Originally Posted by protonitron
Sexism against men exists and has existed in history. I/Ele will have to close this thread if it degenerates into you asking silly questions.
You cannot compare sexism against women to that of sexism against men. There is far greater sexism towards females than males, and that should be our focus at the moment.
There are only two real valid points I can see for sexism against men:
1. It is not socially acceptable for a man to hit a woman, but it is fine for a woman to hit a man.
2. Women get child custody much more than a man does, but the logic is quite clear in this one, as the mother is the one who raised the child.
Perhaps he meant to ask whether there ever will be more sexism against men than there is towards women, but the way he phrased it implied that he was asking about any sexism against men at all, which there is. There are women who hate men for being men just like there are men who hate women for being men. And I see no reason they are not comparable, just because something is rare does not make it unthinkable.
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Originally Posted by Kyure
You cannot compare sexism against women to that of sexism against men. There is far greater sexism towards females than males, and that should be our focus at the moment.
Well you can add "have to prove that sexism towards males is a problem" to the list of sexism towards males.
Men have shorter life spans, work harder and longer hours and in more demanding industries, have less support programs and scholarships available to them, are excluded from rights conversations about their rights because "women are more important" (in the SJW community they face considerable abuse and prejudice), in practice they have little rights over their own children - pre and post-birth, they face considerable societal expectations for with regards to both behaviour, appearance and achievement (for example you mention "men can't hit a woman", which has lead to nonreciprocal domestic violence rates when a woman as the perpetrator being more than twice as high as when a man is the perpetrator). For whatever reason it's also seen as acceptable to mutilate a baby boy's body, yet it's seen as adhorant to mutilate a baby girl's - strangely I've yet to see feminists tackle that problem! From birth to death men face sexism.
I think maybe it's more productive to acknowledge that "sexism" is a universal problem, and stop brushing away the problems of one sex as insignificant.
If you want to prove that women face more sexism and that it's so important that we should ignore problems of men, go ahead and try. Start listing their problems and I'll see if I can think of as many that are of equal or greater magnitude. I'm giving you this easy out because it's the fastest way to prove a point, go ahead and list a few, if women's issues really are bigger and more frequent than men's it should be an easy challenge.
Last edited by ImmortalPig; Feb 17, 2015 at 08:43 PM.
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Originally Posted by ImmortalPig
Well you can add "have to prove that sexism towards males is a problem" to the list of sexism towards males.
Men have shorter life spans
This has nothing to do with sexism. Read up on why this is before saying this is because of sexism.
Originally Posted by ImmortalPig
Work harder and longer hours and in more demanding industries
Men choose to do this. They choose to be in the army. They choose to work those jobs. And if they are forced to work in a factory, they will be working along side women. Not just men.
Originally Posted by ImmortalPig
have less support programs and scholarships available to them
LOL! Where the hell did you hear that from? Please tell me the source where you saw this. Because that is totally bullshit.
Originally Posted by ImmortalPig
Are excluded from rights conversations about their rights because "women are more important"
There are men who think the exact same way. Probably more men.
Originally Posted by ImmortalPig
in practice they have little rights over their own children - pre and post-birth
This is the only one I really can agree on, and it's simply because of tradition. That is one versus hundreds women have to face daily.
Last edited by Ele; Feb 18, 2015 at 09:04 AM.
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