I was watching this leftist fellow I just found 1-2 days ago, and he said what's in the image,

"Feminism is also about men's rights it is true men's rights because we break down the gendered stereotypes and men can be free to express their feelings men can grow up and play with girls toys and wear girls clothes if they want to and wear makeup and wear uh you know high heels if they want or even Beyond just wearing and playing with things you know emotionally they'll be so much more fulfilled I've said this before men are hollow shells oftentimes of what humans are supposed to be"

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And, can at least us acknowledge both how utterly contrary to the Feminist movement this is?

Feminists:

- campaigned to make default custody to the mother, and then they blamed it on the Patriarchal gender norms of care for children being a woman's job, when that's much closer to their own reasoning of "female creative force" which Patriarchy was suppressing for millennia. Before they got it, custody went to the father, because jobs were harder before the Industrial Revolution, so the only jobs women could do were either weaving, collecting crops, making soap, tending for animals. Men had the harder jobs of ploughing, defense against bandits and wild animals, animal slaughter, forging and blacksmitting, war, etc. Only after the Industrial Revolution (which also brought for men mining and factory work, which I remind you only began to have standards of safety when women began to be employed) you could begin to say "women were kept out of jobs, so of course they didn't have enough resources to provide for their kids alone".

- created models of domestic violence with men as the sole perpetuator, like the Duluth model and actively opposed Pizzey's idea of intergenerational instead of gender-based violence

- constantly only care about stories from the perspective of female victimization, for example in Islamic countries where they complain about the abuse of girls, boys are often abused just as much, but it doesn't draw in the eyes just as much and neither appeals to what they really seek, validating their own feelings, which, when I am most charitable can be healing from trauma, but if you do that, just be honest and don't pretend to be a serious philosophical movement, about equality no less

- portrayed marriage as an exploitative institution meant to suppress women for the benefit of men

- complaining in the 50s and 60s of how gender representation in university is unfair, completely glossing over how many of the university students in the period they were describing have done it because of the GI Bill, you know, they had to be qualified after they fought in WW2 ?

- hell, even sex is portrayed as an effort of males, both in humans and the animal kingdom to subjugate the females (in Beauvoir's The Second Sex, first chapter it talks of how males assert their individuality, even says bee worker drones live a life of privilege before their death, whereas everything about the female's growth and reproduction alienates them - have I told you yet how much I loathe materialists?)

- portrayed men as forming their personhood around the oppression of women (literally, Pateman saying being an individual is derived from property ownership which is denied to women)

"Only masculine beings are endowed with the attributes and capacities necessary to enter into contracts, the most important of which is ownership of property in the person; only men, that is to say, are 'individuals'." - Carol Pateman

- even today they promote such things, according TO THEMSELVES! here is Philosophy Tube presenting a Feminist philosopher giving the context for the reason for a man accepting his job is because "when he comes home, he at least gets to boss around his wife"

- oh and not to mention "men did Patriarchy to themselves, why should we help them"

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Back to the original video, on top of what it Whitewashes about Feminism, look at what men's rights were the first to come to mind: "talk about your feelings" and "now you can be more like women". Thank you for the effort, but no? I don't need to be like a woman, even if that's not stigmatized.

If you want to fight gender prejudice, we'd much more appreciate, I don't know maybe not portraying masculinity as arbitrary, meaningless and fake like Salari does ? Or, this is much more minor, eliminate the caricature of the man as a lumbering slob or the goofy father for which the wife has to be the mature one. But again, "masculinity isn't meaningless / arbitrary" matters more. Maybe that? Maybe that would be a worthwhile use of your effort if the most important to you is gender biases.

But have we heard Feminists talk about, idk:

- circumcision at similar rates to FGM, considering it's more wide spread,

- maybe analyzing why charities for men's causes always get less support, even contribute to them themselves

- efforts to increase men's programs now that they're under half of college graduates?

No. They either ignore problems like these or others, or want to distance at all costs from being associated with men's rights if they ever do it or pay lip service to doing it, and typical case scenario for the last one, they ignore how popular culture chastises men for not being marriage material for women with 2 degrees which want the same in their husbands.

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The funnies part is, 2 minutes before the quote I opened with, someone from his own audience said that "misogyny needs to be fought first before we worry about sympathy for men, sorry", so even his own lack of self awareness of who he is talking to is abysmal.

Also, 1 minute after he went "look at Feminism's definition and goal", so the logic "Feminism can't be anti-men, it's about equality" comes in. No. Feminism is not for equality, it's anti-Patriarchy, which was something they see done by men and self-hating women and it blames all gender problems for.

Finally, 2 minutes after, tell me, Alec, are ^those stupid reasons to oppose Feminism? Their own actions and beliefs showing how they're constantly hostile to both men and history and how they'd use any defeat as ammo to blame on the same problem?

Progressive Politician Goes Full MGTOW (Or Does She?)

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