"Men's rights activists have missed the point of feminism entirely"

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'Let’s take a look at some of the key points men’s rights activists (MRAs) make. These include how it’s overwhelmingly men who are sent off to fight in wars, men who die younger, men who fill our prisons, men who are denied custody of children in divorce settlements, and – increasingly – men who earn less than the women who leach off their God-given rights as overlords of all they survey.

You don’t need to be Andrea Dworkin to assert that war-making and violent crime both tally more with a testosterone-dominated body than one fed with oestrogen. The list of wars started by women is a very, very short one – unless Helen of Troy is more offensive to modern online commenters than you may realise. (Knowing these people, she probably is.)

Regarding divorce, reliable stats are tricky to pin down. Women certainly win more custody battles than men – though whether their 'hit rate' is as high as 93pc, as has been suggested in the press before, seems dubious. It’s a stretch to imagine that the male-dominated judiciary is embarked on a campaign to deny their gender brethren access to their children.

Most importantly, the old chestnut of the pay gap – one of the central targets of feminism – still persists. Sure, in 2012 the Office for National Statistics found that women aged 22 to 29 in full-time employment earned a colossal 2.9pc more than their male counterparts, but that’s a sledgehammer applied to a delicate issue. For one, the figure fails to account for the fact that many, many more women than men are in part-time employment. It fades even more when you factor in the ongoing disparity in lifetime earnings, or in compensation packages in the professions (women earn on average £8,000 less than a man in law, £14,000 less as a chief executive and £9,000 less as a doctor).

These are all political and economic realities; areas where the arguments of MRAs can be refuted with hard facts. It's when they move on to the topic of sexual consent, however, that you know you're wasting your effort fighting people who are beyond reason.'

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