OP/ED RANT... "You live in your parent's basment"

[thesummerqueen]

Summerqueen, do you think it is valid to speak up about men's rights issues / injustices / sexism faced by men?

Just asking what your position is on this.

For example, would you consider me a misogynist if I were to say "It's about when they turn into douchecopters because you aren't paying their vagina the respect they think it deserves."

I fully allow that there are a lot of injustices placed on men as a result of genderizing of roles in society.

I do not, however, accept that men have a worse lot than women, for several reasons, and I think that raising women up - not above men, but making them equal - and stopping this bullshit of feminizing things considered "weak" or "emotional" and thus associating femininity with weakness and emotion only helps men.

If you need an example, I find it absolutely atrocious that I had to take steps to handle my boyfriend's near-stalker because people laughed at the emotional abuse and harassment she was heaping on him. Because she's a girl, right? So how could she really be bothering him? No. Abuse is fucking abuse. Just because you're a man doesn't mean you have to have your emotions ignored or be told to "man up" when someone is harassing you.

But that doesn't change the fact that the vast majority of abusers and attackers and harassers are men perpetrated against women. Particularly online where anonymity lends a certain amount of protection.

I also recognize that there are women who claim to lead or represent feminism in some capacity and are outright batshit crazy. That doesn't mean that feminism is bad, nor does it negate the statistics of how women are treated.

There are far more MRA's than there are women who outright hate men and want them subjugated.