The Soft Shutdown.

aetheralloy · 2011-03-28T22:20:41+00:00

The stages:

1) Stage one: Men doing an activity. Everything is fine, the activity is fulfilling, the point of the activity kept, and morale is high.

2) Stage two: A couple women join. Everything is still fine, the women try to adapt to the group, the point of the activity is kept, and morale is high.

3) Stage three: Insistent women join. Things start to become political, the women try to change the group to adapt to them, demands of inclusiveness happen, the activity itself becomes secondary to the maneuvering, morale is there but unstable.

4) Stage four: Activity splits into coed and women-only. Men are forced out of the women-only group who begin dominating the areas, demands of excluding males happen, the coed group becomes unstable, morale declines quickly.

5) Stage five: Death. The coed group ends, the women-only group falls out of fashion and ends, the entire activity ends, there is no morale left.

The lesson here is that there are really two types of women involved here. There are the initial ones who are really not the problem at all, they realize the group activity is the important part, not their personal agenda. The problem occurs when women start demanding perks and to be included. The problem becomes critical when those very same demands start to be about excluding men to make a "safe zone" for the women. Double-standards about sexism come into play, everyone realizes the well has been poisoned, and the activity either dies or becomes just another area where women demand inclusiveness in men's activities while simultaneously denying men's inclusiveness in women's activities.

2011-03-29T17:32:35+00:00

Feminism 101: Womyn's space is a good and necessary part of feminism. Men's space is an evil and sexist sign of misogyny.

Title	The Soft Shutdown.
Author	feministtrollqueen
Upvotes	1
Comments	4
Date	March 28, 2011 6:47 PM UTC (15 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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