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I'm a man and have spoken with many other feminists over the years, and read a lot of feminist literature, philosophy, cultural criticism, etc. In my experience
by mafribe 11y ago
I'm a man and have spoken with many other feminists over the years, and read a lot of feminist literature, philosophy, cultural criticism, etc. In my experience I'd say that more than 99% of feminism/feminists have all to do with being against men. I'm having a hard time thinking of anything, actually, I could reasonably describe as not promoting this view. Maybe some radical stuff from the 70s, like Firestone, makes this hatred explicit, but these days the hatred is expressed more subtly, typically in legal initiatives that clearly disadvantage men, for example the insane rules around divorce and alimony.
- normloman 11y agoFeminism back then was different than feminism today. Most young feminists oppose alimony, since it assumes women can't support themselves, and is unfair to men. Feminists long ago supposed alimony when most women were house keepers, and alimony was important to giving them independence following divorce. I agree, some of the stuff from the 70s was downright incendiary (shooting Andy Warhol, etc). But feminism has evolved.
- mafribe 11y agoMost young feminists oppose alimony, Where are all those young feminists campaigning against alimony, for 50/50 shared custody in divorce, equally severe sentencing criminal cases for men and women, draft for women, etc? I'm not meeting them.
- johnny22 11y agobefore they be drafted, they actaully have to be able to serve in combat roles.. which they now can. This is a recent development in the US.
- justizin 11y agoNeither of you have possibly lived long enough to have a reasonable sample size.
- im3w1l 11y agoSample size doesn't scale linearly with population size, it converges as population approaches infinity. The harder issue is getting an unbiased sample.