(April 20, 2015 at 3:28 pm)Tiberius Wrote:(April 20, 2015 at 3:21 pm)francismjenkins Wrote: This hostility towards feminism is reactionary (at best).The hostility towards feminism I see is mainly due to the feminists who seem to make it their mission to only focus on women's issues and either ignore or outright deny issues which also affect men.
What issues are you talking about exactly? Is it the "white man's burden" of having to rule the world?
We're talking about inequality that's systemic and institutionalized, not to be conflated with interpersonal relations between the sexes (which is something that cannot be legislated). So whether its reproductive rights or equal pay or child care or whatever ... these are issues that can be solved via public policy. In general, most of the complaints from men surrounding this issue tend to revolve around the sort of interpersonal relations that cannot be impacted by public policy. So yeah there's a very logical reason why women's rights groups tend to focus on, well, women's rights.
