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-4	"Men's forcefully drafting was done by men so we (women) aren't at fault" Do you think the existence of a small minority of feminists with fringe opinions means feminism in general loves to see men get sent to war? And that women have always enjoyed the same political equality and privilege as men? That women have never been discriminated against based on their gender? Because that's what folks are writing to me in this post. They're asserting women have historically afflicted their own oppression on themselves equally. We can be realistic about the harmful, outdated …	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	28/05/24 06:48 PM
0	"Men's forcefully drafting was done by men so we (women) aren't at fault" 1856: The right to vote was extended to all white men. \| Business Insider India In 1856, North Carolina became the last state to remove property ownership as a requirement for voting, meaning all white men could vote by this time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_voting_rights_in_the_United_States The 1828 presidential election was the first in which non-property-holding white males could vote in the vast majority of states. By the end of the 1820s, attitudes and state laws had shifted …	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	28/05/24 04:52 PM
-17	"Men's forcefully drafting was done by men so we (women) aren't at fault" No one is saying current men are at fault for the draft. The draft is brought up as an example of the patriarchy unfairly harming men. As a feminist and male advocate, I can readily and easily acknowledge that the draft unfairly harms men. That being said, the fault shouldn't be equally distributed between modern day men and women. The fault lies with powerful men in the past and the patriarchal culture that enabled them. You might rightly claim the responsibility to change modern society is equ…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	28/05/24 01:09 AM
-6	"Men's forcefully drafting was done by men so we (women) aren't at fault" Yea, you can't even acknowledge women were ever discriminated against. You want to deny that laws existed that prevented women from having equal rights, and then call me uneducated on feminism. I skimmed the rest of your post and I'm not going to engage with it. Married Women’s Property Acts, in U.S. law, series of statutes that gradually, beginning in 1839, expanded the rights of married women to act as independent agents in legal contexts. The English common law concept of coverture, the legal…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	27/05/24 11:11 PM
-1	"Men's forcefully drafting was done by men so we (women) aren't at fault" If physical power so neatly translates to personal power, then throughout history manual laborers would have risen into positions of power. The opposite is the case. African Americans, who spent all day in the scorching heat providing for others and are the physically strongest on average, ought to be the most powerful Americans of all. So no, it's not a biological fact that men have more social power than women due to their physical strength. That's a sexist stereotype that claims to be based o…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	27/05/24 11:01 PM
-3	"Men's forcefully drafting was done by men so we (women) aren't at fault" Only men waged wars because at the time, the people who happened to be in power were men. Even if you're arguing that the only reason men wage war more than women is because men "happen to be" in power more than women in this universe, you're still failing to explain why we live in such a universe where men "happen to be" in power. You can be a male advocate and acknowledge the damaging effects of our historically patriarchal society without pointing fingers at women or individual men. Why can't…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	27/05/24 10:52 PM
-8	"Men's forcefully drafting was done by men so we (women) aren't at fault" Family dynamics aren't based on biology. They vary culturally. I'd assert modern-day family dynamics originate from the Bible - that incredibly sexist book written by a small group of men about an all-powerful male God. You're saying women aren't fighting for equal rights because they're not volunteering for the draft? Or is it because they're more focused on other issues? Plenty of women oppose the draft and would gladly tell you that. Never heard a woman say only men should be drafted and the …	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	27/05/24 10:27 PM
-19	"Men's forcefully drafting was done by men so we (women) aren't at fault" I don't think men "just happened" to be in power for the last several decades or hundreds of years. I don't think laws "just happened" to exist where women couldn't vote or own property. I would be interested in any sincere explanation about how such power imbalances "just happen to be" for centuries. I agree though, we shouldn't fault individual men or women/feminists for the draft. We ought to continue challenging the historical patriarchal influence that continues to shape the society we live…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	27/05/24 10:15 PM
-6	"Men's forcefully drafting was done by men so we (women) aren't at fault" It just so happens that the majority of powerful people happened to be men at that time. Just so happens? Why do you suppose that is? Random coincidence?	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	27/05/24 09:54 PM
-22	"Men's forcefully drafting was done by men so we (women) aren't at fault" The only reason women weren't enlisted in the draft is because women were seen as "useless" in the military. Wilson instituted the draft three years before women even had the right to vote. What needs to be highlighted is how misogynistic society was being. Why are we trying to claim women are at fault for the draft now? Why is it so hard to understand that a small group of powerful men did a thing that harmed other men? President Woodrow Wilson is credited with instituting the modern draft syst…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	27/05/24 09:20 PM