When women turn on women: My response to Miranda Devine

Submitted by Mastodon on Tue, 2015-03-17 15:15

Article here. Excerpt:

'Devine complained that International Women’s Day descended into a festival of man bashing. Poor men. In Australia one woman every week is murdered by a man. Seventy per cent of the world’s poorest are women. Women and girls are trafficked shamelessly. Women get paid less for the same work. Women should be furious and should demand better action for themselves and their children.

Why is it unacceptable to complain about men on International Women’s Day? Men are the problem. The solution involves women having equal representation at the highest levels of all of our institutions and how we achieve that is the issue that started this debate.'

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Addressing not just IWD and what it implies, but this article's a case study in feminism at perhaps not its rudest, then at least it competes.

So, men ARE the problem. At least until the air conditioning breaks down, or the plumbing needs fixing, etc. I wonder if the author has any inkling, despite being an MD, that even aside from the fact her father was a man, it's unlikely she'd've lived to adulthood without the security, innovations, and medicines men invented. The civilization she lives in that allows her to live in the safety, comfort, and no small amount of affluence that wouldn't exist without the problematic people she is kvetching about.

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Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2015-03-20 04:22