diapers, *and* a desire to increase shelf space alloted 
>to a diaper comapany.  The introduction of the "works for boys and girls" 
>diapers were just greed, though, not any social engineering.  More shelf 
>space. >Don't call me paranoid; I've read way too much social psychology to
>not know what I'm talking about.  Feminism is a movement to change the
>way people think, and to think that those currently in power (and
>mostly male) would not fight back with known methods of shaping
>culture is foolish. [...] No, it isn't cycnicism, it is realism, and an 
>awareness that feminism is a cultural thing -- and to succeed we *need* to 
>change the culture. To expect that those in power would fight it is not 
>paranoia, it is a challenge! :-)

There you have it, folks. Diapers are a patriarchal conspiracy. As for me, I say we should salute those dedicated diaper executives. They have gone above and beyond the call of doody.