(December 21, 2017 at 11:04 am)Divinity Wrote: People may try to say "Well, you're an egalitarian!" Not really. Maybe I will be when we are actually closer to equality than we currently are. But right now, we're nowhere near close. That doesn't mean I will dismiss the issues men have. But I'm going to focus more on women's issues. Not just because they effect me more -- and obviously, as a woman, they do. But because more work needs to be done on the feminism side. Because let's be honest. Nobody has ever said "Do you really want a man running the country?" But I've heard several people ask "Do you really want a woman running the country?" That doesn't mean I'll compromise on things like Paternity leave in order to get more maternity leave for women. But it does mean my efforts will be more concentrated on feminist issues. And if people have a problem with that, well too fucking bad. You don't have to like anything I do. You aren't my father, and you aren't my mother. And I'm an adult, so even if you were, it'd still be too fucking bad.
...and this is why MRAs exist. It's all fine and well claiming that feminism is about equal rights for men and women, but by and large, most feminists don't participate in any kind of activism for men's rights. That's fine, I don't expect them to, and certainly there are more problems that women face.
Since most feminists aren't focusing on men's rights issues, the MRA movement sprung up. Of course, then the movements started attacking each other, because reasons. The vast majority of MRAs aren't anti-woman, and the vast majority of feminists aren't anti-man, but the fringe groups are of course, the loudest, and they ruin any kind of dialogue both could have.
That's why egalitarianism is important. It removes the gendered label, it can focus on a plethora of issues including sexism, racism, homo/transphobia, etc.
