Jill Filipovic again- she tries to trick readers with a reasonable sounding title

fengpi · 2016-11-06T04:45:55+00:00

I don't intend to read that because I find her to be tendentious, dishonest, question-begging and fatuous. Care to explain what you mean?

thrway_1000 · 2016-11-06T12:04:06+00:00

https://archive.is/52A29

ifelsedowhile · 2016-11-06T07:43:09+00:00

When Hillary Clinton started at Yale Law School in 1969, there was only one woman in the United States Senate. It was legal for a man to rape his wife

wha?

Voidrith · 2016-11-06T09:42:55+00:00

She seems to have an oversimplified view of why so many people are going to vote Trump.

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For a lot of voters, its not racism or sexism that is doing it. It is the constant stream of scandals and wrongdoing by Clinton while she was sec. of state, the large amount of evidence that she and the DNC rigged the dem primaries, the distrust of US political dynasties, and hatred of foreign/special interests buying US political favours.

Trump, as a person, comes across as an asshole, and has definitely said and done some distasteful things. But, he doesn't seem to have the deliberate evil/corruption that Clinton does. (Although I disagree with several of his policies; distasteful policies != corruption and illegal activities)

double-happiness · 2016-11-06T14:51:22+00:00

Men haven’t gained nearly as much flexibility. The world has changed around them, but many have stayed stuck in the past. While women have steadily made their way into traditionally male domains, men have not crossed the other way.

I find it striking how she locates the blame with men rather than institutions. For instance, when you walk into a school and find all or almost all the staff are female, is it any surprise men don't feel very welcome? I'm a former teacher, so I should know.

Male identity remains tied up in dominance and earning potential, and when those things flag, it seems men either give up or get angry.

Could that be because male attractiveness to women remains tied up in dominance and earning potential?

Men don’t need more masculine posturing or promises to restore them to forever-gone greatness. What they need is to make their own move toward gender equality, to break down the stereotypes and fetters of masculinity... Life really is better with more fluid gender roles that allow individuals to do what they’re good at instead of what’s socially prescribed. Every feminist I know will tell you that men bring much more to the table than physical strength or a paycheck, and that we would love a world in which men were free to be resilient and tender, ambitious and nurturing, expressive and emotional.

So apparently being able to walk down the road in a dress should compensate us for failing in education, getting the short end of the straw in DV and family courts, unequal health outcomes, higher workplace mortality, gender bias in the courts, higher incarceration, etc.?

I also have to question this idea that men have ever really been that restricted in emotional expression. Sounds like a possible stereotype to me.

Imnotmrabut · 2016-11-07T10:25:19+00:00

"It’s impossible to say whether a female president would help normalize female power and heal some of the rifts made visible by this election, or if she would so enrage many men that these gaps will only cleave wider. What is clear now is that this is the great unfinished business of the feminist project, a long-fermenting suspicion brought into bright light by this election: Expanding roles and opportunities for women cannot usher in full gender equality unless men change."

.... because all women, including Silly Jilly herself, are perfect and need never change.

The one sided Premise of Patriarchy that Jilly and her ilk peddle always diverts from the very reality of female complicity. Filipovic keeps making everyone look at what men did, have done and do, and is an expert in fooling herself that women have really never done anything. She plays the Blame Game one would normally only see a Five Year old use .... and when she is challenged over her bias she sucks in he cheeks, plays the innocent and never remembers that she is neither cute enough or juvenile enough to pull off such a Po-faced Defence!

Title	Jill Filipovic again- she tries to trick readers with a reasonable sounding title
Author	treeoflif
Upvotes	19
Comments	19
Date	November 6, 2016 4:42 AM UTC (9 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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