Bokanovsky
Master Don Juan
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Is there anyone here who hasn't wondered how things came to be the way they are? How is it possible that the naturally stronger, traditionally more privileged half of the human population has been taking it up the @ss from the weaker half for decades without so much as a whimper? Think back of your high-school...now imagine guys on the football team getting bullied and beat up for their lunch money by the nerds. A far fetched scenario? Perhaps, but no more far fetched than the social dynamics of today would have appeared to a man living 100 years ago.
Why aren't men up in arms over such systemic problems as anti-male bias in the court system, widespread abuse of sexual harassment laws and discrimination against men in education and employment, to name a few? Surely you won't find too many men who are happy with this state of affairs...Speak to just about any man in private and he will agree that the pendulum has swung too far the other way. So why aren't we pushing back?
The obvious problem that I see is the lack of collective action. At present, the men's rights movement is basically a loose network of online blogs that share a common discontent but little else. This is very different from the feminist movement that was highly organized right from the start. Feminists were not just some motley bunch of unattractive, unwanted broads picketing the White House with slogans like "I didn't come from your rib, you came from my vagina" or crazy British suffragettes chaining themselves to railroad tracks and going on hunger strikes. They had (and to this day have) political organizations, lobby groups, debating societies and serious fundraising capabilities. The men's rights movement has Rollo Tomassi and a handful of other guys like him. Hardly a fair fight.
I find it interesting that men will go to great lengths to organize themselves to take on other men...through wars, collective strikes, civil rights protests, etc. But there seems to be very little interest in organizing to fight female oppression.
Why aren't men up in arms over such systemic problems as anti-male bias in the court system, widespread abuse of sexual harassment laws and discrimination against men in education and employment, to name a few? Surely you won't find too many men who are happy with this state of affairs...Speak to just about any man in private and he will agree that the pendulum has swung too far the other way. So why aren't we pushing back?
The obvious problem that I see is the lack of collective action. At present, the men's rights movement is basically a loose network of online blogs that share a common discontent but little else. This is very different from the feminist movement that was highly organized right from the start. Feminists were not just some motley bunch of unattractive, unwanted broads picketing the White House with slogans like "I didn't come from your rib, you came from my vagina" or crazy British suffragettes chaining themselves to railroad tracks and going on hunger strikes. They had (and to this day have) political organizations, lobby groups, debating societies and serious fundraising capabilities. The men's rights movement has Rollo Tomassi and a handful of other guys like him. Hardly a fair fight.
I find it interesting that men will go to great lengths to organize themselves to take on other men...through wars, collective strikes, civil rights protests, etc. But there seems to be very little interest in organizing to fight female oppression.