Fall Into the [Reverse Gender] Gap

2011-12-22T15:05:14+00:00

My comment to that site:

This is why we should drop-kick the term “reverse gender gap.:

This reveals the gynocentricism of contemporary feminism. Gender gaps that disadvantage women are to be protested and fought against, while gender gaps that disadvantage men are to be dismissed and ignored. It is entirely in character for the OP to not only deprecate the importance of the educational and earnings gap of young men, but to want to abolish the very language used to describe that imbalance.

While the expression "reverse gender gap" is indeed "sexist in its very syntax", it is so because it enforces the hegemonic cultural narrative is that males are universally advantaged over females. Therefore, any "gender gap" is automatically presumed to be an instance of female disadvantage, and the term "reverse" must be added to highlight an exception to the assumed balance of power.

However, this narrative of universal female disadvantage is no longer true. There are many important ways that males are disadvantaged in contemporary society. Any honest evaluation of gender equality recognizes that gender gaps work both ways, and both must be addressed in a just society.

C0CKPUNCHER · 2011-12-22T15:05:22+00:00

I struggle to read pieces like this because they already come full of assumptions of how the reader has to rule the world and tell everyone what to do, how they know everything about everything, and how this handful of studies 'proves' that. That's before all the incorrect polemics on this and that.

Title	Fall Into the [Reverse Gender] Gap
Author	thetrollking
Upvotes	0
Comments	2
Date	December 22, 2011 2:13 PM UTC (14 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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