The World is Focusing on Women's Issues While Happily Ignoring Men's

CrossHook · 2013-05-09T12:58:59+00:00

Young women like this give me hope.

rogersmith25 · 2013-05-09T14:17:25+00:00

With all the other men's issues that seem so obvious and important to us, I find it fascinating that the catalyst for people realizing that men do face discrimination is women-only gym hours.

I thought that it would be incarceration rates, or the draft, or parental rights, or education biases... but somehow people continued to justify that discrimination.

There is something beautiful about a seemingly-trivial issue like the gym hours because it is so benign and yet so cut-and-dry. The situation is unfair and obviously so.

Hopefully this will open people's eyes to the fact that men can face discrimination, and that perhaps it is institutional discrimination and not bullshit excuses like "video games" that are holding back boys' educational opportunities.

typhonblue · 2013-05-09T00:46:32+00:00

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This is on the level of dog-whistle bullshit. Men's issues are a fucking gym being discriminatory? While shitty, there are far more pertinent issues at hand, here.

fleabikini · 2013-05-09T02:19:51+00:00

" It amazed me that men had no real voice in mainstream media - despite the scale of their modern issues." -I'm sorry but this is BS. 70% of media producers are men. They don't have a voice? They control the media. Which is why it reflects patriarchal norms in just about everything produced by the mainstream. Men are the primary gatekeepers of mainstream media. Arguing that they're disadvantaged compared to women only proves he is ignorant about how the media works and how it has operated since its inception. How many female or non-white people enjoy positions of executive power over the media? About 30% so get your facts straight.

Truth? If you offer a women-only pilates class it is only fair to offer a men's only pilates class if there is interest. While I agree that offering women's only classes while not offering the same type of men's classes is unfair and yes, sexist, I think the author is blowing his "issues" way out of proportion and using it as a soapbox for unrelated and loosely supported claims. And circumcision? If he has a problem with circumcision he should take it up with the patriarchal religious institutions which created it, propagated it and fervently defended it, not blame women. Christ, we're still fighting for the right to choose whether or not we have the baby in the first place. For the record, it's my fiancee who insists on circumcising our children against my protests. I happen to agree with the author that it's mutilation, my man and I have agreed to disagree based on respect for his culture, however patriarchal it seems to me. And I'm a woman. Imagine that.

This kind of crap bothers the hell out of me. Not just because I'm a feminist but because I don't run around complaining that non-white people have more rights than I do. Because they don't. I acknowledge my privilege as a white person in a white dominant culture and don't deny that it's a racist culture which grants me those privileges even though I didn't ask for them. We come from a racist culture. We come from a sexist culture. It takes time to level the playing field and we haven't gotten as far as the author believes as he seems to be under the impression that women have surpassed men as far as equality is concerned which is unfounded rubbish.

Title	The World is Focusing on Women's Issues While Happily Ignoring Men's
Author	Imnotmrabut
Upvotes	157
Comments	47
Date	May 8, 2013 11:57 PM UTC (13 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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