fluthermucken-the-oppressor
Men have to sign up for draft, men have their penises mutilated at birth, men are told that their problems don't matter, men rarely win child custody, men are arrested when men are abused, men are abused and no one cares, men are raped and no one cares, men are objectified and they don't complain because worse things are happening to them.

but yea, you’re right, men have sooooooo many more rights than women, women are being oppressed because they can’t wear only panties in school and aren’t allowed to run around topless.

fandomsandfeminism

What’s funny is that like, nearly every problem you listed for men is addressed by feminism all the time, or is the result of the same forces that feminism is trying to dismantle. (Or isn’t true.) 

  • The draft is sort of a silly example, since no one has been drafted since Vietnam. BUT women’s exclusion from military service is based on the belief that women are too weak for combat. Feminism addresses this. 
  • Feminism is a strong advocate banning all genital mutilation. 
  • Men are told their problems don’t matter because it is the prevailing gender role that men are strong and women are weak. Feminism addresses this.
  • Men win custody more often then women when they ask for it.The reason women more often win custody by default if the prevailing gender role that women must be primary caregivers. Feminism addresses this.
  • Again, men’s abuse is often cast aside because of prevailing gender roles that hold that women are too weak to be abusers. (also interesting how I only ever see male victims mentioned when someone wants to criticize feminism. Huh.) Feminism works to address this. 
  • Men are not objectified in the same ubiquitous systematic way that women are in our culture. 

But nice of you to boil down all of women’s concerns to “we want to run around in panties” rather than focusing on our domestic abuse rates, sexual assault rates, lack of economic equity, lack of political equity, legal restrictions to our preventative health care and reproductive health care measures, and lack of positive media representation. 

And here is the reason why I’m so tired of MRA crap. I’ve never seen anyone advocating for Men’s Rights to talk about legit men’s issues on their own merit. Never seen them rally for black men, or gay men, or bisexual men, or trans men, or disabled men. Never seen them challenge the military industrial complex for commodifying their lives. 

I’ve only ever seen people talk about men’s issues when a breath later they use it to try and slam feminism. Because if you REALLY cared about these issues, you’d be fighting along side us, rather than trying to get us to “shut up and stop complaining. “