(April 20, 2015 at 3:59 pm)francismjenkins Wrote: What issues are you talking about exactly? Is it the "white man's burden" of having to rule the world?I am talking about inequality that's systemic and institutionalized. For instance, the fact that men are often given harsher prison sentences for the same crime.
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.
(April 20, 2015 at 4:21 pm)Dystopia Wrote: Why the fuck should a group about women's issues focus on men's problems? Do you complain that cancer institutes don't research auto-immune diseases as well? Are you going to play the DontForgetTheMen hashtag? I could as well complain LGBT doesn't worry about straight rights.I didn't specify a group in particular, I was talking about the actions of some feminists and why there is so much hostility towards them in particular.
But you can't have it both ways, either feminism is equality for everyone (which some feminists love to claim) or it's entirely focused on women's rights. Either is fine, but if you are in the former group, you need to focus on issues which effect equality for everyone. That is why egalitarianism exists.
