A rebuttal of this feminist comic: How a social constructivist view of gender hurts men.

Hey_itsmeguys · 2021-06-18T13:40:25+00:00

Seems perfectly reasonable, right? Feminists might use this line of reasoning to justify how they, "Care about men." Feminists fight for equality after all, don't they? As I will show, this is only a pretense.

Feminists have a social constructivist view of gender. They believe that boys and girls are born with exactly the same minds, and society engineers them to believe certain ways. This has been debunked on a general level and at the gender level. Yet this view is still prominent in feminism. Here's two outcasts of feminism talking about it.

What does this result in? Well, it results in a line of thinking that goes a little something like this: So all differences between the genders are a result of social engineering? Oh my, that must mean men are *socialised* to be more physically aggressive than women. They're taught to beat and rape women! Men keep each other from being as peaceful as women! Men are evil!

...and that's where the concepts of 'toxic masculinity', 'rape culture' and "Teach men not to rape!" come from. Everything men do and say is scrutinized to make sure they don't get any wrong ideas. I can only imagine the similarity to how black Americans are treated and the outrage if the generalisation of, "Teach blacks not to shoot." became mainstream.

So, the type of thought shown in the comic, while seeming good-natured at first, carries huge anti-male ideological dogma behind it. If feminists really cared about men, they would accept the biological differences between the sexes, stop generalising men, and abandon their anti-male presuppositions.

Title	A rebuttal of this feminist comic: How a social constructivist view of gender hurts men.
Author	Hey_itsmeguys
Upvotes	1
Comments	1
Date	June 18, 2021 1:39 PM UTC (5 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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