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> Feminism is not about making men's lives more difficult or about cheering when men struggle. Most feminists believe that gender equality can benefit everyone,
by ajsnigrutin 4y ago
> Feminism is not about making men's lives more difficult or about cheering when men struggle. Most feminists believe that gender equality can benefit everyone, including men, by creating a more just society. It is not about oppression or mistreatment of any group, not of even men.
The problem here is, that in many places, we've gone past equality to clear privilige for women (and other groups, that mostly are not young men). In my country women can get a grant every year for 3-5k eur to start a private company. Up until recently they had to work less years until (government) retirement, got higher pensions for the same amount of money paid in (still true), and since they live longer, they get to receive the money for a longer time in average. For same crimes, they get lower punishments, they get priority due to hiring quotas (especially in tech), and in recent times even existential threats are better for women than men (eg. being able to leave a war-torn country or just not get drafted to war). On the other hand, there are many support systems from women, from women-only workshops, places, scolarships, sponsorships, to shelters, support groups and treating mental healt issues way differently than with men. Add to this a lot of media (both social and mainstream) propaganda how (white) men are the problem of the world, how women are better in everything,...
How should a young, not very-pretty and not rich men feel in such a society? They're basically worthless if they don't provide for others while being treated as shit by everyone while playing at an uneven playing field. I totally understand that more and more of those men will just say "f*ck everything" and remove themselves from society that doesn't value them.
- alar44 4y agoYeah but women get catcalled sometimes so it evens out.
- Karawebnetwork 4y ago> On the other hand, there are many support systems from women, from women-only workshops, places, scolarships, sponsorships, to shelters, support groups and treating mental healt issues way differently than with men. Those do not spawn out of thin air. Groups of people built them. In my region, there are many such projects and when you dig into their origin it's often women who struggled 20 years ago who then landed on their feet and decided to create support networks where there was none. Nothing is stopping you or your community from doing the same, except strict social gender roles which can and have been broken before.
- ajsnigrutin 4y ago> Groups of people built them And they got financed by the governments. Mens shelters didn't, and didn't get built. Men only scholarships would bring protests and calls of sexism, while women-only somehow don't. Sometimes they even protest against such things: https://web.archive.org/web/20220101141736/https://www.qchron.com/editions/north/women-not-men-to-live-at-college-point-homeless-shelter/article_e907cfe2-e3b5-11e9-9844-efde95673666.html https://web.archive.org/web/20220101141736/https://www.qchro...
- dragonwriter 4y ago> Men only scholarships would bring protests and calls of sexism There are lots of male-only scholarships, some provided by male-only organizations (e.g., fraternities) to their members. Some are even exclusively for people pursuing male-only jobs.