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Originally Posted by swinearefine

FACT: the world is misogynistic and male-dominated and men do NOT get the short end of the stick and there are not different types of advantages bla bla bla. There are lots of issues men face, stereotypes and roles they have to fit in to because of the whim of society. They have to bottle up their emotions and present a "macho" front, get drafted into wars (men still have to register for the draft here in the US when they turn 18), etc. But here's the thing: OTHER MEN are responsible for those issues! The patriarchy is responsible for the inequalities between men and women and for creating the gender roles they have been stuffed into, gender roles which relegate women to the status of the other and the inferior.

If you're not a feminist you're a misogynist, that's all there is to it.

You are 90% correct but ultimately miss the mark. The world is controlled by a privileged elite and we are ALL ultimately at their mercy. This privilege is one that these people are, for the mostpart, born into and has absolutely nothing at all to do with gender. Calling it "the patriarchy" is misdirection, deliberate misdirection, forged by these very people themselves, to artificially create a gender war taking the attention away from where it squarely belongs: the tiny number of elite who have the rest of us under their boot-heel. Women, men, dwarves, elves, every last ****ing one of us.

The fact that the most powerful of these people are currently male is simply a consequence of 2nd wave feminism having been relatively recent; women are starting to appear more and more frequently in the ranks of the powerful elite now. It doesn't matter. It doesn't improve things for any of us and never will.

If you seek equality you MUST stop being blinded by the flashing lights of the "boys vs girls" debate and everyone, together, must turn their gaze where it belongs. On these people. On these dynasties and corporate entities.

If you think gender equality is more than a drop in the ocean then you are distracted. You are buying the hype that is being sold to you BY these people (plenty of them now female) specifically to keep you distracted. They do not give one tiny **** what you have between your legs so long as you remain productive and work your hands to the bone for their advantage.

Feminism has been corrupted, it is very specifically controlled and it has become toxic. It will never achieve equality and, in fact, is starting to generate a backlash that will only make things worse. So what is the goal? Is it really equality? It can't be because no one seems to care if that goal is even being furthered.

I WILL NOT play a part in that game. I believe in equality. I hope desperately for a world where NONE of us are trodden on by those at the top as every last one of us are today.

I am not a ****ing feminist.