Boys to men: Fathers, family, and opportunity

Submitted by Mastodon on Sun, 2015-06-21 07:40

Article here. Excerpt:

'It isn't easy being a man today. That is, at least, the strong message coming from professors and movie producers. Men are now, according to a provocative cover article in The Economist, “The weaker sex.” They are failing to launch, failing out of school, failing in relationships. The new world of feminism and globalization has pulled out the rug from under men who could once enjoy respect and a decent living simply by virtue of their Y chromosome.
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There are both generational and class gaps in the state of the modern male. Older men worked their way up in world of strongly gendered divisions of labor. But their sons have seen the labor market alter beyond recognition. With many more women than men now graduating college, this trend is set to continue. The pre-feminist world is gone—for good.

Well-educated men have been able to adapt more easily to the new world, and indeed have benefited on many fronts. They have more educated, higher-earning wives, which reduces some of the pressure to be a sole breadwinner—as well as boosting household income. Affluent couples have adopted more egalitarian norms about gender roles, especially with regard to paid work and parenting. They may not yet have created “symmetrical families”—but they are moving in that direction.'

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... didn't give men respect and job prospects in the past merely b/c of the Y chromosome. They had to earn it by being respectable and industrious. Even "back then", there were homeless and unemployable men who enjoyed no such respect.

Not much has changed except that feminists have convinced so many of this falsehood.

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Submitted by Matt on Sun, 2015-06-21 19:58

Here are 30 similarities between feminism and 'early' Nazism.

Feminism and Nazism have both ...

1. discriminated against individuals on the basis of their genetic code.

2. promoted the view that the targeted group was inferior genetically and behaviourally, e.g. see AH's Men Bear a Striking Resemblance to Slugs.

3. promoted propaganda that led to the targeted group being labeled as 'parasites', e.g. see AH's Steven Jones - A Parasite?

4. promoted propaganda that led to the targeted group being constantly ridiculed e.g. see Incredible Shrinking Y by Maureen Dowd

5. promoted propaganda that led to the targeted group being laughed at even when mutilated e.g. Bobbit jokes.

6. demonised the target group by labeling them as perverts and sexual criminals, e.g. see Put Up or Shut Up by Wendy McElroy

7. sought to break the target group away from their families e.g. seeThe Federal Bureau of Marriage?by Professor Stephen Baskerville.

8. promoted the view that the targeted group was responsible for most of the major ills in society.

9. disseminated lies and disinformation about the targeted group in order to further promote their own ideology, e.g. see Msinformation by Professor Christina Hoff Sommers

10. disseminated lies and disinformation about historical matters, e.g. see AH's Did Women Really Want To Go Out To Work?

11. used intimidation, threats and coercion to prevent their opponents from speaking out e.g. see AH's Feminists are nasty things.

12. promoted the lie that the privileged group consisted of innocent 'victims' of the targeted group e.g. "women have been oppressed throughout history."

13. demanded special privileges in the workplace for members of the privileged group e.g. preferential job placements for women.

14. discriminated against the targeted group in educational matters and in the workplace e.g. see AH's Well Done the Girls?

15. perverted the justice system so that members of the targeted group were easily discriminated against in the law e.g. in family courts.

16. arranged matters so that accusers from the privileged group could be shielded by anonymity in the courtroom e.g. in sex-assault cases.

17. arranged matters so that defendants from the targeted group had to 'prove' their innocence e.g. in sex-assault and domestic violence cases.

18. arranged matters so that members of the privileged group could capriciously define what, legally, was to be deemed 'a crime', e.g. where nowadays the 'feelings' of women rather than the behaviours of men are the determinants of what constitutes 'a crime' e.g. see The Real Goal Of Feminism by Antonia Feitz - 18 min

19. arranged matters so that members of the privileged group could capriciously define how the law was to view certain matters e.g. a fetus inside a woman can now be deemed by her - at her whim - to be a worthless piece of tissue or a prospective baby - with all the ramifications of this - regardless of how the father might feel about it all e.g. see AH's Rant Against the Child Support Agency. (Also sexual harassment etc.)

20. arranged matters so that the law punished members of the targeted group more severely than members of the privileged group for the very same crime e.g. in domestic violence and murder cases.

21. arranged matters so that members of the targeted group were made responsible for the choices and behaviours of members of the privileged group e.g. in paternity fraud cases where duped fathers still have to pay child support.

22. arranged matters so that members of the privileged group who harmed, or even murdered, members of the targeted group were shown undue leniency - and were often actually applauded for their actions, e.g. seeKiller given domestic violence award and AH's Loose Women.

23. arranged matters so that the law punished members of the targeted group severely for even trivial offences - e.g. domestic violence, sexual harassment.

24. arranged matters so that members of the privileged group earned a right to the property of members of the targeted group for no other reason than that they were members of the privileged group e.g. alimony, child custody.

25. arranged matters so that certain speech or attitudes directed against the privileged group were criminalised e.g. biased 'hate speech' laws.

26. demanded subservience to the prevailing ideology and to the government.

27. effectively controlled the mainstream media and the academic institutions and arranged for them to present a dishonest and dishonourable point of view in support of their ideology.

28. consistently highlighted and exaggerated the achievements and the suffering of the privileged group while downplaying the achievements and the suffering of the targeted group e.g. see Human Rights are not for Men by Melanie Phillips.

29. ran government-funded educational courses in universities (e.g. Women's Studies, Title IX) and in schools to promote the privileged group at the expense of the targeted group.

30. persisted in a long term campaign of hatred toward the targeted group, e.g. "Women need men like a fish needs a bicycle." "Men think about sex every 15 seconds." etc. Also see AH's Permanent Menstrual Tension.

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Submitted by ErikaLancastor on Sun, 2015-06-21 21:41

Merely ha-ving a Y chromosome in itself didn't give men respect, even in the past. Societal respect for men was largely conditional on being a good provider and protector for a family. Unfortunately, young men today are growing up in an anti-male culture that pathologizes traditional masculinity and treats boys like defective girls. This may be a better explanation of why many young men are foregoing higher education, marriage and fatherhood.

Note: The dash in ha-ving is intentional, as I get a forbidden error otherwise.

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Submitted by mens_issues on Mon, 2015-06-22 00:20