Thumpalumpacus Wrote:. It seems to me that MRAs tend to be farther right than the broad swathe of feminists are to the left.
This is actually wrong, they did a survey on reddit or something and the result they got was feminists are most likely leaning left but mras were a much!much more diverse group.
That aside, I'm not sure how women in US got their rights, somebody said they were discouraged in young age like "don't bother doing studies you'll just end up in the kitchen" or something like that, I have actually heard that being said as well but it was because the economy is really tight so the competition is very high and most likely people don't get anywhere even if they are highly qualified...not because men wanted to restraint them to the house.. just yesterday I came to know a young guy that was admitted in the psych ward, according to his mom the guy was really smart and everything (he scored 78% for his mtech, and got into the rank list of another exam he attended after his mtech) but the guy couldn't get a job, obviously anybody can get a job but a guy that has worked so hard will have some expectations and he couldn't get any good job, the poor guy went down a spiral and got depressed and stuff so he's in treatment now. So my point is "don't bother you'll just end up in the house" could have been said because of economic pressure and competition, back then every country was going through tough times so it makes sense, I'm just skeptical that happened because patriarchy, it's most probably more complicated than that.
Grandizer Wrote:Or is it really just based on select quotes said by some prominent feminists taken out of context?Just Google for awful things feminists have said and you'll get tons...and tons.. You'll get awful things said by mras as well probably but I haven't looked for it, like for example Hillary Clinton has said something along the lines of "women are the real victims of war they lose their husbands, sons etc" a mra guy wrote a response to that like "men are the real victims of rape, their wife, sisters and mothers are hurt" lol
