A scientist's view: equality, feminism and men's rights

Submitted by Mastodon on Sun, 2013-07-21 19:48

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'Recently scientist Laura Waters wrote a piece explaining “why I’m an equalist and not a feminist.” Molecular biologist and feminist Andrew Holding responds.

The world is against men. This week a man was turned away from Legoland for not having a child, apparently to protect the families and children that visit. Men are not allowed to sit next to unaccompanied children on planes because apparently they’re all paedophiles-in-waiting. I’ve had my own experience of someone alerting the whole of John Lewis that my daughter was abandoned, because she wasn’t near someone who looked like a mother. Then there’s the old issue that only 8% of children in single parent families are with their fathers. Perhaps all this contributes to high suicide rates in young men. So we need equality not feminism? I don’t agree.
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So what about single fathers, young men committing suicide, or suggestions that every man is some kind of Schroedinger’s paedophile? The answer to these problems is more feminism.

Feminism fights patriarchy. It’s this system that is responsible for the fallacy that women need to be mothers in place of men; a lie that can cost fathers their children and women their lives. It places unreasonable expectations on young men, leaving them ill-equipped for the modern world and leading to an epidemic of mental health issues. It runs the entire country, and those that gain from it would prefer that women don’t stand together for their rights because they have so much to lose.'

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"When I was born, my father could rape my mother. Legally. "

And your mother could likewise force your father to have sex against his will. legally. Difference now is, your mother still can. And if your father resists, she can claim his physical resistance as abuse, or she can divorce him and sue him for distress caused by a failure of your fathr to perform his marital duties. and if she does rape him and gets pregnant when he didn't want another, there is nothing he can do about it. And I ued the term I used because, rape requires the victim to be penetrated by the attacker, meaning men can be attacked by women and never be raped, not because they aren't being forced to have sex, but because men don't matter as victims. Nobody cares, including you.

"If you think feminism is a dirty word, or some kind of female ‘supremacist’ movement, you’ve been had."

Sure, because it's not possible that it is you who has been misinformed. PS, thinking feminism is a dirty word is not the same as being anti-equality. It's this claim to monopoly over equality, and attempt to paint any opposition as anti-equality, that shows feminism for it's true self. When it refuses to meet criticism with anything more than tired rhetoric and attempts to shame, what does it really stand for?

"There is no power structure in place – and never has been – that causes men to be systematically disadvantaged compared to women"

If you truly believe this is the case, when Julia Gillard in Australia used her influence to eliminate efforts to have equal parenting time post divorce by making courts automatially accepts any accusation of abuse against men, while simultaneously ensuring false accusations by women could not be held against them in any way. Sure. When harriat harman has opposed equal parental leave for men, tony blair has denied there is any discrepancy in family courts, and other labor ministers are claiming women should be given training instead of jailtime when they commit crimes, and you to pretend there is no power with influence pushing a female privileged/anti-male agenda. This outright denial of reality demonstrates you don't want to know the truth, that you are comfortable in your dogma, and that this post will likely never see the light of day.

"Andrew Holding (@AndrewHolding) is the father of two amazing children, who happen to have four X chromosomes between them."

Not surprised. you have no son's of your own, so a society of female supremacy only benefits your daughters.

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Submitted by Kratch on Mon, 2013-07-22 02:41