Feminism is super fucked up in a lot of regards, but like.
Men being upset that they’re not 50% of the discussion isn’t a valid complaint.
It’s not a controversial opinion to have MRAs, egalitarians and misogynists. Can you stop acting like you’re discovering a new element or something? It’s becoming rather dull.
Products are still sold to women on the basis that it’ll attract men. Even if it’s painful to us, even if it’s dangerous to us.
Advertisers sell it to us on the basis well, it might hurt but as long as we get a man ‘beauty is pain’ and that it’s super important because then we can catch a man!
So fuck it, patriarchal beauty standards kill women. But you don’t care, you want to make your cheap jokes about how we’re useless and need men to open jars.
And then you get upset when we laugh at you?
I agree with frostrune -
I will no longer mock, hate, or generally want to set on fire MRAs when they dedicate half their resources to women.
I mean, you guys want feminists to do that so why the hell not, amirite?
But oh wait, no, you guys hate women, oops.
rape culture means that if I don’t trust strange men, I’m a bitch, they’re not going to hurt me, stop being paranoid.
it also means if i’m attacked by strangers I should have been more careful, why was I out after dark, don’t I know what happens to girls on their own?
it’s when men tell me to smile sweetheart, look pretty, I’m here for public consumption.
and my tight jeans may be grounds for letting a rapist walk away free.
fun fact: most examples of heterophobia I’ve seen are misogyny . The other cases are just straight people feeling left out that they can’t fetishize queer people
if a man makes misogynistic jokes he can play golf with a CEO in his all-man club.
If a woman makes misandric jokes she gets rape threats.
Yeah, the patriarchy really limits what men can do but it rewards them immensely for sticking to those guidelines.
Male feminist allies who don’t side-eye MRAs are probably the guys who think that it’s only fair if half of our discourse is about how the patriarchy hurts men too.