When Men Experience Sexism

Submitted by Mastodon on Wed, 2013-05-29 21:18

Article here. Excerpt:

'Can men be victims of sexism?

An NPR Morning Edition report this week suggests strongly that the answer is "yes." As Jennifer Ludden reports, after divorce men can face burdensome alimony payments even in situations where their ex-wives are capable of working and earning a substantial income. Even in cases where temporary alimony makes sense—as when a spouse has quit a job to raise the children—it's hard to understand the need for lifetime alimony payments, given women's current levels of workforce participation. As one alimony-paying ex-husband says, "The theory behind this was fine back in the '50s, when everybody was a housewife and stayed home." But today, it looks like an antiquated perpetuation of retrograde gender roles—a perpetuation which, disproportionately, harms men.'

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This is an attempt by a feminist mangina to co-opt the MRA story. It's kind of pathetic for him to say that discrimination against men is a reason to support feminism, but in this article he tries to do just that. I think it's a good sign ... a sign that feminists are starting to get seriously threatened by the increasingly widely discussed MRA point of view.

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Submitted by redwoodwriter on Thu, 2013-05-30 05:18

"Many of these examples—particularly the points about custody inequities and conscription—are popular with men's rights activists. MRAs tend to deploy the arguments as evidence that men are oppressed by women and, especially, by feminists."

This statement is dishonest. MRA's present those facts to demonstrate feminist claims men can't be discriminated against are wrong. Claims that often attempt to require "systemic power structures", all the while ignoring the fact it is government and legal systems doing much of the damage (in other-words systemic power structures). MRA's don't generally claim to be oppressed, in fact, they generally reject the idea that anyone, man or women, have been oppressed based on gender, outside of localized events (the genocides discussed in your article, or Salem white hunts, being some examples). And we certainly don't blame women for creating the inequities we face. We do blame feminist (feminism and women are not synonyms) for SOME of the inequities. Erin Pizzey in the 1970's openly advocated that women could be as violent as men in domestic abuse scenarios. Feminists chose to send bomb threats and kill her dog rather than acknowledge men could be anything but abusers, and women anything but victims. So modern inequalities in domestic abuse can and should be laid squarely at feminists feet. And while custody inequities were not, generally speaking, feminists fault, organizations like NOW have made it official policy to oppose any efforts to balance things out. They have openly stated, that most fathers who dare to contest custody and fight for access to their children are really just trying to continue abusive behavior against the mother and children... That is such an incredibly hateful thing to suggest, but it demonstrates feminists creating barriers to actual equality.

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Submitted by Kratch on Thu, 2013-05-30 06:11