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longwayhome -> RE: Signs of sanity: Australians outraged over abusive "male privilege" lessons to be taught at schools (10/27/2016 10:52:11 PM)
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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer
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There is no proof that patriarchy is to blame for whatever you blame it on. Patriarchy theory is based on assumption, not fact. It's impossible to prove that patriarchy is to blame for anything. Anyway, as I have mentioned in the past, blaming patriarchy is like blaming the people who created guns instead of the person in the present who is misusing the gun.
Feminists use the empathy gap for their benefit while blaming patriarchy for it happening. It's like a feminist holding a machine gun and wiping a ton of men out. You can't blame the feminist because it was patriarchy that created guns.
Feminists claim to be anti patriarchy while leaching off the benefits of anything that patriarchy is blamed for.
I didn't mention the patriarchy. I just talked about the powers that be.
What I'm saying is: why bring it back to a gender thing *at all*? If men are suffering hassles that are specific to men - and I absolutely agree that they are, and have done, for a very long time - why assume that it's feminists who are causing said hassles? Me, I've never focused on feminists as the cause of the griefs in my life. Why would I? They're not the ones that have the power in society to screw up my life.
So much of what you say makes me think of two kids - one boy, one girl - with yourself saying to your parents,'You're giving my sister more than you're giving me. It's not fair!' But it's not your sister doing the bad thing here. It's your parents - the government, the powers that be, that is. As I keep saying, RM - feminism is the wrong target. You've made a fundamental mistake as to who and what is your real enemy.
I agree.
It is one thing to have issues with the certain versions of the feminist narrative (or in RM's case every word ever spoken by a feminist on every subject) but it is another to blame feminists for all the woes in your life. Political power is not wielded by a cabal of radical feminists. As you say "feminism is the wrong target", however distasteful he find their ideology.
Every so often I meet men who are consumed by their hatred for feminists and how the feminists are at the heart of government and controlling everything we do. They start off sounding quite reasonable, but they get very upset when you say things like "But men do earn more", "I know its getting better but men still dominate political life", and "I disagree with some radical feminists but they don't make a big difference in my life, because they are not the ones in power shitting on my head". For some though the "feminazis" really rule do their life (or the fantasy construction in their head).
Some of these guys are just old-fashioned or resent the power their wife has over them at home, particularly in terms of controlling whether they have sex.
However a small number are men who bad things have happened to, at the hands of a woman, the court system or sometimes even other men. Faced with their personal tragedy, they project their specific case onto the world and find feminists as their tormentors, instead of the woman who did them over in the first place.
I get the impression that RM is very hurt about something, and it seems unlikely that a global conspiracy of feminazis is what hurt him.
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