"The Myth of Pervasive Misogyny" - Quillette (Quillete is excellent news source. From a staff of only 6 PART TIME staff it gets over 1,000,000 unique visitors a month [old stat that has since gone up several hundred percent]] - MRA is not just MRA stuff, sites and people like this are also MRA.

LacklustreFriend · 2020-12-17T14:30:39+00:00

This article has been posted previously here, but it's worth reposting. I'll also repost my comment on the article:

It's a great article but at the same time it can't help fall victim to the very thing it's criticising.

For a long time, women in the West were treated as property

Ironic, given at the start of the article they write:

In fact, this claim is made with such frequency, and is so rarely challenged, that it has become part of the Left’s catechism of victimhood, repeated by rote without a second thought.

I'm also reminded of the often used quote from the early socialist Mary Ritter Beard's Women as a Force in History:

[I]t seems perfectly plain that the dogma of woman’s complete historic subjection to man must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.

mhandanna · 2020-12-17T13:31:45+00:00

Many feminists and progressives argue that the West is plagued by pervasive misogyny. In fact, this claim is made with such frequency, and is so rarely challenged, that it has become part of the Left’s catechism of victimhood, repeated by rote without a second thought. The only real question is how powerful and pernicious the misogyny is. Real-world data, however, suggest a different narrative, complicated by the fact that men have worse outcomes in many domains. For example, they are much more likely to be incarcerated, to be shot by the police, to be a victim of violent crime, to be homeless.), to commit suicide.), and to die on the job or in combat than women. Furthermore, they have a shorter life expectancyand are less likely to be college educated than women. Although these (and similar) data can be reconciled with the pervasive misogyny theory, they should at least give pause to the open-minded. The best data from contemporary social science tell a rather different story and suggest that the very persistence of the pervasive misogyny narrative is itself a manifestation of the opposite: society is largely biased in favor of women.

kanray86 · 2020-12-18T13:52:43+00:00

this article should be read in every school in america

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