Now when you figured this out, did you ever considered thinking about what constitutes the "men's rights movement" that's always used as a comparison to "women's rights movement"?
Think about it. What human rights men don't have today or haven't had since women constituted their own movement for equality under the law, in the East and in the West? What rights the male "movement" had to win to become comparable to women?
It's not a movement at all. The whole thing is culturally a misnomer and a false dichotomy.
Either that or I am completely unaware of the oppression of males? Do share what you think about it now?
Of course. The men's rights movement has always been about demanding even more rights for men, or about taking rights away from women - in most cases both (eg around access to children). I used the term because that's how it describes itself - perhaps I should have put it in quotes.
It's similar to ideologcal issue of calling a man a woman. Male is the default in science, culture, philosophy etc. So somehow we have to respect their primacy by calling them what they call themselves? Nope. This is the example of how culture is pervasive and all of us often just go along to get along.
Those MRAs are just reactionaries to liberal feminism, and we don't owe their ideology any respect. We also know that this shit that was done to women in the name of "progress" (the fact that UK has 6 months payed maternity leave, and USA none, and Serbia where I live holds on to socialist tradition still and we have a year) is not feminist or anything. Mary Harrington said in a recent interview that she thinks women should take back the word feminism from the imperial corporate powers that use it to enslave us. I still haven't read Nina Power's book 'What men want..." but I'm looking fwd to it one of these days.
Now when you figured this out, did you ever considered thinking about what constitutes the "men's rights movement" that's always used as a comparison to "women's rights movement"?
Think about it. What human rights men don't have today or haven't had since women constituted their own movement for equality under the law, in the East and in the West? What rights the male "movement" had to win to become comparable to women?
It's not a movement at all. The whole thing is culturally a misnomer and a false dichotomy.
Either that or I am completely unaware of the oppression of males? Do share what you think about it now?
Of course. The men's rights movement has always been about demanding even more rights for men, or about taking rights away from women - in most cases both (eg around access to children). I used the term because that's how it describes itself - perhaps I should have put it in quotes.
It's similar to ideologcal issue of calling a man a woman. Male is the default in science, culture, philosophy etc. So somehow we have to respect their primacy by calling them what they call themselves? Nope. This is the example of how culture is pervasive and all of us often just go along to get along.
Those MRAs are just reactionaries to liberal feminism, and we don't owe their ideology any respect. We also know that this shit that was done to women in the name of "progress" (the fact that UK has 6 months payed maternity leave, and USA none, and Serbia where I live holds on to socialist tradition still and we have a year) is not feminist or anything. Mary Harrington said in a recent interview that she thinks women should take back the word feminism from the imperial corporate powers that use it to enslave us. I still haven't read Nina Power's book 'What men want..." but I'm looking fwd to it one of these days.