PeonForHer
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I've never seen feminism support male issues equally with female issues. In fact, plenty openly admit that they don't give a flying fuck about men considering the common phrase within the movement, "what about teh menz" I have - and frequently, and with a depth that's sometime surprised me. Perhaps it shouldn't, though, because feminists have, in many ways, been there before. They know what it's like to be reduced to certain narrow roles that fit into a stereotype. They know, for instance, how oppressive it can be to have the demand put upon them to be willowy and beautiful princesses, fragrant and lovely even when fainting - so it isn't much of a jump for them to understand that it's oppressive on men to demand that they be fearless knights - the sorts of fearless knights who'll troop off and get themselves butchered in their millions 'fighting for their homes and families' in world wars, for instance. Oh hell. Nick, I don't know where to start with you because, in my eyes, your world view is so fucked up and at such a fundamental level. Obviously it wasn't feminists that sent off millions of altruistic, innocent young men and boys who wanted to be fearless knights to hell on Earth in WW1 - it was the powers-that-be. It isn't feminists, now, who are screwing your life, or my life - it's *still* the powers that be. But you've allied yourself, comfortably, with the righties and against the lefties . . . without any evident realisation that the powers-that-be don't give a flying one about your cause. Why should they? The men - and it's still mainly men, as I'm sure you must realise - have done very nicely indeed out of the prevailing attitudes regarding gender. Why should they care about someone like you? You don't bash them, you bash others at the bottom - those weirdo feminists with their boiler suits and funny haircuts. (That is, all feminists, according to the stereotypes purveyed by the fat old reactionary farts who run most of the media in most of the world.) I get a lot of your arguments, Nick, and I accept a lot of your evidence. But you've chosen the wrong allies and the wrong enemies. To me, this smacks of your being duped and, frankly, being intellectually lazy. This is why I generally have so little to say on your threads. You are so often a bit correct, but beneath that and at the same time so tragically wrong. First step: forget the Right, Nick. It isn't on your side. It thinks you're a dick and laughs at you. It will agree with you right up to and including the point that it sends yet another great bunch of young men and boys to get killed in some fuck-awful war - which has happened, and will happen, for an eternity.
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