1) I don't care about the past, I care about now. Now is all that matters to the lives of people that live now.Yukaphile wrote: ↑Tue Jan 29, 2019 9:23 am @clearspira Oh have you seen how women were treated in the decades leading up to the second wave? It's atrocious. You haven't heard the horror stories my mom had as a little girl in the 1950s. Trust me, it was widespread and common, and everybody knew it, but they couldn't stop it, because the institutions were apathetic, to say the least - like with Patrick Stewart's poor mother. That changed when people began screaming about it loudly enough that they had to pass laws that would bring new reforms. But why the hell do you think "the world" doesn't care about men? I repeat, men have never needed to be empowered like women have, because refer to your history, domestic abuse against women was off the charts among the lower classes decades ago, and men still held jobs determined by their gender, and then scoffed that women had lightly "housely" work, and we still, to a degree, rule the world. The majority of leaders worldwide right now ARE male. The majority of Congress is white men. It's also interesting you focus on suicide rates, because statistically speaking, women attempt it more. Gee, it's almost as if, by your logic, they suffer just as much as men, eh? Maybe we're all broken by the world and just want it to END regardless of gender. And what do you mean, reproductive rights? Reproductive rights is the domain of women, because they can get pregnant, unless you mean sexual assault, which is something no one deserves. I'm also against domestic violence, though hearing those in the religious right bitch that female breadwinners are "unnatural" doesn't serve to convince me that there isn't going to be some kind of push-back to try and shove women into the kitchen again. Those men talking that way are clearly resentful. But WHY? I wouldn't care if my wife made more. On the same token, if by pure accident, I did, there's no shame in that. You seem to think it's about actual oppression, and it isn't. It's about perception, and those can subtly influence us in ways we don't understand, given our own internal biases.
Then why are the rape statistics 200,000 per year? Which is it that of those affected, only 9% affect men? Or was it 4%? I forgot what the number was, but that's still low compared to how many women suffer the discrimination in terms of sexual assault. And that's largely due in part because of gender roles, our perceptions of gender, which are heteronormative and very exclusionary to the LGBT community, and other identities past male and female, and how those are subtly enforced among communities by parents and our role models. You probably think the number of men who don't report their rapes is higher, and yeah, statistics say that's likely, but so what? The same holds true for women. So anything higher than 200,000 per year is theoretical. And that's factoring in the "half that don't get reported," which could be wrong. Don't give me that bullshit about how the world doesn't care about men. Men have had the most dangerous jobs, been the ones shaping the world for centuries, even though women are more than capable, and it's only now we're letting women into the same jobs. Why else do you think we've never had a female President? Because that's A MAN'S JOB. People see it as a man's destiny to forge policy and influence other countries. It's the same problem men and women have always had. Always underestimating what women are capable of. And I won't stand for it.
2) The reason why more men rape than women do is because men have dicks. It is 1000% easier for a man to rape a woman than it is for women to rape men. Is biology sexist?
3) Reproductive rights. Right now, if a woman decides to stick a needle in your condom i.e. fucking rapes you, you STILL have to pay maintanence on that child for eighteen years if she decides to keep it. Why can't he opt out? Because you have no rights over children as a man.
4) All you have proven with this essay is that women suffer too. Which is something I never disagreed with. My argument is that women are not oppressed in the West. But what do I know with my higher suicide rate, lower education standards, lower funding for male cancers, higher likelihood of being imprisoned for the same crime than women do... nah, men have it great
