Then why don't we MRAs promulgate the concept of ourselves being the "left leg" of the body that is on the same journey? MRAs should not want to be superior to women in any way, but rather desire to be truly, legally, ethically equal in all things.
Child custody should be decided by which parent is best equipped to support a child emotionally, mentally and financially. There are objective ways to determine this that could be summed into a simple report for a courts deliberation.
We've all heard damning reports of wage inequality, yet when adjusted for only the most easily detectable reasons for that inequality, the wage gap is 9%. (http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/10/why-are-women-paid-less/263776/) That number, 9%, does not include the reasons why the woman is getting paid less at their job than their similarly capable male coworkers, which is still a somewhat viable bone for contention, true, but compared to the sixty cents to a dollar disparity of the 60's, this is an improvement.
I hope it goes without saying that no sensible human believes that another human being being paid the same amount of money for quantifiably and demonstrably the exact same work with the exact same previous experience and the exact same ability is anything less than an ideal situation for both.
Furthermore, the woman's rights movement have gone a long way in not only protecting women from rape, decreasing the number of female rape victims by 800,000 over a time period where the total population of America increased by over 100,000,000.
www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/violent-crime/forcible-rape
This is an improvement.
However, male victims of rape and sexual abuse have stayed at the same level throughout that time period and awareness of the issue is only barely beginning. Being the second leg of a movement towards true equality, MRA is working hard to balance those scales for the greater good.
Sorry for the ramble, but I think that we are fully capable of working with any feminist who can accept the concept that HUMAN EQUALITY should be their primary goal, no one above for any reason, no one below, and that, should either of our philosophies place us in an unattainable position for our opposites, then that philosophy is damaged and should be revised.
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