Can the men's movement be pro-feminist? (From 1999, oldie but goody. From Australia.)

kanuk876 · 2008-07-08T09:56:28+00:00

FTA:

Claims by men's rights groups that they just want equality echo One Nation's false claim that it just wants equality for whites and is “anti-racist”.

Ouch.

The author is certainly revealing their bias with the above comment.

However, many men resented the [gains feminism brought women].

Ouch again. I don't.

Many men celebrate the gains feminism brought women.

While it is true that the traditional gender roles of class society distort the development and human potential of both men and women, these gender roles are a result of the oppression of women and the need of the capitalist system to retain the family unit.

Divert any legitimate men's issue away from gender...

To the extent that men's mental and physical health is stunted and impaired, this is mostly a result of the fact that masculinity, in a class-divided society, is based on the oppression of women by men.

So, men are dieing 7 years earlier than women, and we devote more funding to medical research for women versus men, because masculinity is based on the oppression of women by men.

... that... makes no sense.

How about it's because we value women's lives and health more than that of the disposable sex, er, I mean men. This makes a lot more sense.

Some, such as Pease and Flood, are no longer confident that the movement can be a force for progressive change.

Wow, good thing nobody told Glenn Sacks and pn6.

“In fact there is a whites' movement, a network of white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups

Oh.My.Spaghetti.Monster. I have to stop.

This article starts out as a critique of the 1999 men's movement from a feminist theoretic perspective, but by the end it just sounds like a hit piece.

2008-07-08T13:47:31+00:00

It's hard to comment on this piece. As Kanuk said, it's a 9 year old response to another article that was also 9 years old. Thus the trends that the article discusses are only relevant in hindsight.

Title	Can the men's movement be pro-feminist? (From 1999, oldie but goody. From Australia.)
Author	elissa1959
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Comments	2
Date	July 8, 2008 6:32 AM UTC (18 years ago)
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