Even with a few Feminist inaccuracies and ideological points in it, I'm shocked that Huffington Post released an actual list of male problems - and named the Empathy Gap as one

tenchineuro · 2019-01-26T14:02:12+00:00

Wow, huffpost did not write this, it was originally a quora question...

This question originally appeared on Quora.

But they reposted it. Maybe because the author is black? idk

The OP is right, it's viewpoint seems half feminist, but there's some good stuff here.

Boys are commonly shown less compassion than girls from an early age (amongst other things, boys are picked up after and slower than girls when they cry).
Although a majority of women make less than men on the job; men are expected to relocate more often, work longer hours, and to keep a smaller cut of their paycheques for themselves than women, due to socially decided portions of obligations such as mortgages, romantic outings, and such.
Men are expected to occupy the most dangerous and/or lowest paying jobs and positions (waste collection, roofing and construction, truck driving, mining, logging, firefighting, most things related to war).
The pressure on women to ‘hold down a man’ is synonymous with the pressure on men to ‘hold down a job.’
Women are expected to date up, men are expected to date down. A man is expected to be taller, smarter, more athletic, and earn more than his female companion. There’s also a gender-specific ageism at play (preference for older men, and younger women).

svenskbitch · 2019-01-28T12:39:55+00:00

MRA issues are gaining more and more prominence and sympathy, especially on the left.

We should try to understand why that is, and especially - in which circumstances.

I do not have a good answer. But for starters, I would say the pundits that have been able to make MRA points in centrist or left-wing outlets have a few things in common. First, they refrain from criticising feminism wholesale. Second, they often ground their arguments in some basic feminist conceptions, such as gender roles (which I actually agree with). Third, they refrain from anything that smacks of imbuing men's issues with anything like the universality and systematicity that we associate with women's issues - they occur in specific areas (fatherhood), among specific demographies (less educated men, rural areas), or in cases where male victims form a perceived small but overlooked minority (male rape or DV victims).

On the right, the dynamics are different - driven by polarisation and aversion to the left rather than real concern for men as a group. That is why false accusations, affirmative action side effects, and outrage about restrictions on free speech are high on the agenda, whereas we see few on the right wing talking about gender symmetry in DV to take just one example.

All of this is better than nothing. But there is a long way ahead.

shit-zen-giggles · 2019-01-27T06:14:50+00:00

12/19/2013 11:11 am ET | Updated Dec 06, 2017

"old news" ?