https://becauseits2015.wordpress.com/2016/08/06/a-non-feminist-faq/

Sorry for clickbaity thread but im really not kidding here. This is it guys. Check it out. Damn even print it out and distribute it

Use this in debates, post stuff for awareness. It goes from beginning to end, damn It even ends by saying why inter sectionalism isn't the answer...Its thoroughly academic, factually based approach that is not partisan or trying to pain feminism as crazy etc. Who is this fantastic writer? Is he/she on reddit? Identify yourself sir/madam.

So for a thread Idea is too post some snippets, quotes, or full articles and discuss them here.

Table of contents

  1. Key Points (TL;DR)
  2. Introduction
    1. Doesn’t rejecting feminism mean rejecting gender equality?
    2. How can you reject feminism when not all feminists think the same things?
    3. What is your problem with feminism, then?
    4. Where did you get this impression of feminism from?
    5. So do you instead think that men are much worse off?
    6. Are you talking about everywhere in the world?
  3. Privilege: Overall Well-Being, Personal Choice, Biological Factors
    1. Women are much worse off, aren’t they? Look at politics and business.
    2. Aren’t things like life expectancy and going to jail just personal choice?
    3. What about biological factors? Including for life expectancy.
  4. Privilege: Violence, Reproductive Rights, & Harassment
    1. Aren’t violence and safety a major quality of life problem for women?
    2. What about other countries?
    3. But it’s other men committing the violence, isn’t it?
    4. Women are disadvantaged in terms of reproductive rights though, right?
    5. Don’t women face more harassment or mistreatment on the internet?
  5. Power: Political
    1. Even assuming no large difference in quality of life, isn’t a critical difference between the genders that men are in power and in control of the system?
    2. Do gender issues have to be caused by discrimination to matter?
    3. Regardless of the reasons, there are still more men than women in these positions of power. Don’t they use their power to benefit men as a group?
    4. Does this mean that the demographics of politicians don’t matter?
  6. Power: Financial & Family
    1. You’ve talked about political power. What about women’s lack of financial power due to the 23% wage gap?
    2. Even if it’s mostly not discrimination, it still leaves men with more financial power.
    3. What about power in the family? Being the breadwinner makes men the head of household and gives them authority in the family, right?
    4. You haven’t completely disproven all of the power differences in these last two sections.
  7. Sexism: Overview
    1. What about all the sexism (prejudice, negative attitudes, and stereotypes) women face? Don’t we look down on women and femininity?
    2. Don’t parents generally prefer sons to daughters?
    3. How is sexism against men more socially acceptable than sexism against women?
    4. You mentioned that men have stronger gender role expectations. Isn’t that a result of seeing femininity and women’s gender role as inferior?
    5. Don’t insults for both men and women involve comparing them to women?
  8. Sexism: Male Disposability & “Benevolent Sexism”
    1. What specific sexist attitudes towards men concern you?
    2. Isn’t “male disposability” (plus other things that are seemingly sexism against men) really just benevolent sexism against women?
    3. But sexism against men is different because it isn’t institutionalized, right?
    4. Most of the people in power in those institutions are men (e.g., judges), so how can they exhibit sexism against men?
  9. Sexism: Slut-Shaming, Sexualization, & Rape Culture
    1. What about sexual double standards, like slut-shaming?
    2. Women are more often sexualized than men, right?
    3. Wouldn’t women be more open about their interest if not for slut-shaming?
    4. Don’t the greater levels of sexualization of women cause us to enforce stricter standards on women covering up?
    5. What about rape culture? Don’t we downplay, excuse, or even accept the sexual assault of women?
    6. But women are still more likely to be sexually assaulted, right?
  10. Addressing & Explaining Men’s Issues
  11. Aren’t men’s issues addressed, just not under the label of men’s issues? Do men really need specific activism?
  12. What is the cause of these issues facing men that you talk about?
  13. If men’s issues are comparable to women’s issues in severity, why haven’t they gotten a movement yet? Why don’t people recognise their severity?
  14. Feminism, Men, & Men’s Issues
  15. So the problems come primarily from traditionalist gender roles. Feminists fight against those, so isn’t feminism the answer?
  16. Is it feminism’s job to address men’s issues? Can’t feminism be about women?
  17. How do some feminists oppose efforts to help men?
  18. How do some feminists reinforce aspects of gender traditionalism?
  19. How do some feminists apply a hyper-critical attitude towards men?
  20. Are there any other things some feminists do that harm men?
  21. Does intersectional feminism address your concerns?

1. Key Points (TL;DR)

Here’s a short summary (but I recommend continuing for the arguments and sources).

  • It’s a standard assumption within feminism that women are much worse off in our society, and that gender equality is primarily about helping women.
  • This is commonly based on the fact that men are more common in the ruling class of society (politicians, executives, etc.). However, men are also more common in the underclass of society: homeless, incarcerated, early deaths, murder victims, etc.
    • Women’s safety concerns (especially walking home at night) are often cited, but overall violence victimization is not higher for women.
      • Actually, stranger violence in particular predominantly targets men.
    • Reproductive rights are also often cited, but women’s options to avoid the responsibilities of parenthood are actually more robust than men’s.
  • A common focus of feminism is power. “[T]he world of men is […] a world of power”, according to one feminist scholar. It’s true that most people in power are men, but we must be careful about wrongly generalizing the whole group.
    • In politics, a regular man has the same power as a regular woman: one vote. Women who run for political office win just as often as men who run.
      • Although politicians are mostly male, they still often end up doing things like prioritizing women’s health or safety.
    • Financially, women don’t actually make ~20% less for the same work.
    • In the family, some experimental evidence suggests that women were more dominant and got their way more in family disputes and decision making.
  • Another major focus of feminism is sexism. One prominent Canadian feminist politician has said that a “culture of misogyny” is “deeply-rooted in society”.
    • Sexism against men tends to be more socially acceptable.
    • Multiple studies suggest that women and femininity are seen more positively than men and masculinity.
    • Research has found that people are more willing to sacrifice men’s lives and subject male strangers to pain.
    • Evidence from adoption and sex-selection methods suggest a preference for daughters (in the West; it’s much different in e.g., China).

P.S.Im not sure, if it is same guy, but this is a fantastic mens right handbook, again equally well written:

https://www.reddit.com/r/rbomi/wiki/main