And as feminism has proved, you don’t even need to have anything to complain about.
Cite please?
Cite for the discrimination is here.
As for the number of police calls, about 25% of them come from men, and about 20% of those arrested are women. No national data exists – if I wrote a scholarly work I would check every state police department. Data for one state is here.
HA!
That first article says that a study found men often experience barriers when seeking help. Systematic or severe discrimination? I’m not seeing it.
Also, I’m not sure what conclusion you’re drawing from your phone calls/arrest stats.. It sounds like women are arrested in almost the same ratio as men calling the police for DV?
Most movements are initiated and carried by young people. Have I misunderstood you?
Yes, I’d say you have.
Of course there are. The right to access to abortion is a woman’s right, the right to have all your food, clothing and accommodation needs catered for is a child’s right. Equality does not mean everyone is exactly the same, it means each according to their needs. Needs of some groups are just plain different to others.
Does the UN declaration that access to medical care is a human right mean that women need to be offered prostate exams?
There are men’s issues that need to be addressed, for example as well as the ones already mentioned, some universities have a subsidised ‘Women’s Night Bus’, for safety reasons, despite the fact that more assaults and muggings are reported on male students than female. There is definite tendency to discount violence against men as somehow less important.
That said, I’m not sure the level of inequality against men justifies a full movement, but I do think that those who claim to support equality should call out discriminatory bullshit regardless of who it discriminates against. It’s one reason I do not style myself as a feminist- I don’t want to pick out my own gender as the ‘important one’ in any way.
I really don’t want to argue about it, as I am currently running on my third day straight with no bed, and thus maybe four hours sleep over the last four days. So if I’m incoherent, I apologize in advance. IMHO, the biggest one I can think of is the draft, although that one is fairly outdated by modern volunteer armies. Still, I have no doubt that in case a large conscript army was required, it would be men who would be drafted. There’s also issues over workplace fatalities, child custody, reproductive rights, family law, and domestic violence that effect men in a much more negative fashion then women.
I think the best way to describe it is to say that while the sweetest gig in the world is likely held by a man, the shittiest gig in the world is probably help by a man too. Sure, an appalling number of CEOs are men, but an appalling number of the homeless are men too.
FWIW, feminists have a problem with a male only draft, too. As this article so wisely puts it:
The fact that you think Broderick and Harris are feminist icons worshiped by millions of women shows just how warped and misogynistic your perspective is.
No, it shows that I have watched TV and read news in 2003.
Oh, don’t be coy now. You know as well as I do that our semi-quarterly Man Hater meeting last month we just voted these two into the Feminazi Hall of Fame. Sure, there are all kinds of wonderful women who have fought for the equality of all, but there’s nothing a feminist loves more than a murderer— especially someone who murders men.
There’s your problem right there. You might want to pick up a book or newspaper in the last decade. We even have these fancy things called blogs now, you should check them out.
I have read hundreds of books about history and a few about gender issues. I have abandoned my blog.
It shows you have an ability to misunderstand and distort news stories to conform to your paranoid view of women as “the enemy”, at least.
Well, I wasn’t at the meeting, but then, according to CCitizen, that’s probably because I have a dick and would have been castrated had I attended.
Violence and crime, for two examples. A woman can commit crimes and is far less likely to be investigated, arrested or sentenced than a man; and even if she is sent to jail, it’ll be for less time and better conditions. Women are less likely to be the victim of violent crime than men, while being the target of far more efforts to protect them from violent crime than men. And as for domestic violence, the woman is nearly always presumed to be the victim regardless of the evidence, and if she really wanted could kill the man without provocation and likely get away with it. And all of these are things that feminists fight to preserve.
Unlike woodstockbirdybird most women (like most men) are neither liars nor slanderers. Thus, I do not consider any group of people my enemy.
I have just stated the fact that Clara Harris had wide support from the media, and a considerable percentage of women and even men. Which is an example of the problems our society faces.
How about “Missing White Girl” syndrome?
But missing Black women are just as SOL as men in that one; which makes me suspect that gender is like race: the real issue is class
To that point, whenever I hear a (honestly: usually Feminist academic) start a sentence with “back before women worked outside the home” I can’t extend them further credibity. Working Class Women worked outside the home since the Industrial Revolution. Too wiped out to cook, they grabbed a wad of fish and chips wrapped in a newspaper: that was the genesis of that meal, not proto-comfort food.
No, there weren’t many women in the Professions before 1950, and that change has had immense impact on the dynamic. But that only proves that class is what matters. And affluent women are prettier: they have better dental insurance, eat healthier, and can spend more on clothes and hair care. Pretty = value, so when they are in danger, society takes greater notice.
The last missing girl case we had in Philadelphia involved a young black girl being abducted. It got quite a bit of attention, at least locally.
(The case had a happy ending because our little girls can escape their captors.)
The gender-flipped side of that is true as well, and has already been touched on. Many of the claims of “male privilege” are based on pointing at rich men, while pretending that the poor men eating out of garbage cans and the men sent off to die in wars don’t exist or don’t count.