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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0Tsh3KaBgo
It's amazing how much funding and acceptance feminists get for whinging while a men's rights activist could only dream to get such a privilege.
When men complain about male issues, they are misogynists, end of story. When women complain about women's issues, the UN and big money corporations listen to them.
I wonder who is privileged here?
These corporations even support such claims of petty issues like explained in the video while there are male issues far bigger than those petty issues that are totally off the radar.
The dirty secret of any feminist who is a leader of the feminist movement is that they are in this for their own greed. While they depend on the never ending supply of insecure and gullible women who sucker in to this fear mongering that keeps the cancer spreading.
There are of course a couple of facts get in the way of most of your arguments.
Despite what you say men still earn more than women and own most of the wealth in the world. Men also hold most elected political offices and most appointed senior government posts, except in a tiny number of countries. There have been many advances but men are still firmly in control of most of the wealth and political power in the world. So much for feminism having gone too far.
For my part I would prefer to live in a world without set gender roles, where life chances were equal for all, the vulnerable were protected by those most fortunate and achievement was on the basis of ability. Feminism in seeking to subvert stereotypical roles and fighting for equal rights is therefore important to me as a man, as it is to many women.
Feminism means many different things to different people and there are certainly some feminists who appear to be more concerned with demonising men than promoting women. Contrary to the beliefs of some paranoid men however, these people do not have some huge hidden influence over governments or public life. They do not silently rule men's lives. There is no conspiracy.
Of course there are some areas of life where men have a disadvantage. In some countries, family law and custody of children when relationships break down is very skewed. Surprisingly this is mostly but not always in favour of women. There are also individual situations where men are disadvantaged in certain work-places or organisations, but this is far from being the norm.
Whilst I would not agree with every feminist and recognise that there are situations where men have a hard time, the overwhelming evidence is that the people in powerful positions are overwhelmingly men, despite years of feminism. This of course does not make every man an oppressor. Nor does it mean that every man has more power, independence or freedom than every woman. What it does mean however is that we are far from having a level playing field, and at the moment, on average, the deck is still stacked in favour of men.
Your statements appear to be of the woman-hating variety, where you are demonising women, on the basis that you don't agree with the arguments of some feminists. You just don't seem to acknowledge that if you want to split people into men and women, it's still men who on average have the most.
There will always be people with views that you don't like, but sweeping women together into a single category based on that or any other judgement just comes across as either misogynistic, bitter and/or prejudiced.
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