The Men's Rights Movement: I Just Don't Get It.

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I have been looking into the whole gender equality as of late. I started looking into female rights activism throughout history (with the help of my girlfriend) then proceeding through the evolution of how it evolved. Then I went into misogyny and misandry and how it is seen in society. What I have seen is a mosaic of inequlities, double standards, and injustices. This mosaic I feel gives rise to these fringe factions, with that said we must look at what some of these fringe factions are stating.

To remain on topic, the men’s rights movements do actually have a lot of valid observations concerning their objections. We must be careful not to ignore their voice because the title. In fact the very thought of people not even listening to them shows partly and issue in of itself. Now one thing I must note here I am not advocating chauvinists movements nor endorsing their entire view points, so let us take a look at the observations they are talking about. I see three primary issues they talk about, Medias portrayal of men, Court system concerning men in regards to sexual, domestic, and martial affairs, and reproductive rights.

Media’s portrayal of men is a hot topic as the media does portray males, usually as dumb, violent, and/or incompetent. While this is mostly answered through the fact that the media portrays both wrong in order to increase sales. The solution here has already been presented as most logical feminists groups point to the fact that the media has a false image of what makes a “man” a “man”. So I think there is valid cause to make this known, however I think the solution is affecting both genders.

The Court system in my opinion has huge injustices on both ends and it depends on geography. However, for the sake of this topic I will focus on the male side of the issue. When it comes to physical harm, the male gets the shaft in a lot of cases. In the south where I live (which their views of rape are the opposite.) a female can literally go all fight club and put a man in jail for at least 24 hours. Also, in Texas a woman can use this abuse thing and mess up a guy’s life. Concerning sex and martial parts of the courts. Women get alimony (for whatever reason) nearly has a guaranteed chance for getting the kids, and the obvious taking half or more of the man’s material possessions. In terms of reproductive rights, women have almost a monopoly on this. With the ability to force a man to pay for a child, to forcing a man to give up the child to abortion (which it fine since it is her choice.). Now there is head way in the male contraceptives which I think will remedy this a lot and perhaps cause little bit of issue.

So in short, we should be equalists and work together!