hardly surprising that Mumsnet is getting bad reputations from other forums for its open vitriol against quite literally everything! Eg; woman falls to death over cliff, somewhere somehow its a man's fault.
I've not come across this, can you link examples of threads where people have said that a woman falling off a cliff is a man's fault, unless of course, there is a man there to push her?
Domestic Violence, the mainstay of feminism and radical feminism fails to speculate, accumulate and publish a sound statistic on its true occurrence.
The British Crime Survey found that there were an estimated 12.9 million incidents of
domestic violence acts (that constituted non-sexual threats or force) against women
and 2.5 million against men in England and Wales in the year preceding interview. 45% women and 26% men had experienced at least one incident of inter-personal
violence in their lifetimes. (Walby and Allen, 2004) – however when there were more
than 4 incidents (i.e. ongoing domestic or sexual abuse) 89% of victims were women. The BCS is felt to be really very accurate by everyone except MRAs because it doesn't back up their world view.
As some posters mention these days women in their 20's earn 3% (?) more than men.
But this gap widens in men's favour after 30
The pay gap is something, there are however genetic pre-requisites to overall achievements and drive career wise.
You're Godfrey Bloom and I claim my £5. Or you believe in evo-psych, and I still claim £5.
The life gap is remarkable as it is something men (in part) have themselves to blame in that they don't have regular health checks.
I agree.
As someone who in the general sense of ideas (more women in politics and in the boardroom) supports feminism and its ideals there are radical people gaining access to dangerous situations (Harriet Harman) who subvert the feminist movement as an open attack on males as a whole.
Only for men who see attacks in everything any woman ever says.
It's not fair to tar every man as a possible rapist, every boy as a possible member of the future patriarchy. In exactly the same way its wrong to tar every woman as a housewife and every girl as a future battered wife.
It may not be fair, but, from a theoretical perspective, it is reasonable. Men have penises, rape requires a penis, therefore men go about 'tooled up' if you will to commit the crime of rape, this doesn't mean that feminists think that ALL men will rape, or even that all men WILL rape. Until society changes, every boy born WILL be part of patriarchy, that's kind of the point of it. Being a housewife isn't a crime, nor is being a victim of domestic abuse, so that is a false equivalency.
If Feminists and MRAs could open a topic together and look at issues they will both see there is something more than just men ruining the system. A collective group may cause a Fatherhood problem (these groups being: deadbeat dads or bitter mums blocking contact).
The main problem with contact after separation is that, while courts have 50/50 access as a default, the RP is most likely to be the mother, given that statistically she is the one most likely to have providing the lion's share of childcare until the point of separation, the way to stop this is to break down barriers to men being able to spend equal time with their children, by spending more time with their children instead of seeing it as 'women's work'. MRAs get very angry about this, because, for some reason, they see children as their possessions, and, to them, women are trying to steal their possessions. (and ice cream)
I recall a thread on here many moons ago regarding misandry and it not existing. What many feminists on here failed to account is that without misandry there is no mysogyny.
That makes no sense
Earth and everything has an opposite, gender is no different.
Gender isn't the same as misogyny
I saw (radical) feminists arguing it doesn't exist and liking it to early racism. When seeking clarification on acknowledgement of this it was refused and stated its racism that's worse. The reponse ended when the said male poster said the worst thing that could happen was that any form of discrimination was not acknowledged. The posters fighting him instantly went on the offensive against him, despite his point disproving the entire thread title and all posts agreeing misandry didn't exist.
Misandry doesn't exist though, for it to actually exist outside of the weird ramblings of MRA websites, would mean that we had entered a parallel universe and women were running the show, badly. Misogyny does exist, because men run the show, and they don't want those pesky women stealing any of their precious privilege.
The world needs feminism and the world needs masculinity.
The 2 are neither opposites, nor mutually exclusive.