Really? You saw how President Obama and Governor Romney fell over themselves trying to answer how they would advance the feminist workplace agenda from an "undecided" voter in Presidential debate.
I didn't see that. I also don't see what the problem with that is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaze#The_.22male_gaze.22_in_feminist_theory
http://it.stlawu.edu/~global/glossary/gaze1.html
http://www.slideshare.net/fleckneymike/the-male-gaze-laura-mulvey
http://bechdeltest.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLF6sAAMb4s
I think the problem here is you're focused more on the crew on deck...and not the actual agenda of the ship. Just because women are not in position of office doesn't mean they don't have power over those politicians. Women are 50% of voting population and tend to be more consistent in voting than men. Feminist agenda was at work at assuring Obama's victory...Obama is biggest feminist President we've ever had. It's stunning how many male-bashing speeches he's given over his Presidency.
No, the problem is that you're completely sidestepping the fact that it's significantly harder for a woman to be elected to public office than men. That's a very clear indicator of how deeply rooted in our culture misogyny still is. If women have as much influence as you say, then there would be more female politicians, period.
Also, if women exert that much control over policy, then why is it that we're constantly teetering on the edge of reproductive rights being taken away, and why states are able to pass laws that make it mandatory for doctors to verbally shame women for getting an abortion before they actually perform it? If women exert as much control over our politics as you imply, then you'd think it'd be easy for them to promote feminist issues, not a constant tooth and nail fight to the death.
Completely false. Go to a college campus that presumes men are guilty of predisposition towards sexual assault and conditioned repeatedly to watch out that "you're not a predator."
Yeah, that's not what I was talking about at all.
If a man sleeps with a lot of women, he's considered a "stud" and praised for it. If a woman sleeps with a lot of men, she's labeled a "****" and shamed for it. That is a very real and very pervasive thing in our society.
While you bring up a good point with your (unrelated to my point) example, you're still wrong.
First of all, most men have been conditioned by society to view women largely in a sexual context, and to believe that they are to some degree entitled to a woman's sexuality. That's not to say men are inherently that way, it's a result of misogyny in our culture warping people's development in a negative way. Because of this, women are very often victims of sexual assault perpetrated by a man. Studies show that one and four women have been sexually assaulted in some way, ranging from being groped on the street to coerced intercourse to being violently raped.
Most men who commit an act of sexual assault aren't soulless psychopaths. They're guys who, because of lousy conditioning they received as children, viewed themselves as more entitled to a woman's sexuality than that woman was entitled to not be touched if she didn't want to. These are the guys who fondle a drunk girl at a club, these are the guys who emotionally blackmail their dates into having sex with them, these are the guys who inappropriately touch a woman passed out on a couch. All of these things are sexually abusive and all of them are things that a lot of men have been conditioned to see as "harmless fun."
When you see a sign like that, nine times out of ten it's not saying "all men are rapists deep down." It's saying "our society teaches young men that certain activities are 'harmless fun' when in fact they're acts of violation of a woman's body. Make sure you don't go too far in the heat of the moment."
Secondly, when people
do say that men are inherently animalistic sex fiends that can't control their urges, that's a result of misogyny in our society, not misandry. That's a reaction to a society saying that men are the only ones with any sexual drive or agency, that they're the only ones who ever desire and initiate sex, that women have no sex drive of their own and are only sexual for the pleasure of them, and that society then justifying acts or rape that happen because people with that way with "well, boys will be boys."
It all comes from a culture saying that men are the ones who want to **** and women are the ones who get ****ed, and that's pure misogyny.
When female soccer player tried out for NFL to be a kicker for the Jets...did you see how her tryout went..after all the hype..she kicked ..9 yards...
Well, yeah. She was a soccer player trying out for pro football. They're not even the same sport. It seems like the issue isn't that she's a woman, the issue is that she tried out for a sport she didn't know how to play.
9 yards! That's abysmal. Why was she hyped so much in first place? Feminism.
Men are on average stronger than woman...that's pure biology. To deny this and try even the playing field involves discriminating against the talents of men. Of course, this type of activity will continue.
On average, yeah. But there are women who're physically capable of playing any professional sport. There are quite a few of them. And they do play those sports, foobtall, baseball, basketball, hockey, all of them, in semi-pro leagues, but they never have the chance to play for any of the big teams.
And since pro sports deal with physically exceptional people anyway, I really don't see how it would be "unfair" to allow women who are able to play pro sports well to play pro sports.
That misleading statistic floating around ignores normalizing for career choice. Men and women do not choose the same careers aggregately.
http://blog.heritage.org/2012/10/18/debate-analysis-womens-pay-statistics-misleading/
... which stems from the cultural standard that women are the nurturers and homemakers and that men are the breadwinners.
Which is still pretty damn misogynist.
Also, that link ignores the fact that it's also a result of it being more difficult for women to be promoted to higher payed possessions due to institutionalized sexism in the workplace.
Dude, men aren't a marginalized minority being oppressed by women. You have it completely backwards.
