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

[Autumnlicious]

In looking at the emergence of many political movements, one must ask what has occurred to create it.

With feminism, it was a culture that derided women in the work place. A culture that saw no issue with unwarranted touching and lack of subsidization for ingrained health issues.

With the men's rights movement, it has started off with parental inequity in Family court and inequity in punishments for crimes handed down.

Consider how many men are sentenced to long prison terms and even death. Now consider how many women, for similar crimes, receive comparable sentences.

You'll find it starkly different to the point that it is a media circus to sentence a woman to death for a crime a man would be condemned to.

That is inequity.

Another topic: male suicide. If the genders are oh-so-equal, why is it that males are more prone to attempt and successfully commit suicide?

Feminism gave us many good things. It also gave us Andrea Dworkin and the Third wave.

Men's Rights has given us notice that there is a problem. It also, unfortunately, has given us polarizing figures like Paul Elam.

Those who discount the issues either gender faces within our culture are, well, human shit.

Discounting Men's Rights and calling yourself a feminist is to ignore the very fabric that brought us feminism.

Inequity. Pure and simple.

I am proud to state I am egalitarian. I support elements of Men's Rights and I support elements of Feminism.

We all deserve a chance to prove ourselves through our actions, not immutable attributes.