Under the influence of third wave feminism, the concept of intersectionality, which Google defines as “the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination and disadvantage” has frequently been at the forefront of modern leftist discourse. It has been utilized to explain how, for example, a Hispanic individual with working class parents may be struggling do to both class and ethnicity, or how a gay black individual may struggle due to both race and sexuality.

Yet the influence of intersectionality seems to disappear as soon as men’s issues are brought up. Homelessness is clearly a class issue, therefore it can’t be seen as a gender issue despite overwhelming evidence that it primarily affects men. The prison sentencing gap clearly has racial influences, and so it can’t be seen as a gender issue even though the gender gap is much larger than the racial one in regards to the average sentence length for a given crime.

I find it fascinating that so many people are capable of enough cognitive dissonance that they can throw away one of their defining beliefs when it stops benefiting them.