Wyldfire, I PARTLY agree with you. Let me tell you what happened to me just last weekend. My girlfriend and I were at her grandparent's house, and were watching television. After about the sixth commercial that illisited laughs from the females there that portrayed men as bumbling, incompetent fools, and the woman as the smart and poised supermom/career woman, I decided to speak up. All the women there thought they were funny, but I pointed out how most of the television shows and commercials today are disrespectful to men, and how it is giving both women and men an unhealthy look at how relationships are supposed to work.
Let me tell you, they all looked at me like I was CRAZY! We got into a debate, with the women there all banding together and telling me that that is how most men are, and can't I take a joke? Sure, but it is not a joke, it is an ATTACK on being male (and white) that bothers me. After giving numerous examples, my girlfriend started to become upset and her mother angry. To make matters worse, her grandfather and her father and uncle just sat there with blank looks with their thumbs up their butt!
I was dismissed as being bitter by my girlfriend and her mother, but then, something took me by surprise. Her grandmother, God Bless her, stood up for me and agreed with me. She simply regurgitated what I had said back to the ladies and threw in some examples of her own. And you know what happened? Suddenly, they could understand. It took ANOTHER FEMALE to get them to listen. Maybe I wasn't so wrong after all, maybe I had some good points. Their grandmother was a respectable, logical woman, but coming from a man, they wouldn't hear it.
Wyldfire, if we are supposed to "not fight" what are we supposed to do about it? The reason why men are in this jamb in the first place is because most of us (read my obove story about the other men who sat there while I got ripped apart) just sit there and take it like good little boys.
Using feminism, women changed things to get what they want, to get "respect." Feminism was their movement, they fought back. Men do not have a movement to be heard. If we tried, women would accuse us of being "bitter" and not being "manly." You said it yourself, things are not fair for men these days. But now you are saying to not fight the ill effects that feminism has had on us (men)? If we do not challenge women to change their thinking about how they view, portray, and disrespect men, WHAT is going to change?