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Is feminism inherently sexist? Anybody for human rights anymore?

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cforte0 · 19/04/2018 22:21

Feminism appears to only ever advocate for women's rights alone, even when we mention gender equality it is immediately presumed that it's an issue where women are in need of support and empowerment.
Is that not inherently sexist, solely focusing on the rights of only a subset of our species, why are we not advocating for human rights anymore?
There are at least 6 separate organisations where I work that advocate for gender equality and/or diversity and/or women's rights, and every one of them is focused on women's rights. Where I work females out perform and out number men, I don't understand how I'm suppose to be at an advantage because I'm a man, and there's not a single group I can go to for support as none of those groups are willing to offer me any of their services.
I'm all for human rights and consider myself an individualist where people should be awarded things on merit, but even when trying to pose questions in what should be a critical thinking environment I get branded a sexist and a misogynist. Without anyone acknowledging and critiquing my ideas, I'm personally attacked and disregarded, is that because I'm a man?

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PleaseDontGoadTheToad · 20/04/2018 00:10

And you won, men let you join the military.

Only because women demanded it. It wasn't done out of the goodness of their hearts.

This is radical I know, but men could have simply allowed women in in the first place instead of keeping us out.

Antislut · 20/04/2018 00:10

Yeah, I'm sure you talk to plenty of young women who up until a year ago used to be feminist. Really predictable bingo card eh!

HopScotchy · 20/04/2018 00:09

@antislut please leave it to another day, another thread.

NKFell · 20/04/2018 00:09

I doubt 60% didn’t want the vote because of wars, I think what’s more likely is the general acceptance that women were intellectually inferior...so pleased the men ‘let’ us in the end!

@greymisty we need verses Grin

LightofaSilveryMoon · 20/04/2018 00:09

Pissing myself laughing at this one! Full bingo card!

Antislut · 20/04/2018 00:06

I advocate for women. I just don't advocate for gender communism which is what some feminist do. I'm a woman and I don't see anyone taking into account my perspective. I'm not a feminist, therefore, I'm anti woman.

And you won, men let you join the military. Because they're evil and part of the patriarchy.

Greymisty · 20/04/2018 00:05

Grin thank you NKfell

R0wantrees · 20/04/2018 00:05

How about you just fuck off Antislut? and I speak as a daughter of a mother who died through suicide and is half way through a bottle of wine.

NKFell · 20/04/2018 00:03

Little Rhino, Little Rhino on the Savanna...roads(?), Got to keep on stomping onwards...

Antislut · 20/04/2018 00:02

Dod you know when the suffragettes were fighting for the vote a poll was done showing that 60% or so percent of women didn't want the vote. Why? Because if you had the vote you had to enlist in the army.

Women didn't want the vote because they didn't want to enlist.

God damn the patriarchy protecting women from having to fight wars where millions died. If only they had been able to fight and die.

Greymisty · 20/04/2018 00:02

Damit now singing Little Donkey to myself...

lunamoth581 · 20/04/2018 00:01

All the MRA points are being hauled out! All of them! I hope I get to read about Erin Pizzey's dog before the night is out!

Antislut, did you know, that in my country, women in the military were barred from combat roles until 2013? Did you know that only changed because women in the military campaigned to change it?

Greymisty · 20/04/2018 00:00

Bird! Donkeys carried Mary and have a song about them where's this rhino song if rhinos are soooooo amaaazing?!

NKFell · 20/04/2018 00:00

I didn’t assume it was a man, in my experience women can be the worst advocates for other women.

NotTerfNorCis · 19/04/2018 23:59

I'm a woman in my twenties. You sexist!!

Elizabeth H, is that you?

birdsdestiny · 19/04/2018 23:59

Nope I am sticking with my position that donkeys are bastards.

PleaseDontGoadTheToad · 19/04/2018 23:58

Oh yeah because women really wanted to leave there children and join the war and die

I don't think anybody did. However that still doesn't change the fact women have been forbidden from fighting in wars by men.

Perhaps if men had allowed them to fight then more men could have stayed at home and taken care of the children? Wink

LightofaSilveryMoon · 19/04/2018 23:58

Fennel tea, I found, actively evil, though. Gave me sudden, spontaneous shits!

NKFell · 19/04/2018 23:58

But it doesn’t matter if they wanted to go or not, they couldn’t so it’s a moot point. I’m pretty sure some women will have wanted to fight for their respective country though, I’m just as sure that lots of men didn’t want to. The rules were made by the menz though.

HopScotchy · 19/04/2018 23:56

@antislut a socialist? Get a load of this: www.quora.com/What-is-socialist-feminism

Greymisty · 19/04/2018 23:56

How come truscum changed to teascum? I must of missed a good thread there...

PleaseDontGoadTheToad · 19/04/2018 23:56

Men do the risky jobs because women generally don't want to do them

You mean like how men don't want to do the poorly paid caring roles?

The courts assume that the woman is the best carer for the child.

The courts tend to favour the child's primary caregiver. Nine times out of ten that is their mother.

Generally the parent who is the primary caregiver pre-separation continues to be their primary caregiver afterwards.

Antislut · 19/04/2018 23:55

Oh yeah because women really wanted to leave there children and join the war and die. Women used to go out and publicly shame any men that stayed behind and didn't go to fight. 😂

Greymisty · 19/04/2018 23:54

Have another Biscuit

Sorry that biscuitis not catering to your special man needs....

Football

Better?

ps At least we can all agree that rhinos and donkeys are important.

LightofaSilveryMoon · 19/04/2018 23:53

Despite the closure of that worthy thread: I still think fruit tea is naught more than a brief, transient wafting fragrance and disappointing but coloured hot water.

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