Feminism is great for men, change my view, or debate the topic. Here's my take (please forgive any lack of nuance because it is already too long-winded):
I'm a MGTOW, and it's strange for me to say this, but I'm a supporter of feminism: I think that feminism, specifically women's "liberation", is the best god-damned thing to happen to men in all of history. Nothing has done more to change civilization after agriculture than birth control. Granted, women are selective in the application of birth control, but female contraception is still a game-changer. Women are culling the herd, and selecting for the most sexually appealing men. The eugenic effect of abortion and birth control has been greater (to date) than even the Nazis tried to pull off. Millions more fetuses have been aborted, or never were able to implant because of female choice. Truly, it is an amazing phenomenon of human evolution/selection pressure.
whether you like it or not - it is the god damned truth. The species is fucking with natural selection. Hell, I'm helping to fuck with natural selection, too, as a biochemist. And that's generally a good thing - fewer weak and diseased humans is good in my view.
Beyond the biological impact of the feminist movement, the cultural impact has been great for men, too: men are forced to adapt to a world where they are not saddled with the protector/provider role (as much). Bachelors existed before women's lib, but now more people are single than ever before. Some men languish - unable to adapt to the loss of identity, but others flourish. Some men are more sexually satisfied by women being free to sleep around "without consequences" (ha), than they would have been under a more restrictive, patriarchal structure. Some men are satisfied by the endless porn on-tap, and will not be paired off with a woman who would have otherwise married him in previous ages. Some men go their own way.
As a MGTOW, this is an unpopular opinion in my community, but; I'm thankful for politicized female nature [feminism] - for allowing women to be their truest selves. I've experienced female nature, and I'm not as naive as I was when I was younger about the nature of women (I used to put them on pedestals, and, frankly, I'm embarrassed by how I used to think and behave as a "blue piller"). Women are flawed - I never really got that before the red pill. Women are really flawed.
And feminism, supposedly, is about humanizing women (a laudable goal) - that women aren't delicate flowers that need chivalry and a man to take care of them. I say, good - I don't want to take care of women. I like taking care of myself. "Feminism is the radical notion that women are people", and they can, therefore, take care of their own damn selves.
Yes, feminism costs a lot of tax dollars, but it's cheaper than a traditional wife in my estimation. I'm more free without a patriarchy-enforced family structure where I have to work all day to maintain a wife and kids. I don't have to be head of a household bigger than myself. I make good money (more than the average household income for my community/state/country) and I get to keep more of it. Culturally, feminism shifts the cost/benefit ratio of relations with women: it's cheaper to have some casual sex with a condom and pay extra taxes for some bullshit women's shelters and women-only grants, than it is to raise a family. I'll throw them a bone.
Feminism, women's lib, the pill (not red or blue - but the progesterone kind) - has made my life better than my male ancestor's. Feminism has freed men, and it's about damn time. I like what the female agitators did - they now pay more taxes than they would have paid as stay-at-home mothers, and are a bit less burdensome, and a bit more productive. All of which are good things for men - less dead weight to carry. And when men don't have dead weight to carry - they do some pretty amazing things (some creative, some destructive, but generally amazing things).
It's never been a better time to be a bachelor than now. And, though I don't consider myself a feminist - I'm glad that feminism exists. And I'm glad the "blue-pilled cucks" exist, too - they're taking one for the team, those poor bastards.
Damn it feels good.
If you can, then prove me wrong - feminism/an aspect of the blue pill (especially from a MGTOW perspective) has been great for men.
(in anticipation of the argument from fellow MGTOW of men getting divorce-raped, or all the parts of the red pill rage: without the equal and opposite reaction of being repelled by feminism - freedom would not be attainable, and men would get stuck in a traditional lifestyle, and however much you might romanticize women being barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen - a 12 hour shift in the coal mine and black lung is not worth the occasional obedient-wife sex... plus, they were "oppressed" and resented it anyways, the facts remain that women divorced men en masse as soon as no-fault divorce gave them cash and prizes for destroying the family. They were never obedient - they just never had a better option. Feminism showed men women's true colors - that's something to be grateful for, since fewer men will make the same mistake of "oppressing" women with all men's hard work. Traditionalism was not a friend to men. "Patriarchy harms men, too" as feminists have said).
Now, unless there's a question directed specifically at me, I'd like to observe the argumentation.
Edit: changed whither to whether
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