Remove the misandry and victim-mentality of feminism, and what is left?
If you take away the misandry and victim-mentality of feminism then - you take away the lie that feminism got women the vote (that was the suffragettes, a different movement to the feminists), - you take away the lie that feminism got women equal pay and job opportunities (that was the Women's Liberation Movement, which had some feminists in it but was distinct from the feminists), - you take away the lie that feminism enabled women to control childbirth (that was a technical innovation by a male, with funding from a single woman only), - you remove the "all men are rapists" kind of nonsense, - you remove the laws and practices that recognise only women as victims of domestic violence and rape, - you get rid of positive discrimination (now being re-branded as 'affirmative action') so that men have equal opportunities to stand for MP, for job placement and promotion, etc., - you make family courts fair and equal to give fathers as much chance of looking after their children and mothers, - you make criminal punishment of people equal regardless of gender, - you enable special facilities for men's college courses, entertainment and representation in the media and government, just as women enjoy, - you equalise health benefits and look to make all people live a long and productive life. - etc. etc. So you would end up with egalitarianism.
Have you ever been a victim ?
men are the only victims of femenist regulations ex; females could have an abortion devoid of telling their husbands,If a girl beat her husband,he gets arrested and put in reformatory,a guy has to pay infant help and his spouse is permitted to take his suitable to flow to him,mothers constantly get custody of the youngsters even however you notice extra females beating their little ones and you notice men doing it,females killers go loose on a similar time as men killers are placed to death. so there is your answer.
A man tried to mug me in Bristol city centre about thirteen years ago. Without thinking, I fought back and won. I chased him into a corner and called the police on my mobile. Though I wasn't able to restrain the would be mugger physically, I trapped him in a corner where one business came out further than another. It was about midnight on a Tuesday, so nearly everything was closed. When the police came, they arrested my attacker and I then spent until about 2.30am giving a statement to the police before they took me to A&E because the attacker had hit me over the head.When they interviewed the criminal, he confessed to several more serious crimes. With regard to the attack on me, the CPS felt that they couldn't prove intent to rob, so he was charged with and pleaded guilty to ABH. With other crimes added, he was sentenced to three years' imprisonment.
Have you.ever been a victim of sexism...?
i'm white and grew up incredibly midsection type, so feminism worked for me. I under no circumstances felt like lots of a sufferer to sexism. with reference to the closest I have been given grow to be the sexism in my former faith, which grow to be mild. I fell prey to a pair undesirable innovations, yet I have been given over them by adventure. purely because of the fact i don't sense like the sufferer does no longer propose i'm unaware of the victimization of others.
The most revolting misandry I have ever heard of... JUST as I predicted several months ago to your ridicule!?
I'll just start by saying that I predicted a similar turn of events in this case several months ago and all the feminists here were saying I was a paranoid woman hater who was 'inventing non existent hypocrisy'. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnew... How the HELL can anyone possibly justify this decision? The judge even acknowledged the double standard but did nothing about it? The part that really makes me sick is this quote: "f the incident involved a man who committed similar acts against an unwilling woman, that man would doubtless face prison time, Judge Poppy said. But in this case Davis and his 'bad behaviour' were partly to blame, he added. The victim 'started the ball rolling, philandering with others besides his wife, who was putting bread on the table and taking care of his children,' the judge said." So I take it in cases where the man is the breadwinner the same would apply, if a woman cheated on him and he responded by getting his friends to sexually assault her? They wouldn't be jailed? This makes me SICK.
It’s difficult to say whether this was a direct effect, but about 5 years ago now, the meme of Schrodinger’s Rapist stroked my OCD enough for me to get stuck into a ‘brain lock’ that I was indeed, a rapist or otherwise likely to cause harm to people. I began to explore feminist theory in sixth form-late high school-and considered myself a feminist briefly, though never as an activist. I had a very quick slippery slope from viewing myself as a ‘Nice Guy’ (i.e. insincere sexist) to an outright abuser and sexual predator…but also a socially awkward low status loser nerd. It was a double-bind; I had to act to become better-to climb the hierarchy-but in such a way that would not make me ethically worse. The anxiety of it paralysed me since most of my life decisions were based around pleasing people and fixing their issues.I was doing everything in my power to avoid people (particularly my female peers), which was the opposite of the advice given to me by my then psychologist in managing my social and (then pretty extreme,as in neurosis-level) anxiety disorder, of which a sub-set was gynophobia (yes fear of women.) Since that had failed to relieve the, by nature of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, unshakeable and persistent doubt that I was potentially capable of harming others, I was left with isolation, self-harming in various forms (physical, mental…don’t want to go into details) and at the worst of it, a half-assed suicide attempt.I won’t pretend that my mental health was the best at the time (understatement lol), that my social anxiety or general anxiety was limited to gynophobia (had family issues and disordered eating, panic attacks, ‘Soldier’s Heart Syndrome’ and more), or that this was the only intrusive thought. But it’s put me off radical feminist rhetoric for…life, likely.
Why would some women think Misandry isn't real?
Misandry is real, and it is even somewhat common amongst younger women, who are used to seeing things in terms of boys versus girls, because that is how kids are socialised. Butm there are a lot of wierd reactionary MRAs that see misandry in a lot of places where it isn't. For example, they figure that most women who work in sexual assault centers probably suffer from misandry because they are just trying to depict all men as rapists. That is a total load of hooey. You sort of have to watch out for anti-feminists over-using the term misandry, because they really are prone to doing that.
What causes misandry?
"What causes misandry?" Well, I can think of a couple factors which cause misandry: 1/ Reality: when there's misogyny [and it does exist], there MUST be an equal and opposite component in the society, much like Newtonian physics. Misogyny generates misandry, and vice-versa. 2/ History: We have as many male antagonists as there are male protagonists, if we sifted through the pages of history. Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, Slobodan Milosevic, Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden--the list is literally endless. This -can-cause misandry--a general discomfort, a distrust, or even hatred, towards the male gender. 3/ The NEWS: as in a reality as it exists today. Most people who are on the FBI most-wanted list are men. Most of the corporate CEOs and CFOs arrested recently from Enron to Bernie Madoff have been men. Most murderers are male but most males are not murderers, and some women are. 4/ Personal reasons: Some people might have been taken advantage of by males, so it's not completely inconceivable that they project and use mathematical induction principles to think of all men as users/abusers. 5/ Political demonization: There are groups with vested interest which portray men as the perps in just about ANY situation--those who promote the "men=perps/women=victims" dogma, which has also percolated down the pipes of policy making. The Duluth model of DV must be remembered here. 6/ "The War against the male gender": When Marc Lepine killed 14 women in a school shooting, the media, and ideologues with vested interests were quick to jump on the "men=bad/women=angels" band-wagon, while complete ignoring that that more men--almost double--were killed than women that exact year. 7/ Political treatment of the male-female gender-divide: By passing a law like "Violence against Women Act" in 1994, not only did the politicians further the stereotype that "men=bad/women=good", they also sent the strong message that misandry is understandable, even justifiable. There are other reasons, too, but Dr. Anthony Synnott, Ph.D's article [linked below] is a better eye-opener. Good question!