Because there is an implication that men are being abused because of the feminist movement. If it weren’t for the feminist movement, women would not be able to vote, they would not be able to have careers. Just look at the title of your post ‘How radical feminism is demeaning to me’. It implies feminism took away men’s rights. When the truth the matter is, on the link the issues men were complainig about have existed BEFORE the feminism monvement ie
- more men die due to work related incidents
- men are sent to war to die
- men can’t talk about their feelings. I suspect it is because other men will mock them, and this has been going on long before the feminist movement
Now, had you posted a video saying ‘Society needs to give men their rights’, I would have been a lot more sympathetic
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Again, just because the creator of the video is a femisint does not make her a good person. When analysing a statement to make sure it makes good sense, I look at the STATEMENT not the author of it. If every time a priest made a statement, I listened because he was a priest, I would have a lot more sins on my conscience. I always listen to the statement and make up my own mind.
Very interesting points.
Going through them,
–If you do a google search for “workplace deaths chart” you’ll get a number of different charts showing an enormous decrease in workplace deaths since at least the early 1930s. I’m not saying that feminism is responsible for the decrease, but it takes quite the nerve to argue that feminism is responsible for men dying at work when the rise of feminism in the US has coincided with a huge decline in workplace fatalities. A couple hundred workers died during the construction of the Hoover Dam in the 1930s–we would never accept that level of fatalities in a construction project today.
–For an example of the scope of old-time mining disasters, see this list of worst coal mining disasters in which the fatalities range from several hundred to over 1,500 people:
mining-technology.com/features/feature-world-worst-coal-mining-disasters-china/
You’ll notice that the more recent ones are predominantly in less “feminist” parts of the world, while the really big mining disasters in the US, the UK and France all happened no later than the early 20th century while major disasters have continued much later in poorer, less “feminist” parts of the world.
–Likewise, if we were to graph US wartime casualties, isn’t it the case that there have been fewer US casualties as we get closer to the present?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_casualties_of_war
The Civil War and WWII were the high water mark for US combat deaths (with deaths in the 200,000s for both). However, once we get past Vietnam (47,000 combat deaths over 20 years ending in 1975), the numbers are much lower. The big ones after that are Iraq (under 4,000) and Afghanistan (under 2,000).
–So, I don’t think we can make the case that increased US feminism has led to indifference to US military casualties. Au contraire, in fact.
–I don’t know how reputable this is, but there’s a chart here showing global deaths in conflicts since 1400:
io9.gizmodo.com/this-chart-shows-how-many-people-have-died-from-conflic-1713625114
There’s a high baseline of death throughout nearly all of that period, but as the writer points out, there’s a dramatic drop starting in 1946. Again, this is hard to square with the idea that feminism leads to indifference to male suffering.
–Anglewannabe said, “men can’t talk about their feelings. I suspect it is because other men will mock them, and this has been going on long before the feminist movement.” Right. If anything, men have gotten more emotionally expressive during my lifetime.
Of course NOT. If a woman hits a man, it is much easier for him to dodge the hits and run away. It is not as easy for a woman being hit by a man to get out of there. What man would want the right to hit back ???