Some feminists have the nerve to claim that feminism was for the benefit for men too. Nonsense. It wasn't even for the benefit of women. Jenny represents many young women these days; thirty, single, unable to find a husband, hates her job and with little chance of any change in these circumstances. She's utterly miserable. So are most other women. Before feminism they would have been happy at home, raising kids and getting dinner ready for when their husband comes home from a hard day at work. They would have been busy, sure, but they would have been happy. Like their husbands.
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According to government statistics, one-in-five women who are currently reaching the end of their childbearing years are childless. In twenty-years time this figure be one-in-three. A third of women now under the age of 30 will never ever marry. Do women want this? According to feminists, they did, and should be dancing in the streets.
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"I didn't choose feminism" young women may collectively claim. Maybe so. But neither did any of us men and we've suffered far far more under feminism than women. Plus women like the benefits of feminism; the right to abort babies, education orientated towards them, positive discrimination, the ability to strip men of their assets in divorce courts, etc. They were all so happy to grab these benefits.
From Duncan Idaho, via Masculinisme
I wouldn't say that the men have suffered more than women under 'feminism'. It's still not the men having abortions, and I would venture that the women suffer at least equally from the culture of 'free sex'. As far as the emasculation of men goes, is it worse than women's natural roles being de-valued to the point that legislation reflects that disdain?
ReplyDeleteFrankly, I've sometimes been tempted to think a man thought it all up...!