A female feminist's reflections on the questionable priorities of pro-feminist men's communities

mewacketergi2 · 2021-01-17T19:12:34+00:00

I think most of the conversation there is worth reading, but here are the most relevant and interesting bits:

However the difficulty I have with feminist communities is lack of willingness to introspect or address toxicity within the community. I have been a member of r/MensLib for quite a while now, and have heard many members discuss this problem. However, these posts are almost always deleted.

For me the last straw has been recently. About a month ago I made a thread discussing the issue, but it was swiftly closed by a mod and said hat the tone was too much about feminism and not enough about men's issues. To me discrimination against men is absolutely a men's issue, and discrimination from feminists is an extremely pressing issue.

After about 3 weeks I had thought about it a lot, and discussed with many other users. At that time I decided to make a new thread, being extremely focused on the issue at hand, and making it clear my problem isn't with feminism as a whole but only with sexism.

I feel I am at a great loss. I am not certain that a feminism-allied movement can truly address men's issues if their first priority is to shield feminism from criticism. I don't think that oppression of men is something that should be ignored. Although I have had many problems with the MRA community in the past, at the moment I feel it is the only men's movement that can truly address sexism in all forms.

(emphasis mine)

P.S. Please don't harass the OP with a barrage of you objections to the evils of feminist as a whole, – I feel like I did a pretty great job on that front already.

hugemongus123 · 2021-01-17T21:02:42+00:00

If mens movement behaved like feminism behaves it would be no brainer that it's not about equality. It would be at best man's movement, but more like a pro male misogynistic movement.

Alataire · 2021-01-18T09:17:20+00:00

Well, it's good to know that the 'slib mobs also acknowledge that Feminism is about women and only women, and not about men. Now we just need general acknowledgement by feminists that feminism is for women and by women, that would be an improvement over the current lies that it is for equality for all. It might make people realize that it's a woman's empowerment movement, and not a gender equality movement.

rreot · 2021-01-20T14:30:20+00:00

https://subredditstats.com/subreddit-user-overlaps/menslib

ObviousObservationz · 2021-01-17T19:28:38+00:00

Men and women both face gender norms that hurt them. Thats why feminism and mens rights groups are needed. Feminists just need to be better about not taking it too far.

Title	A female feminist's reflections on the questionable priorities of pro-feminist men's communities
Author	mewacketergi2
Upvotes	19
Comments	15
Date	January 17, 2021 7:03 PM UTC (5 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates
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