23 ways feminism has impacted men in a positive way

7ravicus · 2014-08-15T14:47:30+00:00

Wow.

First of all, lots of posts are just feminist wins for females, with a "but look at how it helped men too" flair. Such as 13 (It enabled men to spend more time with their children), which is just a side effect of allowing women to work, or number 8 (It gave men some well-deserved time off from work.) which was again, made for women but because they law isn't gendered it also helps men. There's lots of points like this, where she just states feminist goals and then kind of appends "... and this helps men too!" to it.

Then they just take credit for other women's achievements. Basically, anything a woman has ever done since feminism came to be that involves men is a "feminist win for men," regardless of whether or not the woman in question identifies as a feminist. For example, number 3 or in 18 (It protected men's precious marbles during sports.), by saying that because feminism allowed women to work, feminism gave men jock straps, the computer and (thank god feminism gave us this one) TV dinners.

Yet more of it is just utter bullshit, such as point 20 (It demanded that the media change its representation of men.), which apparently meant feminizing how we are portrayed (unless we need to seem like a monster of course), although apparently allowing all men on TV to come across as incompetent is alright.

Honorable mention:

One of the most important lessons in feminist theory is self-criticism. Feminism teaches us that nothing is objective, not even science.

lol

anonlymouse · 2014-08-15T20:00:53+00:00

Benefitting the economy isn't benefitting men, because we're not the economy. It's had an overall negative effect for the majority of men as being able to expect 2 earners instead of one has allowed providers of essential products to double their prices. Now, you have to live with your girlfriend/boyfriend if you want to have the buying power you used to have as a bachelor.
Quite the opposite on both.
A drinking law in Oklahoma. Wow. Much discrimination.
A little easier. And that would go to the MRM regardless.
I'll give them this.
Oh hell no. The whole point of abortion is that it's the woman's choice. Men have no reproductive control as a result of abortion legalisation. We're where we were before.
Feminism fought against this. It would have happened decades earlier if it hadn't been for feminism.
Nope. See point #1.
Feminism didn't do this. They're trying to take credit for what they had no hand in. This goes to the MRM.
Nope. Still only men get drafted. That's the burden of war. It's not a burden if you choose it.
Feminism parasitised the civil rights movement, it didn't drive it.
Again, this is the MRM. Feminism had no part in it.
If anything the opposite, with more divorce men get to spend less time with their children.
Nope. White men are still specifically excluded.
Woman != Feminist. A woman doing something doesn't mean it's a feminist doing it.
Nope. Feminists were against men controlling contraception. And there's no feminist backing of vasalgel.
Feminism has no particular interest in gay men. The Gay community is what drives this. That some people support homosexuals and women doesn't mean it's all feminism.
Nope. Marie Curie's research predates the first wave. It was the 2nd World War that brought women out of the homes en masse, not feminism.
LOL.
Yeah, demanded they change the positive representation of men. The negative representation of men they support, and only the MRM has been fighting against that.
Feminism has been doing zero here. In fact, they can't even show an example of someone else's work that they can co-opt.
This has done the opposite of help.
This was hardly the fight of feminism. That one feminist threw her hat in on the issue says nothing.

sir_wankalot_here · 2014-08-15T15:35:16+00:00

Feminism has helped men, just not in anyways it mentioned in the article.

Enabled women to screw BB men over better which provides more opportunity for AF.
Pussified most of the male population, leaving more opportunity for AF
easy for AF to get BB to raise his bastard children.

Feel free to add more reasons :-)

DukeHollywood · 2014-08-15T15:00:44+00:00

I fundamentally understand why women are going to be feminists but the thing that gets under my skin the most is when they claim it's good for men too. Just be honest about it.

hawkster9542 · 2014-08-15T20:51:15+00:00

The one way I can think of where it has TRULY helped is that it has provided an instant dead-giveaway to the kinds of women you don't want involved in your life.

If I hear "I'm a feminist" from a girl I'm interested in it's an instant "Next", no questions asked. Saves me a ton of trouble.

unreservedname · 2014-08-16T07:08:06+00:00

(5) It expanded the possibility of more sexy time opportunities.

Sure, if you are in the top 20 percent of men. If you're not then you get to eventually marry a lady who has had 100 miles of pipe laid into her over the past decade.

mordanus · 2014-08-16T09:47:18+00:00

women also invented TV dinners

Nope. For some reason people like to claim that women invented all sorts of shit but the actual list of women's inventions is really really small.

http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/tvdinner.html

the first computer

Swing and a miss again.

http://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/inventions/who-invented-the-computer.htm

and Jell-O

Wrong again. Pearl B. Wait is the creator of Jell-O and yes that's a dude. The first to patent a gelatin dessert was a guy named peter cooper.

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bljello.htm

I also can't find any record of the inventor of the jockstrap to be woman. It was invented by someone named C. F. Bennett and I can't see anything that decides a gender on that so I'm going to call that one bullshit too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jockstrap

Title	23 ways feminism has impacted men in a positive way
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