Men's Rights Movement

[Neo-Scholastic]

Has anyone here seen a documentary called The Red Pill?

It was made by a very feminist woman who set out to document The Men's Rights Movement (expecting to criticise it), but found herself actually agreeing with them. At the end of the documentary she says she no longer calls herself a feminist and is now a supporter of Men's Rights.

Anyway, it's on Amazon Prime and is an interesting watch.

My opinion after watching it is that both men and women have certain (different) disadvantages in society, and that many feminist movements are out of line in making themselves the victims all the time and actually being against men.

While there are definite concerns about the fairness of child custody, I see the more recent incarnation of "men's rights" as trying to hop on the victim bandwagon, since victim status now-a-days seems to carry with its own set of advantages - like making excuses for a lack of achievement and permission to whine for concessions. The way I see it the world is not always a binary win or lose circumstance. One person having an advantage doesn't necessary mean someone else is being oppressed.

Now in the 1990's there was a so-called men's movement - from Promise Keeper's to Robert Bly's "Iron John". There was a lot of talk about boys not having male role models to 'initiate' them into manhood. At the time, it sounded to me like a lot of know-it-all baby boomers preaching to the GenX guys about how to be be the men boomers failed to be as drug-taking free-love hippies. And of course you could pay $$$$ to go to a retreat, organized by said hippies, to run through the woods naked making primal screams. Dicks.